Black Quote by Claudia Rankine

In my writing, I'm often describing a universal situation. A situation in which human beings often choose to violate each other. Sometimes I happen…

— Jamaica Kincaid

Oftentimes what happens actually is people say to me, 'I didn't know if it was you or not, and then I heard you laugh,…

— Seth Rogen

I can remember, when I was in college, irritating deeply somebody I was going out with, because he would ask me what I was…

— Joan Didion

Sometimes, if you ask people to "go downstairs and get me this or that," they'll say, "It's rainin" or "It might rain," or "There's…

— Miles Davis

When people say, 'this always happens to me...' they should stop and think, 'what have I done to others?'

— Triquetra Dawn

“I pointed to a Black man standing nearby and said, "If I had said something up there on that stage today that was crazy,…

— W. Kamau Bell

Say, I was on The Craig Kilbourne Show and the next day I flew to Minneapolis. I was at the airport and a guy…

— Mitch Hedberg

That moment when you walk past a cop, even if you haven't done anything, and you're all.. "DON'T DO ANYTHING STUPID & BE COOL."

— Anonymous

One time a cop pulled me over for running a stop sign. He said, "Didn't you see the stop sign?" I said, "Yeah, but…

— Steven Wright

“Even innocent criminal suspects, when they are a little bit nervous, can say things that they did not mean to say—as we have seen—or…

— James Duane

“They always think things could be much worse and surprisingly they found comfort in that. When I fell from the motorcycle, they said “At…

— Lunga Noélia Izata

“Wow…At least I can rest assured that you definitely can’t read my mind,” I remarked. “Clearly you know nothing about me…because the surest way…

— M.A. George