Black Quote by Regina King Download Open image “"Southland" was not written for a black woman.” — Regina King ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Black Black women Writing Written
I am not defined as a black writer in the Caribbean, but as soon as I go to America or the U.K., my place… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I didn't want to write a 'black' book because black characters are a tough sell. — Christopher Priest Copy Share Image
In fact, some reviewers have said that as they got into the story they forgot that the protagonist is a black woman. They were… — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
. . . what happened, of course, was that I was writing a play set in the 1940's that was supposed to be somehow… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I realized with Broadway everything written for black people is usually written in the past, and I'm kind of a contemporary guy. I don't… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
There haven't been enough profound things written about what being black means and what a black character is. Nobody knows. — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I wrote myself… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I started writing because I got so frustrated that there weren't enough plays that had roles for young black women in them. — Katori Hall Copy Share Image
It has been very rare to see a black woman as a protagonist. And also as three-dimensional people - mathematicians, mothers, wives, complicated people,… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
I learned a lot from my Mom. My favorite lesson: remember there is no such thing as a certain way to parent and to… — Regina King Copy Share Image
The good news for me is that I have an amazing team behind me, and they've been with me for 20 years now -… — Regina King Copy Share Image
My father is still so much a part of me - from my physique and fast metabolism, which I'm so thankful for now, to… — Regina King Copy Share Image
I can work inside the boundaries of Erika Murphy, or whoever the character is. It's fun to create somebody that's not you, that doesn't… — Regina King Copy Share Image
It's kind of crazy to think that I've now been divorced longer than I was married, but I appreciate the journey, because it brought… — Regina King Copy Share Image
People love to see themselves on screen in a way that makes sense and seems on point. — Regina King Copy Share Image
When you look at "American Crime" and you have the character Terri LaCroix is a pharmaceutical executive - why does that character always have… — Regina King Copy Share Image
Divorce is the hardest obstacle I've had to overcome in my life. I would like to believe that most people don't get married anticipating divorce. When I reached that crossroad, I felt like such a failure. After years of therapy together, I realized that staying together was emotionally destructive. My husband didn't want the divorce, but I did. So there… — Regina King Copy Share
I want to be around to see my son grow up and to enjoy my grandkids, which means I need to make my health… — Regina King Copy Share Image
If you have the opportunity for your art to meet activism, you shouldn't pass that up when it comes your way. — Regina King Copy Share Image
If your woman is asleep every time you get home, she's just really tired. Of you. — Regina King Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
When you go to a club it's not about being black or white or heavy or thick. I'm shaking my ass because I want… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone twice your size who wants to pound you into the earth - it feels as if you're being injected with darkness. It's like black water as cold as ice settling in your body where your blood… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share
The term "black metal" has become a lot looser, or can include a larger range of sounds and extra-musical aesthetics, not just Satan and… — Colin Marston Copy Share Image
We have to build our own power. We have to win every single political office we can, where we have a majority of black people... The question for black people is not, when is the white man going to give us our rights, or when is he going to give us good education for our children, or when is he… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt - until recently... and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor,… — Gore Vidal Copy Share
Black music has always known, and not been afraid to acknowledge just how high the stakes of Black thought are. To summarize the final soliloquy of Clay, the protagonist in LeRoi Jones’ (aka Amiri Baraka’s) play Dutchman. You’d better be glad Charlie Parker could play him some horn and Bessie Smith could sing, because if they didn’t make music they… — Frank B. Wilderson III Copy Share
Hollywood is so fixated on keeping it that way because it's generating the buzz, but that representation isn't right. I definitely feel like it's getting better - it's not only for blacks, but for people that are of all different skin colors. It is very important that black independent films get seen. We need to start getting used to black… — John Boyega Copy Share
