Black girl Quote by Taylor Russell

“I believe it’s incredibly important to write against [racial] stereotypes. If we give in and make sure that all black women characters are asexual,…

— Justine Larbalestier

I was shocked that I even got the opportunity to audition for 'A Wrinkle in Time.' Meg Murry is a Caucasian girl in the…

— Storm Reid

I always look at things half full and definitely see a change in how things are going as far as black actresses and their…

— Kimberly Elise

Black women are so very often stereotyped in pop culture.

— Franchesca Ramsey

There’s something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black women. It’s a different perspective. It is a reflection…

— Ava DuVernay

“You see, in American pop culture, beautiful dark women are invisible. (The other group just as invisible is Asian men. But at least they…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.

— Whoopi Goldberg

The black woman as a concept has an identity largely based on archaic tropes. This same woman as reality, however, exists at the unfortunate…

— Jerrika Hinton

There are expectations in how you play your character as a black woman, to be sassy and the same kind of feel, as if…

— Nicole Beharie

People are getting tired of the same material; they want to see black girls as leads in movies. And I happen to be lucky…

— Amandla Stenberg

There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors.

— Debra Wilson

In reality, black women, women of color, are powerful, bold, dynamic, and self-assured, so there's no reason their TV counterparts shouldn't be as such.

— Cheo Hodari Coker