African american Quote by Wanda Sykes

I fantasize about the networks making a rule that each show's writing staff needs to reflect the gender and racial makeup of its audience.

— Nell Scovell

My goal is to broaden and deepen the range of African-American characters on television, so I always try to show human beings.

— Andre Braugher

I doubted Black-ish , and I'll tell you why. Because it doesn't matter if a writer wrote it for you. He could've written it…

— Tracee Ellis Ross

I'm not saying I have to write a book that's ten times better than my counterparts, but I do think that I have to…

— Jesmyn Ward

I've just always been a proponent of having a lot of diversity in the shows I've done. I just think that's the world we…

— Robert Greenblatt

I feel like I'm put in a position where I have to engage with what people bring to my work, which is an expectation…

— Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Shows like 'Seinfeld' and 'Friends,' they have, like, one or two damn characters throughout the whole series that are minorities.

— Esai Morales

It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and female authors…

— Jesmyn Ward

I grew up in a household of women, they ran the show, they kept it all together. I credit my ability to write in…

— Wally Lamb

I've had a somewhat typical experience in that many of the contemporary writers I was exposed to early on were white and often male.

— Laura van den Berg

I'm one of the few Black writers, or African American writers, who managed to work my way through the system so that it has…

— James McBride

Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely by white writers - the better to preserve the stereotypes, I…

— Langston Hughes