Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Roxie Roker

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Bahamian actress Roxie Roker.

Last updated on December 25, 2024.

Roxie Albertha Roker was an American actress who portrayed Helen Willis on the CBS sitcom The Jeffersons (1975–1985), half of the first interracial couple to be shown on regular prime time television. Roker is the mother of rock musician Lenny Kravitz and paternal grandmother of actress Zoë Kravitz.

Bahamian - Actress | August 28, 1929 - December 2, 1995

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I wish there was more for minorities than sitcoms. I'd like to see a soap opera about blacks. People don't live in isolation anymore.

Roxie Roker

I was raised in a very, very loving household. I had quite unusual parents, and my father has always been my hero.

Roxie Roker

Black people are achievers; we're survivors.

Roxie Roker

They were looking for someone to play the neighbor of the Jeffersons. I thought it would be a nice trip to Los Angeles. When you get a call like that, you don't expect much to come of it.

Roxie Roker

I was very much a part of the civil rights era, so, of course, my fantasy was to marry some outstanding black gentleman, a leader - someone like Martin Luther King who was doing something for black people.

Roxie Roker

I don't like that putdown: that when you're trying to achieve, you're trying to be white. That makes me mad.

Roxie Roker

I felt Helen Willis was in tune with the situation of a black woman married to a white man, and she had no problem being black.

Roxie Roker