Black Quote by Terry Crews

It's great to be black in Hollywood. When a black actor does something, it seems new and different just by virtue of the fact…

— Will Smith

I know I'm a black actor, but really, I'm an actor who happens to be black.

— Stephan James

A lot of black actors will sit there and go, 'Every role is about being a gangster' - then they get an opportunity to…

— Ashley Walters

What does it mean to be too black for Hollywood? It's self-explanatory. Hollywood has certain kinds of blacks that they like.

— Paul Mooney

To me the industry has always said that the lovers and haters and principal characters will always be white in Hollywood, and black people…

— Haile Gerima

As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on…

— Naturi Naughton

When you're a Black actress, the box that we often get put in is so small. And me being a dark-skinned Black actress, the…

— KiKi Layne

I have lots of hopes for black actors in general, whether they be on TV or on stage or in movies, and that is…

— Joe Morton

There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black…

— Anonymous

So now I feel I'm lucky in the respect that I can sort of pick a little more carefully, which is tricky because as…

— Rachel True

The whole Black Hollywood thing doesn't exist for me anymore. Once someone says that to themselves, they subject themselves to those rules.

— Omar Epps

Sometimes you have to change the mold. If people keep following the same Hollywood mold, you're going to get the same thing. And as…

— Kym Whitley