A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't…

The usual dog about the town is much inclined to play the clown.

— T. S. Eliot

The writer's job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.

— Kenzaburo Oe

“Be a clown, be a clown All the world loves a clown Show ‘em tricks, tell ‘em jokes And you’ll only stop with top…

— Cole Porter

Be a clown , be a clown, All the world loves a clown. Act the fool , play the calf, And you'll always have…

— Cole Porter

No, there's other actor who could play The Clown in Slipknot.

— Shawn Crahan

My ideas are a curse. They spring from a radical discontent with the awful order of things. I play clown. I play carpenter. I…

— Anne Sexton

I was raised joking. You clown, you clown people. That's kind of how we come up.

— Chris Redd

My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and…

— Malcolm X

I didn't learn black history in school. I had to go find Malcolm X books.

— Rza

When you have a large amount of the workforce being laid off, some of them have no other choice but to go out there…

— Daymond John

“The war that killed my grandfather and great-uncles and thousands of other blacks is only a footnote in our history books.”

— Cristina García

Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate…

— Richard Allen

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing…

— Wole Soyinka

“Any ministry to black people which is not designed to effect their empowerment is designed to perpetuate their enslavement.”

— Anonymous

“Later that year, the Voting Rights Act opened the door for thousands to register for the first time.”

— Junius Williams