Black Quote by Frankie Laine

Listen to David Lammy, an archetypal successful black man. If you turn the screen off so that you are listening to him on radio…

— David Starkey

Before Elvis, everything was in black and white. Then came Elvis. Zoom, glorious Technicolor.

— Keith Richards

I think that [Eddie Murphy's famous "White Like Me"] is probably the first time I thought, "Oh. Being black is different. That is a…

— Neal Brennan

..When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody ... hearing him for the first time was…

— Bob Dylan

Though I'm not the first king of controversy, I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley. To do black music so selfishly, and use…

— Eminem

Elvis was the first person in music that I really identified with.

— Cher

The negro king desired to be portrayed as white. But do not laugh at the poor African; for every man is but another negro…

— Heinrich Heine

I was the first black man on television.

— Scatman Crothers

I was an original Elvis fan. He was the voice of my generation. I was listening to him on the radio when he released…

— Ronnie Milsap

The man on the radio says Elvis Presley's died. We drove to Memphis, the sky was hard and black.

— Bruce Springsteen

If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars.

— Sam Phillips

Had I been pushed like Colonel Parker pushed Elvis, had I been a white boy like Elvis, sure, it would have been different.

— Chuck Berry