White Audience Quotes

I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. That's not what I grew up around.

During all the years I entertained at the Baby Grand night club in Harlem, 90 percent of the audience was white. But when I tried to break Into television, I was told that white folks wouldn't understand what I was talking about.

When I first played at the Apollo, the owner didn't even know who Sharon Jones was. The Apollo had never seen so many white people coming uptown.

When I was a kid, and Elvis Presley broke through to a middle class, white audience, it was a sociological phenomenon that lasted through the Beatles and even a bit through Fleetwood Mac.

I want a lot of people to see my movies. More black people. More white people. I want to make that connection.

When I go to the movies, I'm expected to identify with all of the characters, and most of them are white. But when you put a black character in there, somehow the white audience isn't expected to identify with them. That's a problem.

There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.

Even if it's a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.

I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.

I see lots of people online making fun of me cause at my shows there's a bunch of white people.

There are nine million people who see me in the ring and hate my guts. Most of them are white. That's okay. Just spell my name right.

NPR editors and journalists found themselves caught in a game of trying to please a leadership team who did not want to hear stories on the air about conservatives, the poor, or anyone who didn't fit their profitable design of NPR as the official voice of college-educated, white, liberal-leaning, upper-income America.

With 'Hamilton,' what's cool about the show is that even super-old white people come to see the show and hang on every word, it's that good.

In the late '90s, R&B was dominant in the radio, and the white kids were taking it mainstream.

Ninety-five percent of my audience was white.

I can't really hear the audience applause when I'm on stage. I'm totally immersed in the piece. But sometimes I get a lot of it and wonder, "Now, why did they applaud here?" If it's a white crowd, they usually applaud because they think it's a pretty movement. If it's a black crowd, it's usually because they identify with the message.

I'd say 95 percent of my audience was white. They were mostly kind of older hipster folks like myself.

More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result of my record helping people to accept hip hop.