If you win, if you make money. If you do quality work, then other people of color, whatever color that is, can get in the door.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
What you find in the theatre is that if you're good, no matter what color you are, the audience will buy that - whoever you are.
It's about you. If you win, it's you; if you lose, it's you. Black and white. Nowhere to hide.
Even though my mother had told me growing up that, 'If you win, nobody cares what color you are,' that wasn't necessarily true in the N.F.L.
I love putting people to work of color.
As I got further into my career, as a character of color, if I was going to have the types of opportunities I felt I deserved, and continue to have them, I was going to have to start creating those opportunities for myself.
I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.
You always make a film with the hope that all types of people will want to see your work and that it doesn't matter about your color, but unfortunately it still does.
There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.
You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.
You win any which way you can. You do what you have to do to get by. That's the way it works in any job.