Black Quote by Y'lan Noel

A black character is much more than just a black character; he's a character, period. So show the world as it is. Even with…

— Raoul Peck

There is an appetite for things that are different and a story with Black characters that's going to appeal to a lot of people.

— Cord Jefferson

A lot of black actors will sit there and go, 'Every role is about being a gangster' - then they get an opportunity to…

— Ashley Walters

If you see black people being portrayed in this one way well then, when you see a black person in real life, you're going…

— KiKi Layne

If you are black on television, you are probably going to be some kind of thug, gangster, or portrayed in a negative light. If…

— Charles Barkley

It's so important to create roles and characters and projects that feature black people in a way that's not specifically targeted toward the niche…

— Amandla Stenberg

Some people in America don't ever interact with black people outside of television, so we should give them real, believable characters.

— Mike Colter

It's so important to create roles and characters and projects that feature black people in a way that's not specifically targeted towards the niche…

— Amandla Stenberg

There's this responsibility you feel to present a certain thing that kind of respectability politics. I think that became the only accepted way of…

— Rick Famuyiwa

I think that for the most part, black people specifically have sort of been used as props in TV shows as a way to…

— Lena Waithe

I love that I get to play a black character who's not a stereotype, who is not afraid to be vulnerable, who comes from…

— Ncuti Gatwa

I like representing different kinds of black people - showing they exist.

— Zazie Beetz