Blackface Quotes

• I have a huge issue with blackface.

  

  Rachel Dolezal
  • Issues
  • Huge
  • Blackface

• At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Clothes
  • Frightening
  • Hung

• I think when black performers performed in blackface, they were kind of taking back slave songs, but it was still a little bit iffy because they were performing, a lot of times, for white audiences who found it hilarious.

  

  Cecile McLorin Salvant
  • Song
  • Black
  • Kind

• Just reading that - just reading that a person can be black and still perform in blackface, making fun of black people for a living, and at the same time be a genius and be an incredible entertainer and at the same time be extremely conflicted and feel like - just feel terrible for doing that, essentially, which is what Bert Williams felt, from what I gather, from what I read - all of that just made - was so incredible to me.

  

  Cecile McLorin Salvant
  • People
  • Fun
  • Black