I will probably have a tendency to lean toward trying to resolve the issues that negatively impact black people, but the overall… — David Banner Copy Share Image
There are more than 100 million African women who go topless at some point in the day, each and every day, to… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
The Koreans that make their money in our community: If we have a Black bank, you'll find they don't deposit anything of… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
I am a little thing, a tiny little thing on the vast prairies. I know nothing. My mouth is dirty. I cannot… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
I have a lot of respect for President Obama, and while I deeply disagree with some of his actions or lack of… — Alicia Garza Copy Share Image
Paint pictures with sound. First, find your white-the deepest, roundest sound you can play on the guitar. Then, find your black-which is… — Les Paul Copy Share Image
The summer of 1991, I took $2,000 of my savings and a desktop program, and I asked my friends to write 800… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
[My picture A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ] was a way of demonstrating that there… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
In my whole life, I've worn black tie three times. I can't tie the knot myself. Once, at the premiere of the… — Stefano Gabbana Copy Share Image
The first of all single colors is white ... We shall set down white for the representative of light, without which no… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“It starts from the premise that black connotes evil and death in all cultures and hopes to figure out if “these associations… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
An interesting example is that the worst woman in the book, who is so cruel and violent, is the sorceress in "The… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
The greatest percentage of poverty is found in female-headed households. Over 70 percent of female-headed households are poor. A large percentage of… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
It hurts to see that everything on television is based on pillaring people. Nobody's sort of given the opportunity to be nice… — Robin Leach Copy Share Image
Kids raised on a culture of ‘We’re not going to keep score in the game because we don’t want anybody to lose.’… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
When you're a black man in a hoodie, all of a sudden you're a criminal. That's something we shouldn't have to deal… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
Black pride. Gay pride. White, Anglo-Saxon Protestant pride. All of these things, you know, they're polarized, aren't they? The red and blue… — Robert Towne Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house? The shades of the prison-house closed round about… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
You have to separate artistic ability from ethnic origin. Not only am I not black, I am also not a woman, therefore… — Gavin Hood Copy Share Image
In Sacramento, my brown was not halfway between black and white. On the leafy streets, on the east side of town, where… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
It was really different this time, because we did everything in the studio and thought out the writing and song structures. Before… — Mitch Lucker Copy Share Image
Being someone that grew up in a biracial household I never really felt accepted by black people when I was a little… — Vic Mensa Copy Share Image
Everyone knows I'm black. I am who I am. This is the person that Lester Sr. and June Holt raised, and I… — Lester Holt Copy Share Image
“All things that we ordained festival, Turn from their office to black funeral; Our instruments to melancholy bells, Our wedding cheer to… — William Shakespeare 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
I think that the agriculture system in general is rooted in racism - consider that historically black labor on plantations was the… — Bryant Terry Copy Share Image
Well, of course, all of the statistics say there are fewer eligible black men in my circle. But I've never thought of… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
From racial profiling and being pulled over just for 'driving while black' to this new phenomenon of killing unarmed people out of… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
Black English is simpler than standard English in some ways; for example, it often gets by with just 'be' and drops 'am,'… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
Somebody once said to me after I'd done "Deep Impact," "What is it like to play a Black president," and I said,… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
I didn't have many friends. I was very shy ... And, then, even worse, when I was 14 I became Gothic. I… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
Rays were blazing through the atmosphere of the earth, the horizon became bright orange, gradually passing into all the colors of the… — Yuri Gagarin Copy Share Image
Ask any Mexican, any Puerto Rican, any black man, any poor person - ask the wretched how they fare in the halls… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
To this day, the only argument against Obama that critics can seem to come up with involves admitting he's better than them… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don't start, it's either the fuel system or the electrical system. Teach yourself about… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
To challenge norms, presuppositions, practices in communities across this country - where the unconscious valorization and celebration of whiteness and conscious resistance… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have conserved their racial purity by a lack of affinity with washing,… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image