When you are trying to get a shot, you can't be pleasing everybody. And I tend to be sort of collaborative and… — Liz W. Garcia Copy Share Image
This is a column collection, or as one colleague called it, "history in real time," recounting my perspective on the highs and… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the temptation to hold overly-simplified beliefs and… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the turning of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Thank you, God, because I am lucky. Also let's face it, it turns out I'm black. And I'm having a career quite… — Whoopi Goldberg Copy Share Image
There is still an assumption among many people that to be black is to be lower class. In the last fifteen to… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
[My picture A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ] was a way of demonstrating that there… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
You have to separate artistic ability from ethnic origin. Not only am I not black, I am also not a woman, therefore… — Gavin Hood Copy Share Image
On my second space walk, I was riding the Canadarm, heading down toward the payload bay of the space shuttle, and I… — Dafydd Williams Copy Share Image
It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness. — Yvette Clarke Copy Share Image
In many ways for black actors there's been two leading guys: It's Will Smith vs. Denzel [Washington]. — Michael B. Jordan Copy Share Image
I'm a whitebread cracker. That's my favorite white person slur: "whitebread". The other day, someone came up to me and said, "What's… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
The use of soul-force for turning stones into bread would have been considered, as it is still considered, as black magic. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will… — Ralph Abernathy Copy Share Image
My struggle has allowed me to transcend that sense of shame and stigma identified with my being a Black gay man. Having… — Marlon Riggs Copy Share Image
[James] Baldwin was a celebrity. A TV show like Kenneth Clark could put him aside of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
Surfers are the ‘throw-aheads’ of mankind, not the dregs; they aren’t the black sheep of humanity, but the futurists and they are… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
I was four or five, and my mother gave me a big black tablet, because I kept complaining that I was bored.… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I think until Britain acknowledges just how much of a presence black people had here before the Sixties, then there are certain… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
Sometimes even when the book is over I don't know who's good and who's bad. It's really more interesting, I think, to… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
There is, as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age, a very close chemical relation between coal and diamonds. It is the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through… — Lisa Bonet Copy Share Image
There was never a moment in George Carlin's career where he dipped below an A+. When he came out with the "Hippie… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Sunday at 11 o'clock is the most segregated hour in America. You have black churches; you have white churches; you have Hispanic… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in the question of how we perceive something, how consciousness goes from one thing, like looking at you in… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
Gazing into the mirror, I saw myself as I was-a black silhouette in the room, a woman whose darkness had completely leaked… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face. — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
Part-black generally means all-black in Americans' minds. Just as part-Asian or part-Hispanic or part-anything-else usually puts individuals in those minority-groups' camps. — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. A pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention. — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
If you're black, if you're gay, if you're Latin - we're all the same. We're all the same, and we all want… — Kate del Castillo Copy Share Image
People always ask me: 'Do you have black in you? Do you have Spanish in you?' — Rita Ora Copy Share Image
If the black vote does not come out in big numbers in the age of Ferguson and voter ID, it will empower… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
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