There was always music in our home. My mom and my dad loved music. I remember when we were kids we would… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
The thread has snapped. No sound even to mark the breaking let alone the fall. That long anticipated disintegration, when the darkest… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
Nobody black had learned anything from the 'Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the 'I Have a Dream' speech. That was… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
You don't have to paint your walls lime green just to try to have your home feel decorated. If you're a classic… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
The sad reality of it is, as black artists in the industry, we still have to work 10 times harder to get… — Ashton Sanders Copy Share Image
I feel truly blessed to be one of the many black women who are leading ladies on television. — Naturi Naughton Copy Share Image
I'm not asking for there to be all black writer's rooms or all Asian writer's rooms, or all white - I want… — Lena Waithe Copy Share Image
Poitier opened the doors to so many artists, not just black artists. There is a line that goes from black to Latin… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
I love good old-fashioned black or white Converse. I have a few pairs. And they are all really dirty. I can't have… — Ashley Benson Copy Share Image
It was just a wonderful experience, one for the memory book for sure. The sad thing about it was that the picture… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
For me, Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' defines New York. Both New York and Manhattan Island should be in black in white! I always… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
I hold my time with the Black Crowes with the utmost respect and sincerest appreciation. It is a huge swath of my… — Rich Robinson Copy Share Image
If we could buy these properties and then invest in the Black community, with our own McDonald's, with our own Kentucky Fried… — Solomon Burke Copy Share Image
Far away if first black, But it shall be back Over field Over flower In the twilight hour. We are home in… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
I grew up in Flatbush, Queens, Laurelton. These are places where it's mostly black and there was a lot of diversity. — JPEGMAFIA Copy Share Image
To avoid the consequences of posterity the mulattos give the blacks a first class letting alone. There is a frantic stampede white-ward… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public… — Eartha Kitt Copy Share Image
If there had never been the Great Migration there would never have been jazz, there would never have been Michelle Obama. A… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
When I was in high school I made the discovery that if I was playing in a jazz club, and there were… — Paul Smoker Copy Share Image
Marlene Dietrich and Roy Rogers are the only two living humans who should be allowed to wear black leather pants. — Edith Head Copy Share Image
When Shonda Rhimes writes her autobiography, it should be called How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman. — Alessandra Stanley Copy Share Image
Last but not least, she put on a pair of black-framed reading glasses she’d found on Mr. Mercer’s bedside table. If it… — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
It's very funny, American society: White culture can do all sorts of things and get away with it, but the minute a… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
When things go wrong and will not come right, Though you do the best you can, When life looks black as the… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a tragedy; it is a clash between right and right. And, therefore it's not black and white. Sometimes,… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
South Africa, with US support, after the fall of the Portuguese empire, invaded Angola and Mozambique to establish their own puppet regime… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Black music is too big and too powerful not to have its own awards show. — Don Cornelius Copy Share Image
First woman of colour, first Black person and first Jewish woman elected to lead a major federal party - it was never… — Annamie Paul Copy Share Image
We can see that the complexity we witness inside the African-American community today has always been there. Black people were just as… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I'm to trying to say I'm something I'm not. Black people understand that. I'm just doing my raps, my way. Rap is… — Vanilla Ice Copy Share Image
Industrial design keeps the customer happy, his client in the black and the designer busy. — Raymond Loewy Copy Share Image
Gene Roberts, one of Malcolm's X chiefs of security, was an NYPD undercover cop. He later went on to bigger things by… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
People are fooled by the colour of my skin. I grew up on the north side of Fredericton in a Celtic culture… — Measha Brueggergosman Copy Share Image
This will play right into Obama's hands. He's humanitarian, compassionate. They'll use this to burnish their, shall we say, 'credibility' with the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
That's why Black Lives Matter thinks I'm so great. The fact of the matter is that everything is consciousness. This conversation is… — Bethann Hardison Copy Share Image
