The NAACP Image Award winners for Entertainer of the Year:
| Year | Winner |
|---|---|
| 1987 | Patti LaBelle |
| 1988 | Dionne Warwick |
| 1989 | Lionel Richie |
| 1990 | Eddie Murphy |
| 1991 | Oprah Winfrey |
| 1992 | Whoopi Goldberg |
| 1993 | Patti LaBelle |
| 1994 | Michael Jackson |
| 1995 | Whitney Houston |
| 1996 | Quincy Jones |
| 1997 | Denzel Washington |
| 1998 | Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds |
| 1999 | Will Smith |
| 2000 | Halle Berry |
| 2001 | Steve Harvey |
| 2004 | Beyoncé Knowles |
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“O comfort-killing night, image of hell,
Dim register and notary of shame,
Black stage for tragedies and murders fell,
Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)
“I wish not to be given a title or an appointed position. I can and will do more good if I were made a Federal Agent at Large, and I will help best by doing it my way through my communications with people of all ages. First and Foremost I am an entertainer but all I need is the Federal Credentials.”
—Elvis Presley (1935–1977)
“The absence on the panel of anyone who could become pregnant accidentally or discover her salary was five thousand dollars a year less than that of her male counterpart meant there was a hole in the consciousness of the committee that empathy, however welcome, could not entirely fill.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1953)