Allowed Quote by Tituss Burgess

I think I am the first person of color to direct a major white play on Broadway. In 1993? That's astounding to me. And…

— George C. Wolfe

There has got to be a way for me to have a role on TV or in film that is just as normal as…

— Adeel Akhtar

I was maybe one of two black kids in the drama department. It was, 'Well, you can't play this role because that guy has…

— Joe Morton

The pilots I did test for, I was the only black actor testing against white actors for parts that were written white.

— J. August Richards

I played Pierre, a white Russian aristocrat, and my co-lead was Denee Benton. Two black leads playing not black people - it was an…

— Okieriete Onaodowan

As an ambiguously non-white actor, I've been able to play light-skinned African American guys, Latinos, and I don't think that I've ever had to…

— Daniel Sunjata

It's funny because I went to a predominantly white school, but for some reason they always picked the musicals that were supposed to be…

— Dane DeHaan

I was always told that I'd have to do a movie with a white guy in order to get the money. That's the way…

— Louis Gossett, Jr

I'm kind of in a middle space, being marketed as a biracial actor. Roles are written either stereotypically black, or they're written 'normal,' which…

— Jesse Williams

It was jarring to be berated for 'acting white' when I was placed in a predominantly black middle school in Southern California. I was…

— Issa Rae

In 2005, I played Count Fosco in 'The Woman In White' on Broadway. It was a disaster. I was physically run down and terribly…

— Michael Ball

I got into [acting] so late because of sports. And then when I was in grad school, I sort of got lulled into basically…

— Mahershala Ali