I've always said if you're comparing movies to music, then horror would be the black metal of the categories. — Lauren Ashley Carter Copy Share Image
Even after the child, the life of the black child was saved, but that same white man will have to toss him… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I don't want to live in a monoculture of any kind. I don't want to live in a wealthy monoculture, a black… — Richard Benjamin Copy Share Image
I've been getting interested in reimagining folk songs and writing songs that should have existed but didn't, particularly around the Civil War… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
I would say for every successful black woman in America or in the world, really, it's difficult to be the head of… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
Black women have been screaming about famous predators like R&B singer R. Kelly, who allegedly preys on black girls, for well over… — Tarana Burke Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King would celebrate the symbolic status (of having a black president), but he would examine what the real substance was.… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
A good leg will fall, a straight back will stoop, a black beard will turn white, a curled pate will grow bald,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
[M]en, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to… — Moderata Fonte Copy Share Image
A very elementary exercise in psychology, not to be dignified by the name of psycho-analysis, showed me, on looking at my notebook,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Being a black woman, there's so many different sides of us. We are funny, silly, romantic, professional, smart, and we have good… — Lauren London Copy Share Image
Black power is organizing the rage of Black people and putting new hard questions and demands to white America. — Charles Hamilton Houston Copy Share Image
The problem is poverty. And it hides the problem. We often associate black churches with a history of protest. But prosperity gospel… — Anthony B Pinn Copy Share Image
Believing in things you cannot see Even with my trembling arms I want to protect someone dear to me The place my… — Kanon Wakeshima Copy Share Image
Life is much more complex than the black-and-white sound bites that you get on television. There are nuances and shades of gray. — Joe Berlinger Copy Share Image
I can rap in a London accent, make weird faces, wear spandex, wigs, and black lipstick. I can be more creative than… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
You mix the affluence of the white and the poverty of the black and you do not get a civilized society. Integration… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
My uniform: grey suit, white shirt, grey tie and tie bar, grey cardigan and black wingtips. — Thom Browne Copy Share Image
Al was standing a bare three feet away, his mood almost jovial as he took the paper and it vanished in a… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. In our hands it develops and changes, through more or less arbitrary… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
There are not many males, black or white, who wish to get involved with a woman who's committed to her own development. — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
The game really started in 1969 with Pot Black, but in 1970, along came Alex Higgins and the game took off. — John Virgo Copy Share Image
People only say I'm angry because I'm black and I'm a woman. But all sorts of people write with strong feeling, the… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
You need to look hot now that you've got three guys giving you the eye."" Three?" "Sweet blue-eyed blond trapper... Muscled blond… — Jana Oliver Copy Share Image
Its more than a simple belief that there is good and that it should fight the evil in the world. It's a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A black widow loves her mate then kills him. A praying mantis loves her mate then eats him. Women love my dad,… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
Education remains one of the black community's most enduring values. It is sustained by the belief that freedom and education go hand… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
The stone is a mirror which works poorly. Nothing in it but dimness. Your dimness or its dimness, who's to say? In… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community, — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
“Oh Maker, what did they really say about your black creation? I think you made a beautiful work of art on a… — Chinonye J. Chidolue Copy Share Image
There never has been a desire on the part of the government that the struggle of Black people in America should be… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
The most formidable of all the ills that threaten the future of the Union arises from the presence of a black population… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Any community seriously concerned with its own freedom has to be concerned about other people's freedom as well. The victory of oppressed… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
Writing 'Native Guard,' I didn't know I was working on a single book. I began writing that book because I was interested… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
The problem is that affirmative action could never really get at the issue of corporate power in the workplace, and so you… — Cornel West Copy Share Image