“Mother loathed the all-black B movies Hollywood made for the "colored" audience, where the stereotypes were broader and more offensive to her, and where the musical interludes did no justice to real talent, she said, but trivialized it.” MadeSaidRealMotherBlackJusticeAudienceTalentHollywoodMusicalOffensiveStereotypeAll BlackReal Talent Book:The Hottest Water in Chicago: Notes of a Native Daughter Source: The Hottest Water in Chicago: Notes of a Native Daughter
“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
“The demographic of our audience is young. It also contains a high proportion of black, Jewish and gay people, who have all been encouraged by society to think of themselves as oddities or mutants. I hope that's why X-Men chimes with them - it's certainly why I was attracted to the idea in the first place.” PeopleThinkingMenFirstsIdeasYoungBlackAudienceGayProportionGay PeopleDemographicsX MenMutantsChimesOddities Author:Ian Mckellen
“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
“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
“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
“(Five) thinkers since Galileo, each informing his successor of what discoveries his own lifetime had seen achieved, might have passed the torch of science into our hands as we sit here in this room. Indeed, for the matter of that, an audience much smaller than the present one, an audience of some 5 or 6 score people, if each person in it could speak for his own generation, would carry us away to the black unknown of the human species, to days without a document or monument to tell their tale.” PeopleIfsHumansPersonsMatterHandsMightSpeakBlackRoomsAudienceFiveGenerationsDiscoveryLifetimeSpeciesTalesScoreThinkerDocumentsMonumentTorchesSuccessorsHuman SpeciesInforming Book:William James: Essays and Lectures Source: William James: Essays and Lectures
“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
“What ignited the rocket that sent you up into the vast regions of comedy, and why? I would say, for me, that philosophical treatise about having black beginnings and wanting love to compensate for that, wanting audiences and wanting attention - I say, "Au contraire." Completely opposite. I want the continuation of my mother's incredible love and attention to me.” WantMotherBlackAttentionAudienceComedyOppositesPhilosophicalIncrediblesRegionsRocketsContinuation Author:Mel Brooks
“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