Behavior Quote by Roger Ross Williams

When I decided to make 'Blackface,' a short film about Black Pete, I had little knowledge of the giant cesspool of hate I was…

— Roger Ross Williams

It's barely OK for me to be dressed up as a black guy. But part of me kind of enjoys provoking people.

— Chris Lilley

It was just really exciting to see dark people in white people's clothing, or what is perceived as white people garb.

— Okieriete Onaodowan

He[Michael Jackson] had a joy in being alive. There was a joy you felt of him on the stage and making us not just…

— Cornel West

Because I think it's so easy to look at someone, regardless of where they grew up, where they came from, the language that they…

— Simu Liu

Violence, and evil, doesn't always come dressed in black, and it doesn't always look like Charles Manson. Nor does it always come to us…

— Derrick Jensen

I generally wear a lot of black clothes, and I think that comes from wanting to be as neutral as possible. We use a…

— Dan Smith

When I was a teenager, black pride became newly popular again. Suddenly a lot of black people were wearing the fake kente cloth and…

— W. Kamau Bell

Not that long ago - in my parents' lives, in fact - actors in minstrel shows wore blackface to mimic and mock African Americans.…

— Wayne Messam

“It starts from the premise that black connotes evil and death in all cultures and hopes to figure out if “these associations influence people’s…

— Chuck Klosterman

The demonizing of black identity is much more of a global phenomenon than many would like to admit. I've traveled abroad extensively, and it's…

— Michael Eric Dyson

When I was perceived as a black man I became a threat to public safety. When I was dressed as myself, it was my…

— Laverne Cox