People say that it was degrading for an Olympic champion to run against a horse, but what was I supposed to do?… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
Of all my prosecutorsnot one is my peer, but each and all are my political sovereigns; and had your honor submitted my… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The black sky was underpinned with long silver streaks that looked like scaffolding and depth on depth behind it were thousands of… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Jesus was not a white man; He was not a black man. He came from that part of the world that touches… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Our problem is that we don't have enough people in America, including black people, who are progressive and willing to sacrifice their… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
People tend to think of gentrification in terms of race because it's presented that way, and I think it's presented that way… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers. Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I wasn't allowed to play in some universities in the United States and out of twenty-five concerts, twenty-three were canceled unless I… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
I'd see the bus pass every day… But to me, that was a way of life; we had no choice but to… — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
Black is the most slimming of all Colors. It is the most flattering. You can wear black at any Time. You can… — Christian Dior Copy Share Image
What is the problem with the advertising industry is they're still, for me, what I call in Africa is the colonial mind… — Berhan Ahmed Copy Share Image
Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity. — Randall Kennedy Copy Share Image
There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Of my two `handicaps,' being female put more obstacles in my path than being black. — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
It had long been true, and prisoners knew this better than anyone, that the poorer you were the more likely you were… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
No candidate at present is thinking of justice for the Black and the Red and the Brown in this manner. And none… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
I think because I came into journalism by way of the Black Panther Party - and not J-school or a corporate bourgeois… — Mumia Abu-Jamal Copy Share Image
My English teacher has no face. She has uncombed stringy hair that droops on her shoulders. The hair is black from her… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
One can take a neon tube and simply paint it black on the front. So it would read as a black letter… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
I was raised in a completely black world. In those days, if a white woman married a black man, she lived as… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
I never have a problem with being black. I have a problem with the easy association of what that means to some… — Mark Bradford Copy Share Image
We're not our skin of grime, we're not our dread bleak dusty imageless locomotive, we're all beautiful golden sunflowers inside, we're blessed… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
I do think it's well over-time to have a female Doctor Who. I think a gay, black female Doctor Who would be… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing… — Malcolm-Jamal Warner Copy Share Image
I am Charles Mingus. Half-black man. Yellow man. Half-yellow. Not even yellow, nor white enough to pass for nothing but black and… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
The Egyptians had the locusts and in the Middle Ages there was the Black Death with the rats, but tourists are the… — Richard Conniff Copy Share Image
With theatre, we all agree to suspend our disbelief about so many things, but not about race. It's totally OK to have… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
The emancipation of man is the emancipation of labor and the emancipation of labor is the freeing of that basic majority of… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I go to castings and see several black and Asian girls, then I get to the show and look around there's just… — Jourdan Dunn Copy Share Image
Black History Month should be celebrated everyday. It's a month that's kind of sad to me, because I am reminded of the… — Tamara James Copy Share Image
We feel like 'Lost' deserved a real resolution, not a 'snow globe, waking up in bed, it's all been a dream, cut… — Carlton Cuse Copy Share Image
In school tests, there's only one answer for each question, and you might get zero or half points if you're wrong. But… — Hideaki Anno Copy Share Image
