Acting Quote by Tracie Thoms

I always say it's hard to cast an African-American film sometimes because those kinds of actors just aren't out there.

— Rick Famuyiwa

I am not defined as a black writer in the Caribbean, but as soon as I go to America or the U.K., my place…

— Derek Walcott

Often, African-Americans' work is accepted as if we did something artistic by happenstance. It's almost like, 'They make TV shows the same way they…

— Salim Akil

As a black actor, you always have the feeling that there's not as much work out there as for a white counterpart, but is…

— Dorian Missick

They think America is like a major league in entertainment. For me personally being here for the past year-and-a-half, I know some of the…

— Aml Ameen

The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was…

— Nelson Mandela

African American culture is American culture.

— Salim Akil

My plays aren't stylistically the same. Just being an African-American woman playwright on Broadway is experimental.

— Suzan-Lori Parks

I'm a black American playwright. I couldn't be anything else. I make my art out of black American culture; they're all cut out of…

— August Wilson

The sum total of what I learned about African American culture in school was Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the Underground Railroad.…

— Ashley Graham

One of the things about being a minority actor is that you don't have that opportunity as some of your counterparts to keep that…

— Georg Stanford Brown

You couldn't escape the literary atmosphere in our home. I grew up as a Britisher. I played a protagonist of every nationality in stage…

— Satya Bhabha