I am carried in my shadow like a violin in its black case

I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African…

— Jesmyn Ward

When you go to a club it's not about being black or white or heavy or thick. I'm shaking my ass because I want…

— Miley Cyrus

The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white…

— Thomas Sowell

When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone…

— Alexander Gordon Smith

The term "black metal" has become a lot looser, or can include a larger range of sounds and extra-musical aesthetics, not just Satan and…

— Colin Marston

How can you be more subject; black woman in a white man's world?

— Maureen Duffy

We have to build our own power. We have to win every single political office we can, where we have a majority of black…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit…

— Gore Vidal

Black music has always known, and not been afraid to acknowledge just how high the stakes of Black thought are. To summarize the final…

— Frank B. Wilderson III

I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.

— Mike Tyson

If soot stains your tunic, dye it black. This is vengeance.

— R. Scott Bakker

Hollywood is so fixated on keeping it that way because it's generating the buzz, but that representation isn't right. I definitely feel like it's…

— John Boyega

Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was in perpetual…

— Fay Weldon

There ain't no such thing as black Muslims. That's how they tried to cut off all my brothers in the rest of the world…

— Muhammad Ali

We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our…

— Steven Biko