The legacies that parents and church and teachers left to my generation of Black children were priceless but not material: a living… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
I began to practise day and night, and the more I did, the more I was overwhelmed by the tremendous achievement of… — Gilad Atzmon Copy Share Image
If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing is going to happen to you if you throw salt on the floor, stand under a ladder, or see eight black… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
I became aware of how the world is and how the white establishment plays black people against each other. — Claudette Colvin Copy Share Image
Sensibility appears to me to be neither good nor evil in itself, but in its application. Under the influence of Christian principle,… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Design in black and white. Add color for emphasis, when your design is complete. — Diane Wilson Copy Share Image
To me "King Kong" is a metaphor for America's fear of the black male. And to me that's obvious. All right? So… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood. — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
Some schools have decided to openly support the anti-capitalist Black Lives Matter group - often fully aware that they have the statutory… — Kemi Badenoch Copy Share Image
The moth don't care when he sees the flame He might get burned, but he's in the game And once he's in,… — Aimee Mann Copy Share Image
Women are so perverse. Look how they won't wear black when nothing suits them so well! — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
My mother was a member of the Cape Coloured community. 'Coloured' is the South African word for the half-caste community that was… — Peter Abrahams Copy Share Image
You don't need someone destroying you when your own people are the worst messengers possible. And this is what black people in… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
I'm not talking about my children's father'he's a wonderful black man, the hero of my life, and he's never disrespected or betrayed… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
Thank you," the young mother said again. "Thank you." "The Black Tower protects," Logain heard himself say. "Always." "I will send him… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
I tend to play characters that arent supposed to black or written black. — Megalyn Echikunwoke Copy Share Image
Just making 'Black Rainbow' was like my minimum requirement before death, so that I could die with some honour and not in… — Panos Cosmatos Copy Share Image
The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest,… — Julius Charles Hare Copy Share Image
For me, the highlight was meeting all the Motown acts, as I adore black soul music. I met Stevie Wonder who I… — Tony Blackburn Copy Share Image
There is a reason why one man is born black and with other disadvantages, while another is born white with great advantages.… — Joseph Fielding Smith Copy Share Image
Acknowledging the realities of structural and institutional racism is hard for conscionable white people. It might ask them to consider how they're… — Emily Raboteau Copy Share Image
It's been 50 years since I was on the roof of my parents' house shooting Hag in a Black Leather Jacket when… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I was born on an island with 96 percent of the people black. But all the power and the economy was in… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide… — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
A lot of sequins for New Year's! Red, green, white - I fail at all of that because I'm always in black.… — Ashley Benson Copy Share Image
Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
In the USA, it's harder for a black man with no criminal record to find a job than a white man with… — Benjamin Jealous Copy Share Image
Punctuationally speaking, wonder is a period at the end of a statement we've long taken for granted, suddenly looking up and seeing… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
The first joke I got on the air I remember clearly. Dennis McNicholas and Robert Carlock wrote a sketch where they were… — Michael Schur Copy Share Image
General relativity predicts that time ends inside black holes because the gravitational collapse squeezes matter to infinite density. — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
Black coffee’s a lot like whiskey, you know? All devil and no trimmin’s. Always liked my sins pure and take it as… — Jack Ketchum Copy Share Image
A black man will be elected President of the United States. I'm sorry, that's in the year 10,000. — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
Then she told me why a tiger is gold and black. It has two ways. The gold side leaps with its fierce… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Coming from the '50s, things were very violent. We were still being lynched. If I drove down through the South with my… — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
I can no more disown (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
