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There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal.
Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.
To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.
Did you know that the black suited organization that attacked the Koresh cult was a United Nations task force?
I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I'll black out the windows or something.
In hindsight, I feel like I made the right decision to choose production that would get played on black radio.
Elvis' disappearing body is like a flashing event horizon at the edge of the black hole that is America today.
I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
I am for feminism. I stand up for women standing up for themselves in the same way I stand up for being black.
What if Eminem was black? would he have sold five mil. Or would he be 1 out of 5 million rappers with no deal?
If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.
Keep on complaining about slavery and that was over 40 to 50 years ago. You know, black folks need to move on.
I was raised a black child in the South, where you're indoctrinated into a religion that an oppressor gave you.
Our families have fallen to pieces. 75 percent of all black children are born out of wedlock, without a father.
Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.
Many black men leave because they are financially responsible - not because they are emotionally irresponsible.
I was the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana in 1960.
I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery.
Black movies don't have real names, they have names like Barbershop. That's not a name, that's just a location.
These people didn't know anything about black people, so the only thing they could imagine was the worst thing.
I'm a tech geek. Whenever I read about something new, I think to myself, How can I take this and make it black?
My family is part Creole, and were Indian, and were also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.
Rep. James Clyburn, the state's only black congressman -- controls 20 percent to 25 percent of the primary vote.
to speak as black, female, and commercial lawyer has rendered me simultaneously universal, trendy, and marginal.
They say African Americans. I say black people. I've only been to Africa once. I've been in America all my life!
What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?
When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black.
I don't like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.
I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
What was your life anyway but the tiny black spot of what you've done against the infinite white of possibility?
I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.
I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
black isn't beautiful and it isn't ugly - black is! It's not kinky hair and it's not straight hair - it just is.
I like most kinds of music. So I haven't got a bag, as they say... except the big black one in the hall outside.
The Word is the Magic that Humans possess and misuse of the Word is Black Magic... Be Impeccable with Your Word.
Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief.
If you're a young black dude from the hood you want to come through the hood in a car that makes a lot of noise.
I asked her if I was black or white. She replied "You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!
For one quarter, Black Tiger lets me escape from my rotten existence for three glorious hours. Pretty good deal.
You literally cannot deny the fact that rock and roll was born because of blues, and blues is black man's music.
Puerto Ricans are many colors - we are Spanish, we're French, we're Thai, Indian, we're almost black, some of us.
Oh, Lady Maccon, I am unreservedly in love with her. That black hair, that sweet disposition, those capital hats.
Black men of our day were never told, The sky's the limit. ... We could aspire to Joe Louis but never Henry Ford.
I've had two unlucky injuries that are the equivalent of walking under 1,000 ladders and seeing 1,000 black cats.
The truth is black celebrities are not as sought after in the press as white celebrities, and that is comforting.
I believe that when it comes to major foreign policy issues, many prefer to have black people seen and not heard.