There was a great deal of inbreeding between the Indians and the slaves. Genetically speaking, black people are some part black, some… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
Black Tragedy lets slip her grim disguise and shows you laughing lips and roguish eyes; but when, unmasked, gay Comedy appears, how… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
Carl Furillo was pure ballplayer. In his prime he stood six feet tall and weighed 190 pounds and there was a fluidity… — Roger Kahn Copy Share Image
I set out to do a horror film with 'Dog Soldiers,' and what I came out with at the end of the… — Neil Marshall Copy Share Image
A small speckled visitor Wearing a crimson cape Brighter than a cherry Smaller than a grape A polka-dotted someone Walking on my… — Joan Walsh Anglund Copy Share Image
The wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man (or any person)… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Traveling in the segregated South for black people was humiliating. The very fact that there were separate facilities was to say to… — Diane Nash Copy Share Image
Many houses were still full of light when, at the close of March 22, the people of the Círculo returned to their… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
It's too easy to say that orange is happy and black is sad. To me, black is perfect. You can fill it… — Ann Demeulemeester Copy Share Image
I love black leggings with cowboy (I mean cowgirl!) boots, and other-slightly less trendy-things like my boys' Wrangler jeans and my husband's… — Ree Drummond Copy Share Image
I played on an all-black high school team and we didn't want people saying that we were clowns. — Oscar Robertson Copy Share Image
Do you realize that if you fall into a black hole, you will see the entire future of the Universe unfold in… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, Trump has showed hateful inclinations toward many, many groups. Many groups. The most obvious: undocumented immigrants and Muslims. His comments that… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
The painting was framed in a misty view of sky, sea, and valley. Newt's painting was small, black, and warty. It consisted… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Even though I couldn't speak English, there were many times that my black-American parents could read my mind and I could read… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
I think that in his 39 short years of life, Malcolm X came to symbolize Black urban America, its culture, its politics,… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
We're not the Faster-than-the-Speed-of-Light Generation anymore. We're not even the Next-New-Thing Generation. We're the Soon-to-Be-Obsolete Kids, and we've crowded in here to… — Tim Tharp Copy Share Image
We encourage women to become mentors within their communities in order to teach young girls how to thrive in this society. It's… — Tasha Smith Copy Share Image
When people talked about O.J. Simpson being race-neutral, that was a race card. It just meant we don't think of him as… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
“One day you’re going to get arrested, and when you do, don’t call me. I’ll tell the police to lock you up… — Trevor Noah, Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood Copy Share Image
..what came before has dissolved from me, lost like milk teeth. But I think, rather, that it has always been as it… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Robert was the true steel. Stannis is pure iron, black and hard and strong, yes, but brittle, the way iron gets. He'll… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you're black in Hollywood, you know, your first role is going to be on a crime drama. That's - everybody knows… — Terry Crews Copy Share Image
The floor of ice cream parlor bothered me. It was black-and-white checkboard tile, bigger than supermarket checkboard. If I looked only at… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
I didn't like what was on TV in terms of sitcomsit had nothing to do with the color of themI just didn't… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
The sky was horribly dark , but one could distinctly see tattered clouds , and between them fathomless black patches. Suddenly I… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Although almost every theoretical physicist agrees with my prediction that a black hole should glow like a hot body, it would be… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
There's a thriving field of self-published stuff in, particularly, black fiction. I don't know that other groups of people of color have… — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow.… — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
...the evil system of colonialism and imperialism arose and throve with the enslavement of Negroes and the trade in Negroes, and it… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Seventy percent of the fish we eat is black market, fished in violation of international laws. Our ignorance makes us unwilling partners… — Loretta Napoleoni Copy Share Image
I feel there has to be a concerted effort that we encourage, in whichever way, more black and minority ethnic coaches to… — Chris Hughton Copy Share Image
Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black And the dark street winds and bends. Past the pits where the… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
People are getting tired of the same material; they want to see black girls as leads in movies. And I happen to… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
