Claudia Schiffer Quotes

The industry looks for white actors and actresses, but it's not the same for black actors. We have to really put the work in.

Hollywood's racist.

We're all complaining about diversity in Hollywood, but we've got to address the colorism within the black community of Hollywood first.

The truth is, no, we don't live in a post-racial state anywhere in America, and this is particularly true in Hollywood.

When I started, it was all meter maids or the sassy nurse, or the sassy receptionist in the hospital. And I felt like: Are those the only jobs that large, black women have?

I've always been a fan of issues around race and racialism, and I've loved playing with it. People act as though it isn't an issue, but it's a recurring theme in our lives globally.

As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways. Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.

You always make a film with the hope that all types of people will want to see your work and that it doesn't matter about your color, but unfortunately it still does.

I go to castings and see several black and Asian girls, then I get to the show and look around there's just me and maybe one other coloured face.

I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?

We're told that independent film lovers... folks that are used to watching art house films, won't come out and see a film with black people in it - I've been told that in rooms, big rooms, studio rooms, and I know that's not true.

Not only our political system is broken, but how we do business and have public discourse with one another. The system in Hollywood, specifically, is not depicting people of color; we're not even talking about Asian Americans or Latino Americans; we're not even getting into that question.

I think the most serious injustice perpetrated by the court system in America is the inability of a black man to get a jury of his peers.

Why is the world that I see around me mixed, and why is the world I see in movies filled with all white people? Why does it have to be like that?

I got kicked out of four high schools just because people took issue with the colour of my skin. As if I could help the colour I was born.

I don't want my daughter to ever feel that she can't do something because of her skin colour.

When I was pitching 'Power,' I had an executive say, 'Well, I already have a black show.' He said that right to my face.

Having a strong race lens means you understand racism is threaded through and institutionalized in all of our systems and our very perceptions, threaded through how someone looks at you, treats you, thinks about you and your potential.

I'm always going to say, 'I think there is racism' and I want to stamp it out.

When I came into this industry, was there racism? Yes.

Far too often, I have been accepted or rejected for work because of the color of my skin.

Diversity in the industry is very lacking, and equal opportunity comes very far and few between for people of color.

I've worked at a Game Stop and had my service turned down before because of the color of my skin. And it's a shame.

While everyone has racial bias, I reserve the word 'racist' to describe the bias that white people have - our collective bias is backed by institutional power.

Casting directors will often say that they are open to any ethnicity, but they're not.