Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Dorothy Dandridge

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Dorothy Dandridge.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Dorothy Dandridge

Dorothy Jean Dandridge was an American actress, singer and dancer. She is the first African-American film star to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, which was for her performance in Carmen Jones (1954). Dandridge performed as a vocalist in venues such as the Cotton Club and the Apollo Theater. During her early career, she performed as a part of The Wonder Children, later The Dandridge Sisters, and appeared in a succession of films, usually in uncredited roles.

If one person in a thousand criticized me while all the others cheered, I didn't hear the cheers.
If I were white, I could capture the world.
I can't play a slave. — © Dorothy Dandridge
I can't play a slave.
Somehow, people just like to look at me.
If I were white I could capture the world.
It [prejudice] is such a waste. It makes you logy and half-alive. It gives you nothing. It takes away.
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