Black Quote by Scatman Crothers Download Open image “I was the first black man on television.” — Scatman Crothers ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Black First Man Television
Black people didn't start coming to see me until 1982. I'd just started doing Delbert, and suddenly my world changed. I started doing black-centred… — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
My mother is black, from Grenada, so my blackness was always there, but It wasn't until I started hanging with the upperclassmen black actors… — Amanda Seales Copy Share Image
I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old. — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
A show hosted by a black had never been accepted, so the first time that knob's turned on, people are judging against all they… — Flip Wilson Copy Share Image
I had a burning desire to see black people presented on television in a positive light. — Don Cornelius Copy Share Image
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I went to a school that was predominantly white, and I was one of the first wave of black kids. — Jay Blades Copy Share Image
I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
I admit, music is my first love. I enjoy acting but I couldn't give up my music. — Scatman Crothers Copy Share Image
I'm 70 years old. I'm a young man, and I've still got a lot to learn, that's right, and I'm learning every day. — Scatman Crothers Copy Share Image
Color don't mean anything. People gonna try to put you in a place one way or the other. — Scatman Crothers Copy Share Image
To be honest , I looked at 'The Shining' as just doing another movie. — Scatman Crothers Copy Share Image
My acting has got to be natural. I didn't go to any drama schools. It's a gift from God. — Scatman Crothers Copy Share Image
I think it's so foolish for people to try and hide their age. I don't understand that. You should be happy and glad to… — Scatman Crothers Copy Share Image
The Shining is my fourth picture with Jack Nicholson, or as he says, our fourth 'classic.' — Scatman Crothers Copy Share Image
I came out with my five-piece group and opened at Billy Burke's Swing Oar. This was when Hollywood was really jumpin'. This was when… — Scatman Crothers Copy Share Image
Can you imagine what five or 10 dollars was like in 1925? In those days, you could get room and board for $1.50 a… — Scatman Crothers 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… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
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… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
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… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Black music has always known, and not been afraid to acknowledge just how high the stakes of Black thought are. To summarize the final… — Frank B. Wilderson III Copy Share Image
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… — John Boyega Copy Share Image
