Black Quote by Rebecca Traister

Mr. Cosby wanted to do a show not about an upper-middle-class black family, but an upper-middle-class family that happened to be black. Though it…

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner

I can't negate the theory that the Huxtables on 'The Cosby Show' may have helped pave the way for the Obama family. People enjoyed…

— Bill Cosby

White people loved 'The Cosby Show,' especially liberal white people. They loved it because it was a great, funny, well - written, and beautifully…

— Rebecca Traister

The Huxtables laughed and bonded and debated and lip-synced. They were glamorous and simple and extraordinarily human. And affluent. And educated. And so many…

— Wesley Morris

I don't necessarily believe that 'The Cosby Show' should disappear as a cultural reference, but it is. That's sad to me. I understand why.…

— Kenya Barris

“Our neighbors were so excited when a black family moved in that they got them a welcome basket with the first three seasons of…

— Flynn Meaney

When I think of black television and history, I always use 'The Cosby Show' as the bar.

— Wendy Raquel Robinson

Scores of African-Americans have written both appreciatively and critically about what 'The Cosby Show' meant to them over the years.

— Rebecca Traister

I remember 'The Cosby Show,' but that was something completely different. Comedy. There was a lightness to it and a sort of unrealistic perfection.

— Corey Hawkins

When 'The Cosby Show' came out, and everyone was up in arms about 'The Cosby Show' and that it was reflecting a world that…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

In 1965, Cosby had become the first black man ever to star in a prime-time television show; he was conscious enough of his non-dissolved,…

— Rebecca Traister

Most of black America is in housing projects, without jobs, living on welfare. And this is not the case in 'The Cosby Show,' because…

— August Wilson