“There was no audience for my books. The Indians didn't regard me as an Indian and North Americans couldn't conceive of me of a North American writer, not being white and brought up on wheat germ. My fiction got lost.” BookLostWhiteFictionAudienceRegardIndianWheatGermsAmerican Writer Author:Bharati Mukherjee
“Going on stage and transcending the audience and becoming this otherworldly thing makes you a dancer. It's not so black and white.” BlackWhiteAudienceStageBecomingDancerBlack And WhiteTranscending Author:Misty Copeland
“My dancers must be able to do anything, and I don't care if they are black or white or purple or green. I want to help show my people how beautiful they are. I want to hold up the mirror to my audience that says this is the way people can be, this is how open people can be.” PeopleIfsWayWantHelpingShowsCareAbleBeautifulBlackWhiteAudienceMirrorsGreenDanceDon't CareI Don't CareDancerPurpleBlack Or White Author:Alvin Ailey
“Often in my lectures when I use the phrase “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy” to describe our nation’s political system, audiences laugh. No one has ever explained why accurately naming this system is funny. The laughter is itself a weapon of patriarchal terrorism.” UsePoliticalNationsWhiteAudienceLaughingWeaponsLaughterTerrorismPhrasesCapitalistPatriarchyLecturesPolitical Systems Book:The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love Source: The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
“I didn't like what was on TV in terms of sitcomsit had nothing to do with the color of themI just didn't like any of them. I saw little kids, let's say 6 or 7 years old, white kids, black kids. And the way they were addressing the father or the mother, the writers had turned things around, so the little children were smarter than the parent or the caregiver. They were just not funny to me. I felt that it was manipulative and the audience was looking at something that had no responsibility to the family.” WayYearsChildrenLittlesKidsMotherFatherFeltParentBlackTermWhiteResponsibilityAudienceSawsColorTvsSmarterLittle KidSitcomManipulativeCaregivers Author:Bill Cosby
“I was grateful to see President Obama's victory speech. I was over the moon to see the audience. There were about 60 percent white voters the other 40 percent were African Americans, Asian, Spanish speaking etc. I wept at that spectacle, it told me that the pundits that continue in our country to try to polarize us, to keep us apart, are not succeeding. Americans are waking up not only to the truth, but the truth in each other. Hallelujah!” TryingCountryPresidentWhiteAudienceVictoryMoonSucceedSpeechPercentWake UpGratefulOur CountryAfrican AmericanEtcVotersWakingBlack PeoplePresident ObamaAsianHispanicPunditsAsian AmericanHallelujahPolarizing Author:Maya Angelou
“When a musical act performs, the black audience goes crazy for all the stuff, the album cuts, everything. White audiences, they're nice and all, but they're not going to lose it until they get the hits. Comedy is the same thing.” StuffBlackLosesWhiteAudienceComedyNiceCuttingCrazyMusicalAlbums Author:Chris Rock
“We're not like some of those 'Elvis' guys you see in the grocery store, buying their stuff while dressed in a white jump suit, that sort of thing. We love doing what we do, we appreciate and respect our audiences, we have a true love of The Beatles.” GuyStuffWhiteAudienceAppreciateStoresSuitsBuyingGroceriesGrocery Stores Author:Steve Landes
“But when I do book signings and personal appearances, the audiences are mostly white. Growing up here, I expected that and understand it. Black audiences won't come out for a white writer for the most part. It really is just a fact of life.” BookFactsBlackWhiteAudienceGrowing UpGrowingAppearanceExpectedFacts Of LifeSigningPersonal Appearance Author:George Pelecanos
“I didnt grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, Ive never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.” PeopleWantedSpeakGrowsWhiteAudienceGrowing UpHip HopHipsHops Author:G-Eazy
“I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. Thats not what I grew up around.” WantedArtistWhiteAudienceGrewGrew UpHip HopHipsHopsHip Hop Artist Author:G-Eazy
“What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering, black and white myth on a screen, it is a resonant story. I want the audience to recognize themselves in these men. They're not just mythic heroes.” MenWantTryingHumansStoriesBlackTermWhiteAudienceBrotherHeroBandMythScreensBlack And White Author:Tom Hanks
“I can't really hear the audience applause when I'm on stage. I'm totally immersed in the piece. But sometimes I get a lot of it and wonder, "Now, why did they applaud here?" If it's a white crowd, they usually applaud because they think it's a pretty movement. If it's a black crowd, it's usually because they identify with the message.” IfsThinkingI CanSometimesBlackWhiteWonderAudiencePiecesStageMovementMessagesDanceCrowdsApplause Author:Judith Jamison
“There is a linear way in which black comedians are expected to talk about race by all audiences - black people are like this, white people are like this - and it really is hard to break through that. I never was doing it that way.” PeopleWayHardBlackWhiteRaceBreakAudienceExpectedComedianBlack PeopleLinearBreak Through Author:W. Kamau Bell