Dorian Missick Quotes

On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.

Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.

Opportunity seems to be color-coded here in America

The white actresses I have known have been allowed to do 10 times more than I shall ever do.

In the industry, artists of of color struggle the most. Caucasian artists have really solidified themselves in the industry, and with African Americans now we see directors and producers who vow to only produce work that shines a light on African American artists. But everybody in the middle gets lost.

If you're African American, you are forced into making different choices, in a lot of cases, than you are as a white person.

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.

We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.

We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96 percent of blacks voted for him in 2008. Yet today we are the number one in unemployment, with 16 percent of American blacks out of work.

You have little representation of young black men in the business sector, so you have children growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods who don't hear discussions at the dinner table about what goes on in business. It's almost as if we have two nations.

Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.

I don't feel that I was often compartmentalized as an African-American actor, yet I am fully aware of the plight that actors, directors and producers of color face in our industry. I choose to focus on being proactive in creating opportunities for myself and others while acknowledging that we are not playing on a level playing field.

There is no such thing as a black middle class.

I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.

Sadly, whites are rarely open to what black and brown folks have to say regarding their ongoing experiences with racist mistreatment. And we are especially reluctant to discuss what that mistreatment means for us as whites: namely that we end up with more and better opportunities as the flipside of discrimination.

I hate to say this about the Republican establishment, but their view of Civil Rights is to tip the black waiter five bucks at the country club.

We don't want something for youth at risk, we want something for black youth at risk.

I’ve always operated on the theory that I’d better be better and cleaner than my white counterparts.

... if the United States is indeed the great melting pot, the Negro either didn't get in the pot or he didn't get melted down.

If this country is a melting pot, then either the Afro-American didn't get in the pot or he didn't get melted down.

Integration in the fields of education, housing, transportation and public accommodations will be of limited extent and duration so long as fundamental economic inequality along racial lines persist.

The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.

We had particular policies in this country that resulted in the larger share of poverty that we have in African-American communities.

The clock has been turned back on racial progress in America, though scarcely anyone seems to notice. All eyes are fixed on people like Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey who have defied the odds and achieved great power, wealth, and fame.

You can't be perceived as 'the black actress who doesn't get the same kind of roles as the white actress.' You gotta run the same race. You gotta give the same quality of performances. You gotta have the same standard of excellence, even though people know that you're coming to the race in a deficit. That's just what life is about.