African american Quote by Salim Akil

Unfortunately, in television today there are very few African-American characters who are human beings. They are typically two-dimensional stereotypes, cookie-cutter types.

— Andre Braugher

I am African-American, and I am a proud African-American. I just don't like to put myself in a box and say, 'I'm an African-American…

— Nafessa Williams

I always say it's hard to cast an African-American film sometimes because those kinds of actors just aren't out there.

— Rick Famuyiwa

When I walk in the door sometimes, I'm already an anomaly. Because I'm working in a genre that African-American's don't typically engage in.

— Kevin Grevioux

“I am not 'African American' —I am black American.”

— John McWhorter

I only became an actor to get your attention, to challenge the archetype of an African American male; I can't be anything else in…

— Isaiah Washington

As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on…

— Naturi Naughton

I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films.

— Wes Craven

What does it mean to be too black for Hollywood? It's self-explanatory. Hollywood has certain kinds of blacks that they like.

— Paul Mooney

It's one thing when other African-Americans try to threaten my race card, but when people outside of my ethnicity have the audacity to question…

— Issa Rae

If you see black people being portrayed in this one way well then, when you see a black person in real life, you're going…

— KiKi Layne

I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.

— Tracey Ullman