About Quote by Soledad O'Brien

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

Shows like 'Empire,' 'Black-ish,' 'Scandal,' and 'How to Get Away With Murder' are expanding viewers' perspectives on what people of color can be like.…

— Baron Vaughn

The way Hollywood and TV is, black people don't have any choice but to see ourselves in white-dominated television shows and stories and movies.

— Justin Simien

Back in the 1970s, it was mostly all-black audiences coming into the theaters. So, we presented stories they could relate to.

— Rudy Ray Moore

If you create a good story that has a lot of story value I think audiences like that. It's why they stick with the…

— Robert Rodriguez

I do think it's important for black writers to show that we too can make it into the mainstream. Growing up, I didn't just…

— Lena Waithe

What I crave, and what I want to see on television, is when you see a minority character, not to have it being about…

— Zazie Beetz

I saw the general-market world, the white world. I felt that it was my mission to see to it that black talent had an…

— Don Cornelius

There is an appetite for things that are different and a story with Black characters that's going to appeal to a lot of people.

— Cord Jefferson

Because when you have all white men in the writers' room trying to tell the perspective of cultural appropriation or what it's like to…

— Lexi Underwood

If a white filmmaker is going to tell a story about a Black family, then because they get all the opportunities that they get,…

— Taylor Russell

I decided to try to make a show of my own where I could invite an audience to obsess about race the way I…

— Steven C. Harper