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The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.
I disagree with the prevailing point of view of some black leaders that special treatment for blacks is acceptable.
Even the notion that, you know,[Bill] Clinton was the black president strikes me as the greatest irony of all times.
The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.
Persian envoy "our arrows will black out the sun..." Dienekes of the Spartans.."Good, then we'll fight in the shade.
I happen to be black and a woman and unapologetically proud to be both, but that is not the totality of my identity.
If it was so honorable and glorious to be black, why was it the yellow-skinned people among us had so much prestige?
The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.
An era similar to the one in which the black rotary phone dominated its product category may not recur anytime soon.
Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.
The epidemic is truly black-on-black crime. The greatest danger to the lives of young black men are young black men.
That's how we do it in the black community; we give back to the people who made us who we are. We never forget that.
For our senior picture, they said, 'Black or navy blazer.' And I thought, Why do I want to look like everybody else?
I really like black. I love wearing black, different aesthetics and shades. I like earth tones. Those are my go-tos.
My film is very simple: An Eastern European story full of black humor about things everyone can feel and understand.
In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.
My personal style is kind of sophisticated edgy, I guess. I wear a lot of black and it's what I feel comfortable in.
We actually know that all lives do matter. And we believe it is so much so that we had to create Black Lives Matter.
Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining.
Thank God for Jerry Springer's show. I thought only black folks were that screwed up until I watched Jerry Springer.
If the government can't get the black man justice, then it's time for the black man to get some justice for himself.
There ought to be a robust, uninhibited conversation in black America with different black ideological perspectives.
The exceptionalism of a black U.S. President is not important to me. It's what he does - and who he has at the table.
I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.
Even in the days when they did Othello, you didn't necessarily have to be black to play Othello. You wore the makeup.
No woman on this whole earth can please me and cook for me and socialise and talk to me like my American black woman.
It's hard for black women to ask for help. We think we don't need it. We're used to being in pain and living with it.
Why are you not where you belong? / A black hat on a hook says nothing. / Ashes mirror ashes / In a mirroring window.
Tutankhamun was not black, and the portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilization as black has no element of truth to it.
I've heard that Black people and Black faces don't sell magazines, but one day you're going to beg me to be on there.
I am not one to adhere to silly clothing rules. I love mixing metals, wearing a brown bag with black shoes, whatever.
I got pulled over when I was behind the wheel of a Porsche in Philly once for what we call DWB - Driving While Black.
There's no black and no white, just shades of grey...But the small betrayals lead to bigger ones, morality is eroded.
I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.
My life is a black hole of boredom and despair." "So basically you've been doing homework." "Like I said, black hole.
They say that every Jewish person is supposed to love one black person in his life. I'm glad Lorne Michaels chose me.
Most of the things that are asked of me as a representative black person, would suggest never are we equal Americans.
'Black girl magic' means, to me, just getting out there and doing it every day and not letting anything get you down.
I have a lot of looks but right now I'm really into grunge. Messy hair, black heels. I get Michelle Pfeiffer with it.
Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.
I am urging the parents of black and Latino youngsters particularly to not let their children go out wearing hoodies.
Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.
I never have a problem with being black. I have a problem with the easy association of what that means to some people.
I don't think women need another black bag. Everybody has a black bag already, so I thought this season (needs) color.
Nationwide about 1 in 7 black men are temporarily or permanently disenfranchised due to felon disenfranchisement laws.
We can't talk about the black community. It's no longer a homogeneous community; it was never a homogeneous community.
I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in Black women's lives.
Everybody is different. I can think of three black men I've dated and they couldn't be more different from each other.
... black women have always found that in the social order of things we're the least likely to be believed--by anyone.
England is so black and white, so plain, like a burger with nothing on it. No salad, nothing. That's why it's so real.