Laurence Fishburne Quotes

I'm not for having to support everything that's black, because I definitely don't. But I do feel like it is imperative for us to see that we are not a monolithic people.

Mostly I'm proud to be an African-American woman, but I'm glad I have a universal look as well.

I think every group of black guys should have at least one white guy in it.

You can't have too many books featuring people of color, just like you can't have too many books featuring white people.

As far as diversity's concerned, there's me, there's Al Madrigal, there's Aasif Mandvi. But I'm not walking around feeling black all the time. That would stress me out.

I've never excluded myself because of color. It's never been part of the radar, when I look at anything I do. The majority of the roles that I've played have had very little to do with being black. It doesn't matter what color you are.

Colored people come in all colors.

I know I'm a black actor, but really, I'm an actor who happens to be black.

I grew up figure skating, and in figure skating there is only a handful of black people at the time figure skating with me.

There were no small brown kids as the centre of the children's fiction I grew up with.

When I signed for Spurs, I was the only black player in the team.

You turn 'Insecure' on, and you see a sea of brown. You see at the core of it a strong friendship between two brown-skinned girls.

It's odd to say we had our first African American president before our first African-American-owned movie studio, but we're making progress.

I feel like we need to make new superheroes, African-American superheroes, that people would accept.

Black people, we are not this monolithic group, you know?

There needs to be more film directors of colour. They bandy about the word 'diversity' a lot, but when I say 'of colour,' I mean Asian, black - I mean people of all colour. We need to have those voices given the opportunity, not told that their films will not be distributed or will not sell well abroad.

I grew up watching foreign programs - American, English, Mexican, and very little Kenyan. 'The Color Purple' was the first time I saw people who looked like me.

It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.

I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they represent.

When I was a kid, it wasn't very often that I could go to the movies and see an entire movie carried on the shoulders of someone who looked like me.

I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.

I grew up in a world where the majority of people were black, so that wasn't the defining quality of anyone. When you're describing someone, you don't start out with 'he's black, he's white.'

In fact, some reviewers have said that as they got into the story they forgot that the protagonist is a black woman. They were moved by the story - by the people as a whole - and not by the little things.

'Black film,' that term allows studios to just marginalize a movie and say, 'We've made our black film. We've made our film with people of color in it,' as opposed to, 'I just feel like people of color should be in every genre.'

Scientology is not a white religion. It is not just for white people.