racial diversity quotes

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.

When you’re doing a film and the majority of the film is cast black, for me, it’s most important to get people to view those movies as just movies, as just good movies. At the end of the day, regardless of the color of the cast, we’re all doing the same thing in this business: trying to make a good film.

All my playmates on the farm were black, and later, when I started school in Plains, it was all white. But I was always eager to get back home to my friends in Archery.

In all my days of schooling, from preschool all the way up to 12th grade, there was not one white person in my class. Literally zero.