Always Quote by William Eggleston

A lot of my friends were mostly working in black-and-white-people like Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, and others. We would exchange prints with…

— William Eggleston

I started as a black-and-white teenage photographer, and I'm still there decades after. In some ways, the genre is almost gone. I am thinking…

— Hedi Slimane

I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in color.

— William Eggleston

I started a production company out of necessity, the need for great narratives for actors of color.

— Viola Davis

I belong to a non-filmy background, that is where my friends are from too.

— Zareen Khan

I have a lot of African-American friends.

— Larry Pressler

I taught myself to paint African-Americans, mostly people roughly my skin tone.

— Kehinde Wiley

I used to be a print reporter.

— Bob Schieffer

In college, I didn't know whether to hang out with the black kids or the white kids, and then I found the theatre kids,…

— Courtney A. Kemp

If I or any other black can deliver at the box office, I'll get a lot of work. Too many young actors, regardless of…

— Mario Van Peebles

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

I have friends who I consider my peers, who have done amazing work, particularly in the film and television space, who came up as…

— Barry Jenkins