Stereotypical Black Quotes

#1. I had talked to my agent a lot over the years about not being interested in stereotypical "black films" [because] I didn't like the way they were representing black people over and over and over again in the same way.

Zoe Kravitz

#2. I personally don't feel any pressure to make jokes about multiple baby-fathers and stereotypical black jokes, because one, that's just not my life, and two, I wouldn't even sound right talking about those things.

Issa Rae

#3. I have no desire to be hip to the latest black slang and do the stereotypical black thing. I was a Richard Pryor fan, and I have used profanity in my act. But when it becomes a whole thing that defines blacks, we're limiting ourselves. The enemy is us.

Franklyn Ajaye

#4. I know that you've got to watch how you spend all the dollars. That's not the easiest thing to do. That's not what people think is the most fun thing to do, but it's the right thing to do.

Rick Scott

#5. I get to play a great character while working with great actors and great directors on a great show.

Harry Hamlin

#6. Shows in the '70s and '80s were a lot more provocative. Shows that are coming out now - like 'Black-Ish,' 'The Carmichael Show' - are showcasing people of color in a new way. It's not stereotypical.

Bresha Webb

#7. I just don't think you pass on a great quarterback if you have the opportunity. If need be, you can trade it away.

Tony Dungy

#8. It's one thing when other African-Americans try to threaten my race card, but when people outside of my ethnicity have the audacity to question how 'down' I am because of the bleak, stereotypical picture pop culture has painted for me as a black woman? Unacceptable.

Issa Rae

#9. Being a cab river is not unlike being a magician
minus the top hat, the cape, the rabbit, an the gorgeous assistant. But you do have an audience.

Gary Reilly

#10. I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts.

Trisha Goddard

#11. If you don't think of the future, you won't have one.

Henry Ford

#12. I don't trust any country that looks around a continent and says, "Hey, I'll take the frozen part."

Jon Stewart