Marsai Martin Quotes

There are so many reality shows on now where they want you to be crazy, the girls are just going bananas; you know how they portray brown girls. They portray us in a different type of light.

Mainstream media's representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black men's lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.

When you're a large black man in Hollywood, the obvious stereotype is one of force and menace.

Growing up, usually when I saw a black female on television, she was either a broken character or sidekick.

I think the stereotypes many black men are put under, even in the entertainment world, can sometimes have a dark or negative undertone.

I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.'

The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts.

You never hear about a pit bull doing anything good in the media. And they have a stigma to them... and, in many ways, pit bulls are like young African-American males. Whenever you see us in the news, it's for getting shot and killed or shooting and killing somebody - for being a stereotype.

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.

Young people are so often dissed by the media.

There's no racism with the Internet.

I felt pretty good growing up. I didn't feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if there was going to be a movie or a television show with Asian characters, I would go out of my way to avoid them, because they portrayed all Asians as either ridiculously good or ridiculously bad; you know, the whole Charlie Chan-Fu Manchu thing.

There's so many, 'no, black people aren't like that' barriers in mainstream media.

You face racism in small and large ways.

I think lot of Muslims have gotten fatigued by the way Muslim characters, even 'positive' ones, are portrayed in the media.

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.

If a casting breakdown said 'All-American Type' or 'Lead Role,' I knew they weren't thinking of me.

I've heard about productions where it still happens: yellow face, taping up the eyes. It's hard to talk about it in a constructive way.

We only put the negative black people on television. We don't put the good, hard-working black people.

Well, in the '80s and '70s, with the exception of Sidney Poitier and Brock Peters, maybe Ivan Dixon, if you were as big and black as I am, you were a bad guy. Simple. Because in real life, I scare people.

If Adam Sandler does a bad movie, he doesn't bring down the whole white race. But if Tyler Perry does, it's like, 'See what you guys do?' and that type of thing.

I understand we love to talk about black girl magic, but sometimes that is a term that allows people to put us in this character like we're not real people that feel real things.

Asian males have not been appreciated for what they are. They have always been dissed for what they are not.