Stacy Brown-Philpot Quotes

I never saw a consistent through-line of employment for black actresses. I was like, 'How are they supporting themselves?'

The government at all levels is overly represented by white men. That's part of the problem, and I'm a white man.

I don't want to be super aggressive, but I think it's an issue that the population of America isn't reflected accurately in a lot of movies. I'm just disappointed that there isn't an Asian leading man or an Asian leading woman. There's an obvious gap that should be filled.

To not see black or Latina women as famous in my industry is crazy! I have to talk about it.

We are not generally included in that narrative - people of color - definitely, women of color don't normally fit that narrative that has been built around the whole image and the whole story of the Silicon Valley.

[T]here's nobody Black in charge of anything in Hollywood.

As a black actor, you always have the feeling that there's not as much work out there as for a white counterpart, but is America after all; you have to play ball if you're going to play ball.

We've heard the excuses from those responsible for hiring that they don't want to take a chance on a new director. But the truth is that the industry hires new directors all the time; it's just that most of them are white males.

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.

In 1968, the situation at Harvard was not one of which we can be proud. In that year, the proportion of minority persons in salary and wage positions was approximately 3 per cent. Virtually no minority workers were employed on Harvard construction projects.

When I look at 55 percent of our black men dropping out of school, how bad off are we going to be when we need some lawyers?

African-Americans are underrepresented.

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.

It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family.

Where I come from, out in the suburbs, I didn't know anyone who was a professional actor. And girls that looked like me? No girls like that were on TV.

Black people are taken for granted by the Democratic Party and not even sought after by the Republican Party.

I've seen very few Hispanics and blacks who have been able to work their way into the advertising end of business.

For too long, I think the African-American community has been taken for granted by one party and completely ignored by the other. It is not acceptable. It's not good for the parties, for the country, or for the community.

By and large, the theatre establishment is run by a white majority.

I'll just say that there are certain people who continue to be hired in Hollywood, and that leaves me truly shocked.

Black women do not have as many positive images in the media as we should.

When only one or two percent of filmmakers are female, you can't help but have some kind of bias.

It's something I've constantly found shocking - all this astounding talent amongst black women that never gets to be seen or heard.

There's this perception that there's a pipeline problem for women and people of color. I don't buy into that. I think we have a broken doorbell problem, and there are plenty of women and people of color standing at the doorstep trying to get in the door, and nobody's opening it.

Having spent half my time at university studying English literature, I know from experience that reading lists often contain more white men than Jacob Rees-Mogg's last birthday party.