American family Quote by Wesley Morris

'The Cosby Show' was a show about black people that was fundamentally and unequivocally friendly to whiteness and to white people. The Huxtables had…

— Rebecca Traister

I can't negate the theory that the Huxtables on 'The Cosby Show' may have helped pave the way for the Obama family. People enjoyed…

— Bill Cosby

Mr. Cosby wanted to do a show not about an upper-middle-class black family, but an upper-middle-class family that happened to be black. Though it…

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner

“A shift in class values occurs in black life when integration comes and with it the idea that money is the primary marker of…

— bell hooks

“Black people are not the descendants of kings. We are—and I say this with big pride—the progeny of slaves. If there’s any majesty in…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“black women were working all day (often scrubbing the homes of white women), it was impossible for them also to fulfill the at-home maternal…

— Rebecca Traister

I saw the general-market world, the white world. I felt that it was my mission to see to it that black talent had an…

— Don Cornelius

I think that white people were, no question, the creators of what we call white America.

— David Duke

White people loved 'The Cosby Show,' especially liberal white people. They loved it because it was a great, funny, well - written, and beautifully…

— Rebecca Traister

During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of…

— Michael N. Castle

I was one of I think three white girls in my school. So, I was very much an outsider. And plus I was Jewish…

— Janis Ian

Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, have played an important role in enriching the lives of not just African Americans, but our entire…

— Ric Keller