If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
Its really easy to get colors right. Its really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a… — Donna Karan Copy Share Image
Once you dive into the African-American struggle or whatever you want to call it and you look past that, you realize that… — Joey Badass Copy Share Image
Since I learned the truth in Mecca, my dearest friends have come to include all kinds -- some Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My mother was a stout woman with a man's name - Billie. She was plain-faced with honest eyes - no black grease… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
You couldn’t pay me a billion dollars to take marijuana. I don’t really like coke anymore. I’m scared of ecstasy. The one… — Courtney Love Copy Share Image
If, in [Federal Housing Administration] application, black folks were excluded from it, then you have to override that by going after those… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on what you look like. I'm black. So… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
I am black,” she said, and a shudder rippled through me. “I am foul with a thousand years of demon curses. Don’t… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
Black Bolt is typically a stoic leader, part of a larger cast of Inhumans who get their hands dirty in ways that… — Charles Soule Copy Share Image
David Simon [the creator of The Wire] and I have a running controversy for years. It all stems from a telephone call… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it-- it was the black kitten's fault entirely. — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Tommy told Sal about the strange white-cloth figure with black stitches that he had found on the front porch. "Sounds like Pillsbury… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
If I could take all my parts with me when I go somewhere / and not have to say to one of… — Pat Parker Copy Share Image
The Black public sector middle class teachers, policeman, firemen, and post office workers, those jobs have been on the decline but there… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
America is not all white people. It's not all black people. It's not all Mexican people. We together, and we all relate… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
My dog does not care where heat comes from, but he cares that it comes, and soon. Indeed he considers my ability… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
That's where Dr. [Martin Luther] King is mixed up. His goals should be the solution of the problem of the black man… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Buckminster Fuller was down in Pennsylvania, then he'd come up and go to his island in Maine. He wanted to remain a… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
Everyday, day & night, we hear the lies that September 11th is the worst tragedy, worst accident, and worst crime to ever… — Malik Zulu Shabazz Copy Share Image
There's a man outside with a big black mustache. - Tell him I've got one. — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
I look in the mirror, and what I see is someone who has never grown up - a crashing sentimentalist who alternates… — Peter Sellers Copy Share Image
Being gay is harder than being black. I didn't have to come out black. I didn't have to tell my parents about… — Wanda Sykes Copy Share Image
Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:/ To make a poet black, and bid him sing! — Countee Cullen Copy Share Image
God alone can do what seems impossible. This is the promise of his grace: 'I will restore to you the years that… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
This great son of the world, Madiba, showed us the way. Whether you are white, black yellow or brown you are all… — Kenneth Kaunda Copy Share Image
I dug the idea that I was being perceived as the black sheep of my family, but for me, it was like,… — Larry Bishop Copy Share Image
I want to just take a moment to thank the Teabaggers. Thank you so much for helping us pass health care, for… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
If you only have work clothes - the black trouser and ribbed turtleneck you got four years ago at the Gap -… — Stacy London Copy Share Image
Growing up on our estate, we were all different colours, but we were all really poor. I never really realised that black… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
We've seen many Black men lose their life over the past couple of years. Not only just heard about it. — Sterling K. Brown Copy Share Image
The truth is there are people who are quite informed who still vote against their interests. I would argue that, as a… — Marc Lamont Hill Copy Share Image
I just hate when things get labeled as "black movies." I don't say, "Oh, this weekend, I want to see an all-white… — Taraji P. Henson Copy Share Image
My biggest inspiration is black America and what they've done in the arts. I have always felt like an outsider in America,… — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
I was brought up in black neighborhoods in South Baltimore. And we really felt like we were very black. We acted black… — Jerry Leiber Copy Share Image
I have a dream, and a plan, to combine the commercial possibilities of Valentine's Day with the substance and meaning of black… — Mo Rocca Copy Share Image
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