It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is… — Kevin Eubanks Copy Share Image
“Black is associated with power because all vibrational energies of all colors are drawn into one place, ready to be used. Wear… — Tae Yun Kim Copy Share Image
We're at 103,000 feet. Looking out over a very beautiful, beautiful world . . . a hostile sky. As you look up… — Joseph Kittinger Copy Share Image
And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
(The mainstream media) are so vested in our first black president not being a failure that it's going to be amazing to… — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
I don't care if you're black, white, short, tall, skinny, rich or poor. If you respect me I'll respect you — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The natural response of the old-timers is to build a strong moral wall against the outside. This is where the world starts… — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
Historically, you've had really muddy, unforgiving, unintentional images of black people. — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
I think the play offers (white Americans) a different way to look at black Americans For instance, in 'Fences' they see a… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
Fox News never calls up Bobby Seale to articulate a stance in opposition to right-wing conservatives. To me, giving the New Black… — Bobby Seale Copy Share Image
Id like to wear a rainbow every day, and tell the world that everything is o.k. But Ill try to carry off… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
Specifically for black women, our images and our bodies in the media and in history have been so hypersexualized. — Tatyana Fazlalizadeh Copy Share Image
To operate with the aspiration of color-blindness in a country whose central operating mechanism for centuries has been race belies the logic… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
A lot of my books deal with very controversial issues that most people often don't want to talk about, issues that, in… — Steven Tyler Copy Share Image
Turkey is a European country, an Asian country, a Middle Eastern country, Balkan country, Caucasian country, neighbor to Africa, Black Sea country,… — Ahmet Davutoglu Copy Share Image
Black people have been qualified to be president for hundreds of years. George Washington Carver could have been president. I could go… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I couldn't wait to be, you know, a Black Panther. Of course they wouldn't let me join. — David Alan Grier Copy Share Image
People like Clyde McPhatter who came out of the black churches - like Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin - were all church… — Ahmet Ertegun 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
The fact that black young dancers consider me to be a role model is incredible. I hope that they can continue to… — Michaela DePrince Copy Share Image
It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient. — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
Some of my influences are black gospel artists so I definitely want to do a soul-gospel type thing. — Jonny Lang Copy Share Image
I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
If you look at literacy tests in the South, for example, they were absurdly difficult and didn't measure literacy. They were simply… — Marc Lamont Hill Copy Share Image
Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided . . . we have frozen our vision in figures that… — Charles Bartlett Johnson Copy Share Image
When I first came on the scene, I don't think people knew what to make of the way I dress, my aesthetic… — Lindi Ortega Copy Share Image
It's down to schools to educate children about their history, especially black history. — Ashley Walters Copy Share Image
Without networks like the Black Immigration Network, organizations like Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees would not get the support and resources and… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
As a black man working in the business, it's a challenge sometimes to get some of these things and these stories told… — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, hockey was the sport that 90 per cent of black kids at school played. — Jarome Iginla Copy Share Image
I certainly believe in a type of Rooney Rule - in legislation that doesn't give black and ethnic individuals a job but,… — Chris Hughton Copy Share Image
Poor white people and poor black people just don't know how much they have in common. Rich people don't give a damn… — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
There is a simple maxim that I use to express this situation, 'when tolerance becomes a one way street, it leads to… — Allen West Copy Share Image
