Courtney A. Kemp Quotes

We're all complaining about diversity in Hollywood, but we've got to address the colorism within the black community of Hollywood first.

On a radio drama, I'd like to feel that I had just as much chance of playing Mr. Darcy as anyone else because I can sound like him, yet many radio producers find it very difficult to extend their imaginations to employing anyone who's non-white.

Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.

When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit, their ability to assess and understand people accurately is compromised.

I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?

I don't think the job of the antiracist is to convert the far-out heathen racist, or give them their 'come to Jesus' moment, as it's called. They'll either have those or they won't, and usually, when they have them, it's not because of something someone said per se; it's because of some life crisis that makes them rethink.

Why is the world that I see around me mixed, and why is the world I see in movies filled with all white people? Why does it have to be like that?

I wasn't burdened by a personal history of prejudice. It's part of why I thought Barack could win.

The broad brush of stereotyping is what least appeals to people of color.

There's a belonging problem in Hollywood. Who dictates who belongs? The very body who dictates that looks all one way.

I didn't like my hair and makeup one time on a photo shoot, and my publicist told me, 'You should just be happy with it - they haven't had a black girl on the cover since forever.' She's no longer my publicist.

Hollywood's racist.

Al Campanis made people finally understand what goes on behind closed doors - that there is racism in baseball.

We need a more substantive conversation around race relations and the way people of color are treated.

I don't want my daughter to ever feel that she can't do something because of her skin colour.

There's racism everywhere in the world; it's not just Sweden, it's everywhere, but other than that I had a pretty okay upbringing.

Some things you never really fully understand unless you are actually black and you experience how it feels when someone treats you differently based on your skin colour.

I don't think people realize what it's like for people of color to audition for film and TV.

Hollywood had a history of whitewashing and not representing.

Fashion week is not an episode of 'Girls' or 'Friends,' where I'm OK that there is not a black person in sight because I honestly believe these characters don't come into contact with - therefore don't have - any black friends. No, in the case of Fashion week, it feels wrong.

I can only say that sometimes skin colour does make a difference.

When I first started in modeling, I went back to England, and it was really hard, because I would go around to the agencies and they would be like, 'We already have one mixed-race black girl.'

I've been asked far too often, 'Can you be blacker?' I've gotten done with auditions and heard, 'We're not going to go black with this character.'

The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color.

The truth is, no, we don't live in a post-racial state anywhere in America, and this is particularly true in Hollywood.