No female - young, old, black or white - could ever play the knight-on-charger with meager experience. If she presented herself as… — Froma Harrop Copy Share Image
I'm the black sheep in a family of cops. I understand how difficult the job is. — Montel Vontavious Porter Copy Share Image
These days I find myself wanting to avoid being pigeon-holed, ghettoized, held in a different category than other authors. And when people… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
It is an impressive place that smells like the 1950s, when everyone wore starch white shirts and black slacks and perfect crewcuts… — Elf Sternberg Copy Share Image
Were going to fight racism not with racism, but were going to fight with solidarity. We say were not going to fight… — Fred Hampton Copy Share Image
What's funny is that in the '90s, growing up in the black church, everyone around you was older, so your swag became… — Kirk Franklin Copy Share Image
But black folks have never really been optimists. We've been prisoners of hope, and hope is qualitatively different from optimism in the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The fact is, in the minds of many, Trayvon Martin received the appropriate punishment for a true crime: He was black, male… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
For I am I: ergo, the truth of myself; my own sphinx, conflict, chaos, vortex—asymmetric to all rhythms, oblique to all paths.… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
You know what? I never really factor Hollywood into anything. I'm a black actor, so I can't really control what Hollywood thinks.… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
“Look at how beautiful this ink is. Now do you understand why I needed clear water? Water is the brightness of the… — Françoise Place Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in writing about people, including young children who are not able to speak for themselves. As in my… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
It’s just what they are — they’re jokes…most jokes are about Jewish people, rednecks, black folks…I can’t determine what offends another person. — Paula Deen Copy Share Image
I’ll be real discreet,” Tank said. As discreet as a six-foot-six, no-neck guy weighing three hundred and fifty pounds, all dressed in… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
At present, black children are more segregated in their public schools than at any time since 1968. In the inner-city schools I… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Lots of white people think black people are stupid. They are stupid themselves for thinking so, but regulation will not make them… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
There was no black or white. Someone who had been good her entire life could, in fact, do something evil. People were… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
For interiors, if you have a basic sofa, you can add fun throw pillows, and cool lighting to make the space more… — Jeremiah Brent Copy Share Image
I'm a 48-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer. I'm also… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There was a young lady named Mae Who smoked without stopping all day; As pack followed pack, Her lungs first turned black,… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
I started getting seriously into music when I was a kid. 1978 was my big year. It just hit home. That was… — Chris Reifert Copy Share Image
The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde. — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
The fact is that in my prep school, I went to a boarding school, 39 young men graduated from that prep school.… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I wear black diamonds instead of regular ones because I’m not flashy, just flossssy. — Justin Bieber Copy Share Image
