My dad [Johnny Cash] went to the [Richard] Nixon White House and refused to sing "Welfare Cadillac" (instead performing the anti-war songs… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
When I was 10 or 11, my grandmother had a scarf. It was black, but a long one. I used to wrap… — Hassan Nasrallah 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
Black artists attacking other Black artists doesn't move anything forward, necessarily. — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
The reason I joined the struggle against Apartheid was because you had this system of oppression, which affected everybody who was black.… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
The black church often has reinforced certain self images that are damaging to black peoples' beauty, black peoples' confidence. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
If integration will get [black man] that [respect as the human being], all right. If segregation will get him that, all right.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
In the days of segregation, when blacks were limited to certain neighborhoods, you could look around the black community and identify who… — Roger Wilkins Copy Share Image
I'm always willing to work that little bit harder to achieve what I need to achieve because I feel like it's a… — Noel Clarke Copy Share Image
Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs. — Georg Trakl Copy Share Image
The Koreans that make their money in our community: If we have a Black bank, you'll find they don't deposit anything of… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
The black hole in democracy is integrity. The great unspoken is integrity. When integrity is not first and foremost, it's quite palpable… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Death is the black backing on the mirror that allows us to see anything at all. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Between the black of yesterday and the white of tomorrow is the great gray of today. — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
I've opposed black regimes and white regimes, leftist regimes and rightist regimes. I'm close to Aristide because I have respect for him,… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
How did the party that elected the first black U.S. senator, the party that elected the first 20 African-American congressmen, how did… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
After all those years of doing remote detonations, where we just push a button and something explodes, to actually see a nice… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
It would seem that some black people want to say that when you, as a black, become successful, you cease to be… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
I work in colour sometimes, but I guess the images I most connect to, historically speaking, are in black and white. I… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
I worked in corrections because they had told me I wasn't going to make it in the music business. You know, when… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
Bobby Darin was one of the first to take black musicians on the road with his band, and there were places that… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
In the first two years of my career, there were a lot of restraints on what I could do. I couldn't wear… — Rihanna Copy Share Image
“I cannot believe the path to victory lies in staining our souls so black we become indistinguishable from those we fight.” — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
Most rappers are black men. If you're a black man, you owe something to the community that you came from. If you're… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye. — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
'The Black Prism' is a story of emperors and prisoners and magic set in a Mediterranean, 1600-esque world. It's a fantasy story;… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
From the time I entered cabinet, the emphasis was on reforms, but reforms which did not abolish separate development, but reforms which… — Frederik Willem de Klerk Copy Share Image
Famously in 1936, Oswald Mosley led a march of his British black shirts through a mostly Jewish neighborhood, in the east end… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
If it's wrong for 13-year-old inner-city girls to have babies without the benefit of marriage, it's wrong for rich celebrities, and we… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
the redness had seeped from the day and night was arranging herself around us. Cooling things down, staining and dyeing the evening… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I am an archetype. There's the fat, sassy, black friend, you know? That's an archetype that exists, but that's not truly me. — Nicole Byer Copy Share Image
There is a list of things I'm not allowed to discuss at the dinner table! I am extraordinarily passionate about the Black… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The definition of gumbo is almost as slippery as that of Creole. Just as gumbo can contain pretty much any kind of… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
When I was born in 1959, the hospital in which I arrived had separate floors for black babies and white babies, and… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
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