Black Quote by Sidney Poitier

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

I'm used to being the only black guy. I've seriously walked onstage, looked out in the audience, 15,000 people - and I'm the only…

— Darius Rucker

Many people early on actually thought I was a black performer!

— B. J. Thomas

I was always the only black in the movie theater, the only black in class, the only black in the library, the only black…

— Concha Buika

I was a player who was vying to do exactly what everyone else was doing, and I happened to be black.

— Katrina Adams

I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made…

— Eartha Kitt

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

There was nothing around me that would have given me heroes who happened to be Black. And I don't think anybody can understand how…

— Paterson Joseph

As long as I can remember, I saw myself as black. I was socially conditioned to discard that. It was an all-white town. I…

— Rachel Dolezal

I was the first black man on television.

— Scatman Crothers

Without mentioning any names, there was a film that was being done, and I ran into the producer on the plane. It was a…

— Joe Morton

I was a black center in the middle of all the nature. I was nothing, but I could do anything.

— James Franco