Cree Summer Quotes

We need our HBCUs. The youth need our HBCUs. The elders need our HBCUs.

Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, have played an important role in enriching the lives of not just African Americans, but our entire country.

Part of the reason everyone is freaking out over 'Black Panther' is because we've never seen it. We have two thousand years of stories, and we've never seen it.

'Black-ish' is a show that has spoken to all different types of people and brought them closer as a community, and I'm so proud of the series.

I don't necessarily believe that 'The Cosby Show' should disappear as a cultural reference, but it is. That's sad to me. I understand why. He was a man who possibly did some really bad things, and he should be punished beyond a doubt. But that show, and the impact it had not just on black culture, but culture, was amazing.

I love Issa Rae from 'Insecure.'

Nothing will ever outshine, for me, the countless children whose eyes and imaginations I've seen light up when meeting Black Santa and understanding that there's a character of pure good out there that represents them.

Talk to any black person in my age group, and they'll say 'A Different World' is why they went to college. The show literally changed my life, and it boggles my mind that it doesn't get the kind of love it deserves.

I went to a historically black college.

Scores of African-Americans have written both appreciatively and critically about what 'The Cosby Show' meant to them over the years.

I'm just happy that as an African-American man, that 'Candyman' has once again been given the nod to enter people's consciousness.

Even being part of a world like 'Black Panther,' that is gonna be something that's deeply commercial, it still is about a narrative of people who are unseen, unheard, and unrepresented, you know?

Black Poetry is not for Black People...it is for everybody

Every generation has their favorite Spider-Man television show.

Toni Morrison is challenged regularly because she is a black author who writes about the real world. She speaks with so much knowledge about black issues she can't be accused of creating these (issues). People find these issues threatening.

Michael Jackson National African American Art Examiner Series

Historically, you've had really muddy, unforgiving, unintentional images of black people.

The reason why the music [jazz] is important is because it's an art form-an ancient art form-that takes in the mythology of our people.

I felt like it was a courageous show [Black-ish] from the beginning. We are a black family - we're not a family that happens to be black. But the show is not even about us being black. The show is about us being a family. That is groundbreaking - on TV, the black characters either happen to be black or they're the "black character," where everything they say is about being black. I think that's the genius.

The easy answer is to say that it's a part for black people to see black heroes, but to me it's important to young Mexican kids to see a black hero.

You need Black [people] sometimes to understand things about Black culture.

Women that look like me [the black ones] need to see more of themselves in social media, in film, in music.

I have painted and drawn bulls for some time because of their density and all the symbolism they carry.

I was very fortunate to be able to represent an icon to many African Americans.

I’m a black woman who is from Central Falls, Rhode Island. I’m dark skinned. I’m quirky. I’m shy. I’m strong. I’m guarded. I’m weak at times. I’m sensual. I’m not overtly sexual. I am so many things in so many ways and I will never see myself on screen. And the reason I will never see myself up on screen is because that does not translate with being black.