As a young black boy, it made me proud to see black leaders that did something amazing and made the world change.

The subset of our population that has not benefited from the advancement of medication is black and brown people.

One dress I love - for me, it's a little edgy - it's sleeveless. It's black and it's leather. I've worn it on TV.

BLM (Black Lives Matter) is pathetic! Obama you are pathetic! Everyone should be locked behind bars like animals!

I never saw Frankenstein or King Kong or the Creature from the Black Lagoon as bad guys. They were the good guys.

Sex ages us. Priests are boyish, spinsters stay black-haired until after fifty. We others, the demon rots us out.

Specifically for black women, our images and our bodies in the media and in history have been so hypersexualized.

Obviously I'm in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians.

When Shonda Rhimes writes her autobiography, it should be called How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman.

Rafael, the Rat King, stared at the carnage with black-button eyes. "She is dead." "Ding dong, the witch is dead.

It is the mission of the printer to diffuse light and knowledge by a judicious intermingling of black with white.

People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfeld next to me.

I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.

You can't ask the women to do anymore. It's time for us as Black men to step up and be what we're supposed to be.

Barack Obama was a black man that lived on the South Side of Chicago, who had his share of troubles catching cabs.

And an inky-colored despair of rejection enveloped me like the black tortilla of depression around a pain burrito.

It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.

In Europe I couldn't be anything but a black cook working for somebody. My inspiration was to own, to be the chef.

It was a sphincter at the top of a black bowl. A fitting commentary on the FAYZ, Diana thought. A giant sphincter.

Black Consciousness therefore takes cognizance of the deliberateness of God's plan in creating Black people black.

I warn black Americans'don't get too mixed. A little is fine, but not to the point where you're out of the family.

Black, brown, white, yellow - why are we always talking about colors? I'm a girl. I believe in a global community.

As long as you like me the best. And you think I’m good-looking—sort of. I’m prepared to be annoyingly persistent.

To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.

At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.

The stars are always up in the sky...then when it is perfectly black, they feel less vulnerable and out they come.

For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.

I love Tennessee, but they don't have the pine trees and the sandy soil and the black water that I grew up around.

It's definitely an intrinsic part of my makeup that makes me want to see black when everyone else is seeing white.

When our founding fathers drafted the Constitution and Bill of Rights, black people weren't even considered human.

They said the black oil wouldn't come ashore. Well, it is ashore. It's here to stay and it's going to keep coming.

This time, we went up to Big Bear for 3-4 weeks and sequestered ourselves writing this album [ "The Black Crown"].

I didn't elect [Barack] Obama because he's a black; I voted for Obama because he was the right person at the time.

I'm the world's greatest apologist for Brian De Palma but his version of Ellroy's 'The Black Dahlia' is a disaster.

I always knew I'd be a millionaire by age thirty-two. In fact, I am going to be the richest black woman in America.

I have certainly met much more discrimination in terms of being a woman than being black, in the field of politics.

Stirless, I stand at the window, and in the black bowl of the sky glows like a golden drop of honey the mellow moon

Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word

She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn.

When the black and mortal blood of man has fallen to the ground ... who then can sing spells to call it back again?

We can never know... But maybe it's because no black actors merited being nominated.Why put people into categories?

Stop-and-frisk was ruled unconstitutional in New York, because it largely singled out black and Hispanic young men.

The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy.

Unlike Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods, Jackie Robinson never tried to convert himself into an acceptable black man.

I just feel in a lot of ways black people are so much looser and cooler. Just as a culture, it's so much more real.

My natural gravitation is toward the gray and the black and the white and the burgundy. Sort of muted, cool colors.

I wear black because I'm comfortable in it. But then in the summertime when it's hot I'm comfortable in light blue.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

Black is always elegant. It is the most complete colour in the whole world, made of all the colours in the palette.

Any woman who has a great deal to offer the world is in trouble. And if she's a black woman, seh's in deep trouble.

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