I used to come out here every Fourth of July as a child to picnic and to swim on the island, to… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I learned a lot. I really did. Millennium is a state of mind. I always thought of Frank Black as the greatest… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
The Bureau of Justice reports that one in three black male babies born this century will go to jail or prison -… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
This is what it means to be a woman in this world. Every step is a bargain with pain. Make your black… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Whether you have a Ph.D., or no D, we're in this bag together. And whether you're from Morehouse or Nohouse, we're still… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
We human beings have not secured happiness; on the contrary, science gives us catastrophes. We are like travelers losing their way in… — Liang Qichao Copy Share Image
Casting is really a black art. It's a huge part of directing and it's the most invisible. It's one that people don't… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
I think that the best day will be when we no longer talk about being gay or straight - it's not a… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
If you read the memoirs of slave-owning families, you'd be hard pressed to find evidence of black people in the lives of… — Edward Ball Copy Share Image
The American sense of the importance, the fundamental importance of the black-white dichotomy, comes out of societies founded in the era of… — Nell Irvin Painter Copy Share Image
I think about a storm rolling in with black clouds and I visualize the lightning and try to draw energy from that,… — Carlos Condit Copy Share Image
Only about seventy years ago was chemistry, like a grain of seed from a ripe fruit, separated from the other physical sciences.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am thinking of one woman and the rest is blotto. I say I am thinking of her, but the truth is… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Obviously the more transparency we have as auditors, the more we can get, but the main goal is to understand important characteristics… — Cathy O'Neil Copy Share Image
The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I want - no, I need - to see images of black girls and femmes twerking, slaying and primping, just as much… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
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When Ben Carson said that he would remove all federal funding for universities that had 'extreme political bias.' Who would decide what… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
As I detail in my new book: 'Hard Measures, How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives,' there are many myths… — Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr Copy Share Image
Today masses of black women in the U.S. refuse to acknowledge that they have much to gain by feminist struggle. They fear… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
There's probably more of a struggle to get material and narratives published that really speak to black culture. And that has a… — Jerry Pinkney Copy Share Image
No segment of the population has lost more by the agendas of the liberal constituencies of the Democratic Party than the black… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Science is nothing more than a method of inquiry. The method says an assertion is valid - and will be universally accepted… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
I'm jamming 'Black Sabbath Vol. 4' all the time. Zappa's 'Cruising With Ruben & The Jets.' A lot of Gong lately. Some… — Ty Segall Copy Share Image
People approach people of color with preconceived ideas. I don't think this is just restricted to white people, but I think that… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
Black children need to see their lives reflected in the books they read. If they don't, they won't feel welcome in the… — Valerie Wilson Wesley Copy Share Image
It is unacceptable that the way we have treated people who have become addicted in the past is by throwing them in… — Perri Peltz Copy Share Image
The ability to make fire at will. It allowed us light to see in the darkness, warmth against the cold, a tool… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
War is a curtain of dense black fabric across all the hopes and kindliness of mankind. Yet always it has let through… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I am a black male who grew up in the inner city of Atlanta and no one ever followed me in a… — Allen West Copy Share Image
If you're gay and you can't hold hands, or you're black and you can't catch a taxi, or you're a woman and… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Pounce had it easier than any of us. No one noticed a black cat in the street. He stopped here and there… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
It's easy to whip up resentment against anything that smacks with authority. Nobody ever organizes over pan handlers. So even if a… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
Doesn't anyone wonder why the NAACP does not have events celebrating the first black woman secretary of state?.. Why does an organization… — Star Parker Copy Share Image
Be good children, and we shall all meet in Heaven. I want to meet you all, white and black, in Heaven. Our… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Four things have almost invariably followed the imposition of controls to keep prices below the level they would reach under supply and… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I really feel all my adult life has been spent in that little black box. If a wonderful part on TV came… — Bea Arthur Copy Share Image
[M]en, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to… — Moderata Fonte Copy Share Image
The short-range involves the long-range. Immediate steps have to be taken to reeducate our people into the, a more real view of… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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