Cant wait to get that black American Express. So I can show them white folks how to really pull the race card. — Cyhi Da Prynce Copy Share Image
The rise of fascism in Europe sent most Americans home. Some black American communists who had emigrated to the Soviet Union perished… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
Other countries get to support/cheer their athletes and everything is fine. As soon as I support Black American athletes, I get criticized. — Floyd Mayweather Copy Share Image
The performance of black American identity feels very different from actually living in a black body. There's a dissonance between inside and… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I used to go to soul nights because I loved dancing, and so did my friends, and we loved the music. We… — Rick Astley Copy Share Image
I think what I listen to now is what I listened to as a kid which is kind of black American soul.… — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
Damn, boo-hoo, sad story, black american dad story. Know that I'm your sister's kid but that still don't explain the love that… — Drake Copy Share Image
I did tell the census man I was white, and I'm telling you, I started getting offers for the black American Express… — Tiffany Haddish Copy Share Image
. . . what happened, of course, was that I was writing a play set in the 1940's that was supposed to… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
We really are 15 countries, and it's remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My dad was never one of those dads you could ask for a quarter if you saw a gumball machine. Instead he… — S.A. Bodeen Copy Share Image
For me going down in history being the first black American to win the gold, I think more colored people are going… — Gabby Douglas Copy Share Image
Even though the agency kept me pretty busy, I auditioned for every play and film I could find. But they all wanted… — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
I don't see a huge difference between the African condition and the black American condition. The only real difference is that black… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
In the era of slavery, you could be a so-called Afro-Cuban one day and a so-called Black American the next day, or… — Gerald Horne Copy Share Image
Dad's fear, especially when I was 18, was that, in the music industry in the U.K., there wasn't really anybody I would… — Alesha Dixon Copy Share Image
“Lieutenant Linh said, “Thank you for this valuable information, it gives us an opportunity to take counter-measures to nullify the American attack!… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
There's no reason why you can't say "August Wilson, playwright" even though all of my work, every single play, is about black… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
There's nothing on this green earth that a liberal progressive fears more than a black American who wants a better life and… — Allen West Copy Share Image
“I advise you to be suspicious of any black American whose family does not claim a blood connection to Native Americans. That’s… — Baratunde Thurston Copy Share Image
I joke to people in the press that I realize I'm not black, I'm actually white. But I've got these roots in… — Glenn Hughes Copy Share Image
I'm a black American playwright. I couldn't be anything else. I make my art out of black American culture; they're all cut… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
“You look like a black American" was his ultimate compliment, which he told her when she wore a nice dress, or when… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
In looking at difficulties in the black American community over the years, it has always astounded me how much white Americans take… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
I try to convey what it feels like and sounds like and smells like and looks like inside of my particular skin,… — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
We do not have an American culture. We have a white American culture and a black American culture. So when those two… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
In the end, so much of what I wanted to do was to have a body of work that exhaustively looked at… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
We were a very politically active family. My father was one of the first lawyers in South Africa to have a black… — Trevor Rabin Copy Share Image
All the best British groups were inspired by black American music. With The Beatles, it was Motown and the blues. With me,… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
The reality of Barack Obama being the president of the United States - quite possibly the most powerful nation in the world… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I happen to be a twin. I grew up half of my life with someone who looks and sounds like me. And… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Well, when you think about it black American culture evolved over three and a half centuries. Every minute under which they lived… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
'America's Dad' is what we called Bill Cosby. And we called him that because, well, what a revolutionary way to put it.… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
I'm like two different people. The way I sing comes from the music I listened to when I was younger, from black… — Lisa Stansfield Copy Share Image
I am a black American, I say, and thus announce my atavistic connection to all others who live as black Americans, to… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
I didn't like any British music before The Beatles. For me, it was all about black American music. But then I became… — Lulu Copy Share Image
Hip Hop is the rebirth of civilization. For people who were disconnected from their continent, from their language, from their culture, and… — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
The black man in North America was economically sick and that was evident in one simple fact: as a consumer, he got… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“Los Angeles was like a B-Grade prostitute. She let anyone in, looked less than average, and once inside, you realized there was… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
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