Tyron Woodley Quotes

It is frustrating to be a Black woman in the entertainment industry.

As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.

If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.

As a black, you find you have to be two or three times better than a white even to play. And when it comes to front-office jobs, management believes you'll never be as good.

The consequences for failure are very different if you're a woman or a person of color than they are if you're a guy. If you're a guy who makes a mistake, you get a second chance. Often, for those of us who are outsiders, we make a mistake, and that's the end of the conversation.

I'm constantly proving myself. I have to always prove myself. There are roles where I feel like, "That should have been a straight offer. Why am I having to call my people and fight for it?"

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

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

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

I try not to judge because I've been judged a heck of a lot, and it don't feel nice.

Black players had an issue with Joe Torre. They weren't treated like everybody else. Even I got called out in a couple of meetings that I thought was unfair.

What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.

By virtue of their being regarded as something "exceptional," even by friends and well-wishers, Negroes of attainment and genius have been unfairly disassociated from the group, and group credit lost accordingly.

When you live in a world in which juveniles are much more likely to be stopped—or if stopped, be arrested, or if arrested, be adjudicated—if they are Black, then all of the indicators associated with prior criminal history are going to be serving effectively as a proxy for race.

… a sieve with holes just big enough for the majority of Negroes to fall through

It's emotional for artists who are women and people of color to have less value placed on our worldview.

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.

All my life, I faced sexism and racism and then, when I hit 40, ageism.

Minorities do not believe this country will give them a fair shake.

Black and brown communities are significantly and disproportionately impacted by deficiencies in our criminal justice system.

I am black in a predominantly white industry, and I have been luckier than most.

I see racism as institutional: the rules are different for me because I'm black. It's not necessarily someone's specific attitude against me; it's just the fact that I, as a black man, have a much harder time making an art-house movie and getting it released than a white person does about their very white point of view. That's racism.

The thing about being black in a mostly white industry, particularly as a black male, is you can't lose your temper in the same way. Essentially, you are an angry black man losing his temper in a way that's unprofessional, as opposed to an industry that has protected unprofessional white males in perpetua.

As a black woman I always felt growing up I had to do above and beyond stuff to be noticed, to feel like I could hang with everybody else.

When people doubt your right to be somewhere, the responsibility falls on you to prove over and over again that you deserve to be there.