Be the first Quote by Tyra Banks

I don't want it to be something that becomes a cage, where to be a successful Black girl, you have to be Amanda Gorman…

— Amanda Gorman

When I first started in modeling, I went back to England, and it was really hard, because I would go around to the agencies…

— Jodie Turner-Smith

I'd like to be the first model who becomes a woman.

— Lauren Hutton

I look at modeling as something I'm doing for black people in general.

— Naomi Campbell

I want to be someone who is a great representation of a black woman in Hollywood, a black woman in the entertainment industry.

— Kat Graham

I definitely intend to create my own work in the future so that we don't have to keep saying, We don't have work for…

— Lupita Nyong'o

I only know how to be a Black woman. I don't know anything else, and so I don't know how to lead any other…

— Laphonza Butler

As a black woman in the industry, you really do have to hold your head higher, stick your chest out, be kind and polite…

— Lena Waithe

I'm not interested in making all-black films - I come from a very diverse culture; I want to work with every type of person.…

— Idris Elba

You know, I've never believed, in anything, that you had to have role models who looked like you to do something. If I'd been…

— Condoleezza Rice

I don't want to be self-mythologizing, but I do feel like, growing up, on TV, there weren't a lot of young Black women who…

— Ayo Edebiri

I'm obviously nervous and excited to take on this opportunity but I don't feel added pressure being the first black Bachelorette, because to me…

— Rachel Lindsay