Wasn't Winston Churchill the first black president of America? There's a statue of him near me... that's black... — Danielle O'Hara Copy Share Image
I would say things like 'I am the greatest! I'm pretty! If you talk jive, you'll drop in five! I float like… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Holly winked. 'Do I look like a fly boy to you, Fowl?' Artemis had to admit that she didn't. Captain Short was… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
In the presence of real tragedy you feel neither pain nor joy nor hatred, only a sense of enormous space and time… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
Obama a ‘light-skinned’ African-American ‘with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one. — Harry Reid Copy Share Image
It's incredibly important for the world to see a gay black character that's comfortable with themselves on screen. — Ncuti Gatwa Copy Share Image
There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Every Iranian artist dreams of the black market. We don't care about making money. — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
The only black battalion on Iwo Jima was a small munitions supply unit that came to the beach. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
One day I realized I was living in a country where I was afraid to be black. It was only a country… — Josephine Baker Copy Share Image
Because anybody can find their fan base through the Internet, it opens opportunities up for talented people along with people like Rebecca… — Alan Palomo Copy Share Image
Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
L shot Maki a disappointed look. But soon he forgot everything when Misa Amane appeared onstage. Enraptured he began to cheer with… — Tsugumi Ohba Copy Share Image
Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians… — Audre Lorde 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
Everything's not black and white. We choose to make bad decisions or not. I wanted to explore that and shine a light… — Will Arnett Copy Share Image
When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
And I was the only black kid in my school for almost all of my childhood, until I was a teenager. So… — Aisha Tyler Copy Share Image
All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy. — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
Your life has to consist of more than 'Black people should unite.' You hope they do, but not twenty-four hours a day. — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
Once a blooming red rose, full of streaming life in its veins. Now a wilting black petal rupturing with death and pain. — Jessica Sorensen Copy Share Image
I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
