“We're the curator for the African-American experience for the past, pr...” — Linda Johnson Rice Quote

“We're the curator for the African-American experience for the past, present and future. That's my job.”

“I have always drawn strength from my late mother's life. When Eunice Johnson set up the first major fashion show for African-American audiences more than 50 years ago, she did so at a time when black Americans, especially black women, were still fighting for a seat at the table - any table.”

“The key is to service a market that has not been serviced to its full potential.”

“The very fact that Barack Obama - an African-American - was twice elected to the presidency will always be the lead line in that hard-to-meld, gold-plated paragraph.”

“In 1900, 180-plus out of every 1,000 African-American babies died.”

“I think that whenever there's a good script we try to make that happen, but it's all based off of a good story, a good script, but I don't believe you should do it just because it's African-American.”