Kat Graham Quotes

I feel like we need to make new superheroes, African-American superheroes, that people would accept.

I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, 'You can like Mozart and ice hockey...' - and then I used to say 'golf,' but Tiger took over golf! - 'and Picasso and still be as black as the ace of spades.'

Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their alienation. This museum has certainly stood for that in this town.

Instead of hoping that some day the boys' club will open its doors, we can form our own clubs, define 'worthy' our own way, and celebrate the books and voices that we decide deserve celebration.

The challenge facing America in the next century will be the shaping, at long last, of a truly common public culture, one responsive to the long silenced cultures of color.

For me, I actively look for projects that showcase people of color.

I feel an obligation to use black dancers because there must be more opportunities for them, but not because I'm a black choreographer talking to black people.

In reality, black women, women of color, are powerful, bold, dynamic, and self-assured, so there's no reason their TV counterparts shouldn't be as such.

I'm working to create a space where it feels easy to include and imagine black girls and make black girls like me the main characters of our lives.

I do my best to choose projects that I believe highlight different things or at least provide some sort of progression for people of color.

I was seeing people of color growing up in my media. I was seeing them in positions of power.

I want things to be great for people of color and for women.

I want to see as many black professionals as possible.

For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting.

Latinos, Asians, African-Americans, women - we're all trying to find our place in this world of cinema and television and theater. And the great thing with comedy is that most of the time, you could be orange. It doesn't matter, as long you're funny.

The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.

One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.

I feel a responsibility to continue creating complex roles for black women, especially young black women.

The common denominator all Latinos have is that we want some respect. That's what we're all fighting for.

Personally, it's a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America.

Audiences want great story telling; it's why white people watch my show 'Black in America.' It's why black people watch 'Latina in America.' All of that is statistically shown and proven but it was because it was good story telling about people who were outsiders.

Being born in Jamaica, race was never an issue. It was always about the type of person I wanted to be, not the colour of my skin.

America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live.

We don't all have to take the same coordinates to get to the same destination. Being a young African American female artist, I want to open doors for young black girls.

I want to be able to work on a project that will give people around the world the chance to represent their own people, their own culture, their own stories, rather than just Hollywood - really, you know, dominated Hollywood. And that's a dream of mine.