I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Frankly, I don't think you should perform in a plaza where thousands of Cubans have been subjected to the death penalty, by… — Zoe Valdes Copy Share Image
The black conservative is responsible for making people question an idea that racism must be extinct before black people can overcome. Understanding… — John H. McWhorter 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, become… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I've been fortunate not to have been pigeonholed by virtue of being mixed-race, of being English and black, and by virtue of… — Thandie Newton Copy Share Image
At night... the streets become rhythmical perspectives of glowing dotted lines, reflections hung upon them in the streets as the wistaria hangs… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
We've actually seen Black man murders [in] many a major city in the United States - New York City, St. Louis, Missouri,… — Sterling K. Brown Copy Share Image
That's such a great book [Bloods]. That's a perfect way to articulate this thing that we're talking about. Just because someone is… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Males do not represent two discrete populations; heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheep and goats, and… — Alfred Kinsey Copy Share Image
I adore my black skin and my kinky hair. The Negro hair is more educated than the white man's hair. Because with… — Carolina Maria de Jesus Copy Share Image
Some make their worlds without knowing it. Their universes are just sesame seeds and three-day weekends and dial tones and skinned knees… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
If 'The Wild One' were filmed today, Marlon Brando and the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club would all have to wear helmets. I… — Danny Lyon Copy Share Image
London is completely unpredictable when it comes to weather. You'll start a scene, and it's a beautiful morning. You get there at… — David Schwimmer Copy Share Image
Science has revealed a universe that is vast, ancient, violent, strange, and beautiful, a universe of almost infinite variety and possibility one… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The blues records of each decade explain something about the philosophical basis of our lives as black people. ... Blues is a… — Sherley Anne Williams Copy Share Image
Irving Wallace wrote a bestselling novel, The Man, in the 1960s about a black man becoming president of the United States. We… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
In places like Germany or France the idea of black-white is not so much black-white but "our people and them," and "them"… — Nell Irvin Painter Copy Share Image
The goal of Martin Luther King is to get the Negroes to forgive the people the people who have brutalized them for… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I don't think young black men, or anybody, should get a criminal record for low-level use. You know, I don't think that… — Kevin Sabet Copy Share Image
Two or three angels Came near to the earth. They saw a fat church. Little black streams of people Came and went… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
Actually we've had a black bourgeoisie or the makings of a black bourgeoisie for many more decades.In a sense the quest for… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
An enlightened society is one where all people - the rich and the poor, the literate and the illiterate, the black and… — Pandurang Shastri Athavale Copy Share Image
My most prized possession was my lanyard of Lip Smackers I tore it out of the confines of the paper package, which… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from America. My people were slaves… — Angela Bassett Copy Share Image
Although study after study shows black men are more likely to be victims of crime, rarely do they receive victim treatment. When… — Jemele Hill Copy Share Image
I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
To me the industry has always said that the lovers and haters and principal characters will always be white in Hollywood, and… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
Motion pictures are just beginning to live up to their true potential of being immersive experience - going from beyond black and… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
I can't tell you, I couldn't put a number on it, but it's big, the number of white voters in America that… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Whenever Black succeeds in assuming the initiative in maintaining it to a successful conclusion, the sporting spirit of the chess lover feels… — Savielly Tartakower Copy Share Image
If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all… — Natasha Lyonne Copy Share Image
Nothing is black or white, nothing's 'us or them.' But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. There's incredible acts… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
President [Barack] Obama's choice of Rahm Emmanuel as his Chief of Staff was questionable, and perhaps coverups around the police violence against… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
Garrel has succeeded in filming something we have never seen before: the faces of actors in silent films during those moments when… — Serge Daney Copy Share Image
Barack Obama didn't say "I only want to be the President of Black people," he said "I want to be the President… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
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