For me... you know, the most I've paid for a haircut was in Australia. Usually I go to a black barber or… — Hannibal Buress Copy Share Image
I have a color-coded computer spreadsheet that divides things down to chapter fragments. Each character's point-of-view is a different color. The text… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Mr. Pickwick took a seat and the paper, but instead of reading the latter, peeped over the top of it, and took… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
My 'Bachelorette' experience was 10 times better than Rachel's because she was the first Black Bachelorette. — Tayshia Adams Copy Share Image
The lyric abstrusities of Auden ring mystically down the circular canals of my ear and it begins to look like snow. The… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The last thing I want to be is a rich black superstar. I just want to act. — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
I dressed all in black and went to see all the top photographers, like Irving Penn, and said, 'I am Veruschka who… — Veruschka von Lehndorff Copy Share Image
I came across a photograph of him not long ago... his black face, the long snout sniffing at something in the air,… — Willie Morris Copy Share Image
They say African Americans. I say black people. I've only been to Africa once. I've been in America all my life! — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
I was raised a black child in the South, where you're indoctrinated into a religion that an oppressor gave you. — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
We're raised to believe that black men have to be one specific way. — Ashton Sanders Copy Share Image
The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness. — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone is black and white and I think we change our minds and our attitudes about certain things as… — Giancarlo Esposito Copy Share Image
School is at its best when it gives students the expectation that they will not only dream big, but dream dreams that… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
My definition of good is that you understand that this is a question of power. That you be willing to give up… — Sister Souljah Copy Share Image
Only black people in the whole neighborhood, so let's break it down: Me, I'm a decent comedian, I'm a'ight. Mary J. Blige,… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
The “new black” doesn’t blame other races for our issues. The “new black” dreams and realizes that it’s not a pigmentation; it’s… — Pharrell Williams Copy Share Image
With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
I remember distinctly not seeing myself. I didn't see myself in black culture, white culture, mass culture. — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
Something that is appealing is wars are terrible and ugly and hard and each conflict is different, but of every conflict I've… — Shaul Schwarz Copy Share Image
The thing that you have to understand about those of us in the Black Muslim movement was that all of us believed… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer. — Alphonso Jackson Copy Share Image
Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Don't terrorize. Organize. Don't burn. Give kids a chance to learn . . . The real answer to race problems in this… — James Brown Copy Share Image
Strange is the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies — Robert W. Chambers Copy Share Image
The first problem for all of us, men and woman, is not to learn, but to unlearn. We are filled with the… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I used to think I was ugly. I thought I looked like a camel. A person who doesn't love themselves, they will… — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater. — Alvin Ailey Copy Share Image
Some black filmmakers will say, "I don't want to be considered a black filmmaker, I'm a filmmaker." I don't think that. I'm… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
Katz traces the courageous role of Black women in settling the West (and] deftly shows how these pioneering spirits helped stabilize early… — Herb Boyd Copy Share Image
Black has depth.. you can go into it.. And you start seeing what you're afraid of. You start seeing what you love,… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
When black men started bearing arms, these people who we think of as being pro-gun are saying, 'We ought to change this… — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
It did occur to me that certainly African-Americans are not underserved in picture books, but those books are almost all about specifically… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image