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After Obama became president, I realized that black people could not have put him in the White House - it had to be a collective effort of everybody in the country.

A lot of times, black people were extremely cool, and that's how we've been commodified in TV and film. But now we're starting to see an upswing of material where we're like, 'It's cool to be quirky and weird and smart.'

I don't wanna be like somebody that just depicts black characters where drugs and guns are just a majority of what they have to do.

All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.

I'm a 3rd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do and 2nd degree in karate, and I'm a licensed bodyguard.

Light and subject is inseparable. But when it is well integrated, it becomes the work of a fine masterpiece.

Couldn't Lissa have healed that black eye away?" "Its a badge of honor. Makes me seem manly.

All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.

For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.

Braids are not new. Black women have been wearing braids for a very long time.

It's only in acting where I've heard in auditions, 'Can you black it up a little bit? Can you make her a little bit more urban?' And it's just like, 'What?' I don't even know the word for that.

I don't know how often white people look around and think, 'Wow, there's really a lot of white people here; we should fix that.' But I know black people often look around and think, 'Wow, I'm the only one here - why?'

On TV, as in life, white folks are allowed to make mistakes, but usually, black people aren't.

There's not one black narrative. There's not one way to be black.

There's this idea if you are a woman of colour, that you must never let them see you break down. That we've got to show ourselves in the best light, always, as the 'Strong Black Women' and bring that 'black girl magic' all the time.

I was looking around this room, this sea of industry folk. If I had have worn black and white, somebody would have asked me to get them a cocktail; the only other people of colour there were servers.

It's the reality of being Black in this country. You can have money, and you can be a benefactor and a leader in your community, but all people see is Black skin.

Talking about racism with white people can make white people very uncomfortable, Black people very uncomfortable.

For me personally, I have vitiligo, so my whole career, it's always been this very odd debate: 'Does she want to be white? Is she white and black? Is her mum white?' It's always been this question of my background, my race, and what I stand for.

My dad is black and my mom is white. It was not in vogue to be an interracial couple in the 1970s in South Texas. After my parents moved to San Antonio, it took almost a year for them to find their first home.

We want Black and White to be treated equally in this country, but we cannot heal this country, we can't save race relations, we can't accomplish equality, we can't serve justice, off of lies.