Black Doctor Quotes

#1. People do come up to me quite a lot. I get called all of it. I rarely get called my name; it's usually "Hey, Dr. Edwards!" or "Algernon." The most common thing is, "You're the black doctor on that show!" I'll take any of it, because I've definitely been called much worse things.

Andre Holland

#2. I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman.

David Alan Grier

#3. The popular idea of a role model implies that an adult's influence on a child is primarily occupational, and that all a black child needs is to see a black doctor, and then this child will think, "Oh, I can become a doctor too."

Richard Rodriguez

#4. Feminists will not be satisfied until every abortion is performed by a gay black doctor under an endangered tree on a reservation for handicapped Indians.

Florence King

#5. It would be extraordinary if the BBC were to make me the first black 'Doctor Who;' it would be extraordinary.

David Harewood

#6. If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.

Jesse Jackson

#7. I do think it's well over-time to have a female Doctor Who. I think a gay, black female Doctor Who would be the best of all.

Helen Mirren

#8. To avoid detection, the Doctor had attached a device called Randomiser to his TARDIS, his plan being to outfox the Black Guardian by popping up randomly all over the place. Neither Romana nor K-9 had the heart to tell the Doctor that that was pretty much what he did anyway.

Gareth Roberts

#9. What doctor does not need platform heels and dark black eyeliner to treat their patients?

Sarah Chalke

#10. I wouldn't like to find out my GP was messing about with black magic. It would be like discovering that your bank manager was also a stand-up comic.

Christopher Fowler

#11. Mom did not want me to have anything to do with playing music. Being from a middle-class Black family in that particular era, everybody wanted you to have a profession
a doctor, a lawyer, and so forth. So she sent me to school to study medicine.

Don Alias

#12. Gallows humor is part of having a doctor in the house. Deal with it.

J.R. Ward

#13. I have a weak stomach. My wife is a doctor, so she finds it funny that I actually pass out when I get my blood drawn. I physically can't stand gore on screen. I can't stand blood and guts. Not for any puritanical/moral high-ground reason. I just don't want to black out.

Christopher Denham

#14. You can't be what you don't see. I didn't think about being a doctor. I didn't even think about being a clerk in a store, I'd never seen a black clerk in a clothing store.

Joycelyn Elders

#15. First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.

Steve Martin

#16. His eyelashes were so long and thick they looked artificial. Black plastic reeds fringing two green, glacial pools.

Sylvia Plath

#17. Anything that could be conceived of that would separate black people from white people was devised and codified by someone in some state in the South. There were colored and White waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know.

Isabel Wilkerson

#18. When are you gunna forget that? It was ages ago.'
Only last year, actually. Reggie was convinced he had cancer because he had a black pot on his tongue - he switched to tea bags after the doctor told him it was a tea leaf.

Bill Condon