One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
I used to believe in em (lines). I don't anymore. They in our heads. Lines between black and white ain't there neither.… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
I love the night passionately. I love it as I love my country, or my mistress, with an instinctive, deep, and unshakeable… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
Whenever I ask myself what blackness means to me, I am struck by the parallels that exist between my predicament and that… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
Your eyes have turned as black as a Crow’s,” she blurted out. He didn’t even blink over her bizarre comment. “Not this… — Julie Garwood Copy Share Image
The seals stupidly dive off rocks into swirling black water, barking mindlessly. The zookeepers feed them dead fish. A crowd gathers around… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
We need to get past the point where being black and a male means that I am likely to mug you for… — John Amaechi Copy Share Image
There's no reason why you can't say "August Wilson, playwright" even though all of my work, every single play, is about black… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
A human being having a full emotional conversation with a dog is funny, innately. It's one of those things where you get… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
I know better than most people that a criminal isn't always a thug in a black leather jacket with a big brand… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
At the risk of quoting Mephistopheles I repeat: Welcome to hell. A hell erected and maintained by human-governments, and blessed by black… — Mumia Abu-Jamal Copy Share Image
Economic justice is not just something blacks are crying out for; whites are desperate for it, too. But in the public imagination,… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
I photographed the entire thing in color because to photograph it in black and white would be to keep it as a… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
He rose and turned toward the lights of town. The tidepools bright as smelterpots among the dark rocks where the phosphorescent seacrabs… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
For black politicians, civil rights organizations and white liberals to support the racist practices of the University of Michigan amounts to no… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Everything is not black-and-white . I'm really interested in the gray area - not justifying it, not glorifying it, not condoning it,… — Isaiah Washington Copy Share Image
White folks are the luckiest people: Finally a black president and he's a behaved one. Went to the best schools, best colleges,… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
While HBCUs may only represent 3% of the nation's colleges and universities, they produce 50% of black teachers and 80% of black… — Laphonza Butler Copy Share Image
In the deepest places, where physical norms collapse under the crushing water, bodies still fall softly through the dark, days after their… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
Santa Claus was white and everything bad was black. The little ugly duckling was the black duck, and the black cat was… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
“I think of the added pressures that black men have when making love because they feel that they are expected to perform… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
The success [of the X-Men], I think, is for two reasons. The first is that, creatively, the book was close to perfect… — Mark Millar 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
I know black women in Tennessee who have worked all their lives, from the time they were twelve years old to the… — Wilma Rudolph Copy Share Image
No matter how cutting-edge Hollywood may seem, it is still delayed in how it views people: If producers do not perceive me… — Yara Shahidi Copy Share Image
The poisonous serpent of afflictions is sleeping in your mind; just as if a black viper were asleep in your room. You… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Where weary folk toil, black with smoke, And hear but whistles scream, I went, all fresh from dawn and dew To carry… — Mary Carolyn Davies Copy Share Image
Since the social victim has been oppressed by society, he comes to feel that his individual life will be improved more by… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
We live in a consumer culture, and Black Friday is like the July 4th of that culture. It might be good not… — John Seabrook Copy Share Image
I have already spoken to three US Presidents. They come and go, but politics stay the same at all times. Do you… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where… — William Blake Copy Share Image
When I wake up in the morning, the first things that I see are the clouds. They're right there. I look out… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
I stop and think what they call "punk rock" today...give me a break! Let me know when they can walk in the… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Do you remember when we stood together on Blackfriars Bridge?” he asked softly, and his eyes were like that night had been,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
What struck me most was the silence. It was a great silence, unlike any I have encountered on Earth, so vast and… — Alexey Leonov Copy Share Image
Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it.… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
You might find it difficult to see anything but your own sadness, the way smoke can cover a landscape so that all… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
The Treaty of Fort Laramie established most of what would later become South Dakota as a reservation, along with the Black Hills.… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
I’ve discovered a new affliction; it’s called Orphan Black Eyes. When people ask me what I’m working on and I tell them… — Michelle Forbes Copy Share Image