Poetry is the plough that turns up time in such a way that the abyssal strata of time, its black earth, appear… — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share Image
The great thing about 'Mirzapur' is that no one character is clear black or white, every character is working in a grey… — Shriya Pilgaonkar Copy Share Image
Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I want little black girls, little black boys to know that they can be themselves because they do belong for who that… — Vick Hope Copy Share Image
Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Ben Carson said black people worked for less. I have breaking news: we built this joint for free. We didn't build it… — Angela Rye Copy Share Image
I think it's important to represent black women and our natural hair. Not wearing a weave is totally beautiful and acceptable. — Zoe Kravitz Copy Share Image
If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
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What I really resent most about people sticking labels on you is that it cuts off all the other elements of what… — Siouxsie Sioux Copy Share Image
It's very simple to me. President Trump's handling of the economy, his support for historically black colleges and his criminal justice initiatives… — Vernon Jones Copy Share Image
It is not the destiny of Black America to repeat white America's mistakes. But we will, if we mistake the trappings of… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I always felt culturally adrift as a child because I'm mixed race. I've had to deal with that since I was little.… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
I don't think it serves any minority or underrepresented group to be coddled. Because the world won't coddle you. So I actually… — Jessica Alba Copy Share Image
I write from a people's point of view. I love people because I understand them. I understand an enemy, I understand a… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In the space of less than seven days, I attended a track meet in Boston, flew from there to Bowling Green for… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
If you love Black people, why are you destroying Haiti? If you love Black people, why did you, [Hillary] Clinton, stop them… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
The southern white Baptists now want to integrate with the black Baptist church. I say that would be the end of it.… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Fight one more round. When your arms are so tired that you can hardly lift your hands to come on guard, fight… — James J. Corbett Copy Share Image
Because I know that the early Greeks and Romans and the early Europeans at that age did not see racism as we… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
Mattia was right: the days had slipped over her skin like a solvent, one after the other, each removing a very thin… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
If it wasn't for the British musicians, a lot of us black musicians in America would still be catchin' the hell that… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
The sad reality of it is, as black artists in the industry, we still have to work 10 times harder to get… — Ashton Sanders Copy Share Image
I want to explain how exhausted I am. Even in my dreams. How I wake up tired. How I’m being drowned by… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
I think white people like to tell Asian people how they should feel about race because they're too scared to tell black… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
There is an appetite for things that are different and a story with Black characters that's going to appeal to a lot… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
Nothing is a greater stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black and detestable one,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
When I first saw Lauren Anderson I was like 'Oh my god there are black ballerinas!' I was very surprised because I… — Michaela DePrince Copy Share Image
I understand that life is not black and white, everything has a different hand, lots of them, I act according to the… — Danila Kozlovsky Copy Share Image
In Africa, kids don't look at black athletes and say, 'They're different from us.' They look at them and say, 'That can… — Luol Deng Copy Share Image
Black ink was always my favorite. I loved it. And then one day I realized that the only thing I ever wanted… — Pierre Soulages Copy Share Image
I was just passing buy some racks of socks and remembered I needed some. So I picked 'em up. 1 black, 2… — Lucas Grabeel Copy Share Image
That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white. — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
My idea is to integrate black stars into mainstream stars. It hasn't been explored properly. That's what Im doing in Hollywood. — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
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