A key text for me is James Baldwin's essays. And, in particular, his essay Stranger in the Village. It's a text that… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
America wasn't interested in the roots of house music because it was too black, it was too gay, it was all these… — Felix Buxton Copy Share Image
I just have to live my truth and know that it's okay to rock on my own vibration, because I'm me. I… — V. Bozeman Copy Share Image
One of the things I recognized early on, doing whatever studies of black history I have, is that even though black folks… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
All lies, white or black, disgrace a gentleman, although I grant there is a difference: to say the least of it, it… — Frederick Marryat Copy Share Image
My first kiss was fourth grade, girl named Krista West. We're walking out to the black top, and I throw my arm… — Jonathan Majors Copy Share Image
A deep, black grief gripped Robert Kennedy in the months following his brother's assassination. He lost weight, fell into melancholy silences, wore… — Thurston Clarke Copy Share Image
When I'm born I'm black, when I grow up I'm black, when I'm in the sun I'm black, when I'm sick I'm… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I've been pulled out of my nice new car and laid out in the street by the police, interrogated and then have… — Ice T Copy Share Image
Al's red eyes slid past me to Pierce. "Play?" he said, his voice dripping with interest. "Gordian Nathaniel Pierce's quirks are legendary.… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
No black man wants a blue-eyed black child, and no white man wants a kinky-haired white child. Nature didn't mean it to… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
The pilots I did test for, I was the only black actor testing against white actors for parts that were written white. — J. August Richards Copy Share Image
I was in a group called Pablo, while Will.i.am and apl.de.ap were a part of the Atban Klann. They signed to Ruthless… — Taboo Copy Share Image
As the old African adage says, 'everybody skin to me ain't kin to me'. So you can't exclusively make that the criteria… — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
The people who invented race, who grouped us together as "black," were inventing and categorizing their ability to do something vicious and… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I once made myself black out by pulling G too quickly while flying an F-18. Being unconscious in a single-seat airplane is… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
I wore the gold is symbolic of my African heritage. When my black ancestors was bought over here from Africa they were… — Mr. T Copy Share Image
What struck me most was the silence. It was a great silence, unlike any I have encountered on Earth, so vast and… — Alexey Leonov Copy Share Image
Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
White America is tortured by black America's failure to thrive, and all that guilt and anxiety has only gotten worse as a… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
I am more than a black guy. I am a person, I'm storyteller, I'm a son, I'm a friend, so I am… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
Noir is where the clarity of moral divisions break down, the black and whites turn into grays. — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
What a dull universe it would be if everything in it conformed to our expectations, if it held nothing to surprise or… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
