History is a continuum, it's not these separate moments. That's how we look at it. In the 1700s in Virginia before there… — Titus Kaphar Copy Share Image
I like Jailhouse Rock and Love Me Tender. The black-and-white films. With music, I tend more toward the '70s stuff because I… — Lisa Marie Presley Copy Share Image
In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I've been pulled over with four hoopers in the car before and we've all been taken out and searched because we were… — Bradley Beal Copy Share Image
Few people younger than me know that it was once normal to see fields white with mushrooms, or rivers black with eels… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus Christ and that the born-again are not… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I did most of my Ph.D. in Washington. They used to bring black kids through the lab for tours, and I was… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
I don't think I have written a poem when I was completely sober. But I have written a few good ones or… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Six is the hardest number for me to experience, the smallest. It's the absence of something - it's cold, dark, almost like… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people.… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Being black and speaking properly are not mutually exclusive. My father was an African, and he spoke beautifully at home. Nelson Mandela… — Franklyn Ajaye Copy Share Image
They were jet, those wings, as deep as the sky, as black as Eoduin's hair—no, blacker, for they were dull, unoiled. They… — Meredith Ann Pierce Copy Share Image
That's how I am and how I've always looked at the world. I understood what the pavilions were before I came to… — Mark Bradford Copy Share Image
Black scientists and technicians, many of them women, used cells from a black woman to help save the lives of millions of… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
We were coming out of the black community with this thing called rap music, which was basically black men yelling at the… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
What ignited the rocket that sent you up into the vast regions of comedy, and why? I would say, for me, that… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
People from major labels were afraid to go to Black Flag gigs throughout most of the band's existence. They treated our gigs… — Greg Ginn Copy Share Image
I always say that my artist statement is to not be afraid to talk about the messiness - the unpleasant feelings and… — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
Look at the piano. You'll notice that there are white notes and black notes. Figure out the difference between them and you'll… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
Our leaders were assassinated, one of the things I was reading today was - 28 Panthers were killed by the police but… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
“I had seen the world as either white or black. It is only when I read the pages of her diary that… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Being glamorous is about strength and confidence. It's black and white - dramatic. You have to be strong. — Catherine Zeta-Jones Copy Share Image
A lot of people heard about gin and juice for the first time from Snoop Dogg, but it was nothing new in… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
Let's pretend for just one moment that could actually happen. You close your eyes and I'll close mine and let's dream the… — Annabel Pitcher Copy Share Image
There seems to be this sense among even well-meaning Americans that Africa is this black hole of murder and mutilation that can… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs. — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
[Her] greatest fear, which was so huge and so black that it was of phobic proportions, was that people would laugh at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding… — Larry Bird Copy Share Image
I just start with a pencil and paper. I don't want something too trendy, too fashion-forward. I don't want to make something… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the 60s. When the marriage… — Lisa Bonet Copy Share Image
Where the really sincere white people have got to do their 'proving' of themselves is not among the black victims, but out… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think the two issues, racism and chauvinism, are linked. Look at how much weaker was support for U.S. actions in Iraq… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
Heaven has its business and earth has its business: those are two separate things. Heaven, that's the angels' pasture; they are happy;… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
If you're a black man, they really call you out and have you deal with them. — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
I like playing human beings - I don't believe in good or bad. I don't believe in black and white. I believe… — Demian Bichir Copy Share Image
I just don't think there are any rules to color. You have a small space with no windows? Put lamps in there,… — David Bromstad Copy Share Image
Everybody says it: black, white; everybody calls me a legend. Italians, Jews. Everybody — Roberto Duran Copy Share Image