I definitely am drawn to strong females who are successful, smart women because I am a woman like that. I think it's… — Megalyn Echikunwoke Copy Share Image
Patience. I colored patience gray, hung over with black clouds. I colored hope yellow, just like the sun we could see for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Do you know that there are libraries in… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Blacks are supposed to rejoice whenever our way of life becomes more mainstream. We seldom do. For we see in it a… — Lena Williams Copy Share Image
Mam loves to buy presents but she hates decorations. We once had a black Christmas tree because we had a new black… — Scarlett Moffatt Copy Share Image
Mother loathed the all-black B movies Hollywood made for the "colored" audience, where the stereotypes were broader and more offensive to her,… — Gayle Pemberton Copy Share Image
I didn't like The Wiz and it wasn't because black people were doing it. I didn't like The Wiz because it was… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good or he is evil. (Melisandre… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“The Complexities Of Life Caused By Bad Government Leaderships And Parental Mistakes Can Make A Child More Matured Than Their Age. It… — Baba Tunde Ojo-Olubiyo Copy Share Image
We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the 'black people's CNN.' Well now, hip-hop is more like Fox… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
I feel like the world we live in seems to be full of an increasingly grey area, but the culture that we… — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
Adolescents tend to be passionate people, and passion is no less real because it is directed toward a hot-rod, a commercialized popular… — Edgar Friedenberg Copy Share Image
I was only sitting here in my white study with the awful black words pushing me around. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I remember plastering the kitchen with Black Power pictures of Angela Davis. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
I'm useless at staring at a piece of white paper. But if you put a piece of white paper with a black… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of what we dreamed and… — Bobby Seale Copy Share Image
I make films about black women and it doesn't mean that you can't see them as a black man, doesn't mean that… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
Colin Kaepernick is one of the leaders in the movement for black lives. His role as an athlete and activist is not… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
In some cities such as Washington, DC, that 75 percent of young black men can expect to serve time in prison. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters. I find flawed characters much more interesting… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
