Broadway Quote by Yolanda King

Although the civil-rights movement did a lot to change how black life was dramatized on the American stage in the fifties and sixties, white…

— Hilton Als

I realized with Broadway everything written for black people is usually written in the past, and I'm kind of a contemporary guy. I don't…

— Chris Rock

Back in the 1970s, it was mostly all-black audiences coming into the theaters. So, we presented stories they could relate to.

— Rudy Ray Moore

American musicals are, for the most part, about boys, or boyish pursuits and aspirations - the fantasy of freedom and resolve - and those…

— Hilton Als

Negroes at last were on Broadway, and there to stay. We were artists and we were going a long way.

— Will M Cook

It's funny because I went to a predominantly white school, but for some reason they always picked the musicals that were supposed to be…

— Dane DeHaan

The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.

— Quincy Jones

Between Alan Freed in Cleveland and Bob Horn and Lee Stewart in Philadelphia and George 'Hound Dog' Lorenz in Buffalo, they began to find…

— Dick Clark

I think when black performers performed in blackface, they were kind of taking back slave songs, but it was still a little bit iffy…

— Cecile McLorin Salvant

Not that long ago - in my parents' lives, in fact - actors in minstrel shows wore blackface to mimic and mock African Americans.…

— Wayne Messam

I don't think that everything on Broadway relates to us, and I think that's why we as black people don't always go to Broadway…

— Stephanie Mills

My first two novels were very black comedies.

— Hilary Mantel