My ancestors fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War; I was raised in Natchez, Miss.; I performed in the Confederate Pageant… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
Black folks are judged by quantity, not quality. It's a decimal point or figure. How different is that from slavery? There's no… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
I think as a black woman, we have a lot of colorism going on around us, and we have a lot of… — Zozibini Tunzi Copy Share Image
If travel has momentum and wants to stay in motion, as I mentioned earlier, then adventure has the gravitational pull of a… — Josh Gates Copy Share Image
Malcolm X is a person who has inspired - he has been the muse of several generations of black cultural workers, artists,… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame,… — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder if I got lulled into not wanting things because I grew up black in this country. — Kevin Eubanks Copy Share Image
This is a tradition of resistance to the term that's as old as the term itself, especially because that term has been… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
Animals like crows, owls or black cats are not ominous at all; it is the men's superstitious mind which is the inauspicious… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
For those of us in the financial world, Black Friday has a strong negative connotation, referring to a stock market catastrophe. — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
Getting involved with 'Black 47' was like getting involved with 'Dunkirk' for me. I learned a lot. But 'Black 47' was my… — Barry Keoghan Copy Share Image
If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I want to deal with somebody who comes from another country to the United States and has a family that comes. I… — Harvey Weinstein Copy Share Image
Black men struggle with masculinity so much. The idea that we must always be strong really presses us all down - it… — Donald Glover Copy Share Image
Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the… — J. D. Hayworth Copy Share Image
What I like about Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium is that it's an understated scent that's somehow familiar. — Edie Campbell Copy Share Image
But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind? — Merle Shain 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
When I try to describe myself to God I say, 'Lord, remember me? Black? Female? Six-foot tall? The writer?' And I almost… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The clothes chosen for me as a child had a strong element of the Pre-Raphaelite, muted greens and ivories, dusty rose, what… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Last year, when 'Black Swan,' 'True Grit' and 'King's Speech' all grossed over $100 million, it gave studios and independent financiers the… — Harvey Weinstein Copy Share Image
“Not every woman is obsessed with shoes. But every woman is more obsessed with shoes than her husband is (although that's not… — Peter Scott Copy Share Image
Across the San Joaquin Valley, across California, across the entire Southwest of the United States, wherever there are Mexican people, wherever there… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
What's that supposed to be anyway?" said Fred squinting at Dobby's painting. "Looks like a Gibbon with two black eyes!" "It's Harry,"… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just like those other black holes from outer space, Hollywood is postmodern to this extent: it has no center, only a spreading… — Arthur Kroker Copy Share Image
