Art Quote by Salim Akil

Often, African-Americans' work is accepted as if we did something artistic by happenstance. It's almost like, 'They make TV shows the same way they…

— Salim Akil

African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but…

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner

They think America is like a major league in entertainment. For me personally being here for the past year-and-a-half, I know some of the…

— Aml Ameen

I think there's a lot of things that occur within the African-American community, that we would prefer to stay within the African-American community -…

— Gabrielle Union

I just want to make sure that I'm taking roles that are positive, real, honest reflections of African-Americans because I do think the media…

— Kat Graham

I think that for the most part, black people specifically have sort of been used as props in TV shows as a way to…

— Lena Waithe

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

— Wes Craven

Too often, if you look back through the history of representation and you take the work of African-American artists, the work is on such…

— Kerry James Marshall

Black artists are encouraged to explore their identity but are then pigeonholed according to their ethnicity. We may have seen the decline of old…

— Munira Mirza

In the industry, artists of of color struggle the most. Caucasian artists have really solidified themselves in the industry, and with African Americans now…

— Mena Massoud

The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.

— Lance Reddick

Art is a form of experience of the person, the place, the history of the people, and as black people, we are different. We…

— Faith Ringgold