Our society doesn't want to help girls like that [in Black Snake Moan]. They just want to use them.

In The Black Power Mixtape , you hear the voice of Angela Davis - not someone playing Angela Davis.

Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four.

In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus.

The black nation of Egypt is the only country that has a science named after its culture: Egyptology

Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath

The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.

Do you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts." He nodded. "But a useful one," he said.

I love “The Autobiography of Malcolm X.” That was like the only black book we read in high school...

In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.

I've always laughed at the term "female director" or even "black director." A director's a director.

Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black.

I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered.

In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee.

I know I'm black. Everyone knows I'm black. But I don't want to be defined as a black hockey player.

The Holocaust, taken by itself, is a black hole. To look at it directly is to be swallowed up by it.

No matter how much strong black coffee we drink, almost any after- dinner speech will counteract it.

I have my favourite black knife with me all the time. It's a switchblade. It relaxes me to flick it.

Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.

In many ways for black actors there's been two leading guys: It's Will Smith vs. Denzel [Washington].

I don't care if you're gay, black, Chinese, straight. That means nothing to me. It's all an illusion.

Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.

We lost the skyline We stepped right off the map Drifted into black space And let the clocks relapse.

Sexism isn't a one-size-fits-all phenomenon. It doesn't happen to black and white women the same way.

The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.

Free-diving is all about dealing with anxiety. I've blacked out a few times. I've had big black-outs.

If I entered a tropical beach, would I end up in Nazi Germany with my highly inconvenient black hair?

To begin at the beginning: It is a spring moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black.

My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.

Even if its a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.

Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.

Fashion may renew itself every six months but one thing remains the same: bouncers always wear black.

I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.

When a woman dresses up for an occasion, the man should become the black velvet pillow for the jewel.

Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.

I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.

It's a lot easier being black than gay. At least if you're black you don't have to tell your parents.

I have four strikes against me. I'm black, I'm short, I'm intelligent, and I have a medical condition.

If you look at the true essence of the Black Panthers, they were more of a community protection group.

Many Americans don't mourn in public anymore - we don't wear black, we don't beat our chests and wail.

It's barely OK for me to be dressed up as a black guy. But part of me kind of enjoys provoking people.

Therapists are less likely to perceive a black woman as sad; instead they see her as angry or anxious.

Democrats, too often, take blacks for granted, and Republicans, too often, simply ignore black voters.

I'm from Planet Nomi where I wear black lipstick so you can see my lips and what I am doing with them.

I hate to say it but I hate black humor. I feel like a Klan member saying it, but it's just not funny.

I love berries. Strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, black berries, anything with an 'errie' in it!

Being born gay, black, and female is not a revolutionary act. Being proud to be a gay black female is.

A Black man voting for the Republicans makes about as much sense as a chicken voting for Col. Sanders.

I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people.

The world is a shoulder of dark meat (black flesh of an old mule). And the light is on the other side.

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