I was sometimes jeered by black soldiers who wanted me to sing something besides country music.

If they had not murdered Malcolm X, there probably never would have been a Black Panther Party.

Black culture is very difficult to explain to people who don't have any direct contact with it.

I think the central theme about black society is that it has got elements of a defeated society

I did not believe what I was told about being poor and black and female in Mississippi in 1954.

I am Black because I come from the earth's inside now take my word for jewel in the open light.

I was not allowed to be an individual. I was black and I was a woman - and I was a black woman.

Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.

They don't let many black people in the governor's mansion in Alabama, unless they're cleaning.

It was a land of shadows and ice. Of gray. And grayer. And black. -The Unseelie prison of Aedan

Black musicians were either trying to be American or trying to play down their Caribbean roots.

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.

My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London.

Make sure the clothes you buy on Black Friday take into account how fat you got on Thanksgiving.

I don't know exactly what a black Chinese restaurant would be, but I would sure love to see one.

Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.

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

We are all somewhere or the other a little grey, not black and white. We have our imperfections.

It's odd to see a black person painting his nails in Miami, especially in the hip-hop community.

I don't believe there's two sides to every story. It's black and white. There's right and wrong.

Listen, we've got one little ol' black president, and white folks are upset, but they've had 43.

Black men, you were once great; you shall be great again. Lose not courage or faith, go forward.

I don't find anything black and white; I find grey in every person, and that is what excites me.

I want to be able to tell black people something they don't know, something about our own lives.

Young black men in America have an identity ascribed to them that is a direct legacy of slavery.

Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.

A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.

War's not black and white; it's gray. If you don't fight in the gray area, you're going to lose.

I could depend a lot on my shaking, though I never shimmied vulgarly and only to express myself.

Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior?

I'm the king of the 20th century. I'm the boogeyman, the villian, the black sheep of the family.

I just felt as though I would never be happy again, and as if I had fallen into a big black hole.

One of the scariest moments was being on Tyler Perry's first movie, 'Diary of a Mad Black Woman.'

For black women our sense of ourselves is not always consistent with the way other people see us.

The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.

I'm working on a second cookbook and am working on my love story, 'Black Heels to Tractor Wheels.

Because there were all kinds of hell - some were black and dirty, and some were silvery and high.

I am not trying to influence anyone into black magic. That is the very last thing I'd want to do.

The nomination of John McCain is another milestone. So whether black, women, or bald, yes we can.

You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.

Kim Coates is my best friend. I met Coatsy in 2001 in Morocco while working on 'Black Hawk Down.'

Evidence tells that black and Latina woman are more accepting of curves, and that's a good thing.

No flip flops for black dudes. I don’t care where you at. Wear some hot ass Jordans on the beach.

I don't use the term "black" very often. I use the term African-American more than I use "black".

With a black president, I can relax... I can dance in public... I can buy a whole watermelon now.

I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.

I am not an American; I am one of twenty-two million black people who are victims of Americanism.

We only said goodbye with words I died a hundred time, you go back to her and I go back to black.

In the music industry it's just you're either Black or white, and this is the box you get put in.

If you are still alive when you read this, close your eyes. I am under their lids, growing black.

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