It is the mark of little men to like only what they know…

And all was black and still, and black and cold, and black and dead, and black.

— Anonymous

My mother was gone. The whole world should be black and cold. Nothing should look beautiful.

— Rick Riordan

“Yet even so the darkness thickened, until it covered his eyes and filled his nose and stopped his ears, so he could not see…

— George R. R. Martin

I just always feel that any black art should address our perpetual struggle for progress and freedom, period. There's no way around it. The…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

I think that one of the positions we have taken around the question of race, is that we already know. We know. We know.…

— Claudia Rankine

In America, I feel black with all of the rubbish that comes with it.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Hadar, the only time I feel black is when I look at my hands," Spencer said, spreading his fingers out in front of him.…

— Paul Beatty

I'm a black woman every day, and I'm not confused about that. I'm not worried about that. I don't need to have a discussion…

— Shonda Rhimes

I just feel Black women, we get slept on a lot and people don't recognize our greatness in our curls and in chocolate skin.

— Ari Lennox

You absolutely feel, as a black actress, that you've got to ride the wave because there's just so few roles. I hate to play…

— Viola Davis

“Real life is disobliging. People like to think, or feel, in black and white. Having to assess the relative values of all those intermediate…

— Colin Watson

I feel as proud to be Jewish as I feel to be black

— Sophie Okonedo

When I cannot get that moment of truth where you feel yourself opening up like a flower, I absolutely loathe the bloody camera. I…

— Nastassja Kinski

Every now and then you get a nice Jewish kid who likes black people and they would come in, and it would be a…

— Mike Epps

I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men…

— Will Smith