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Being the person I am, you know, the size I am, being a woman, being a black woman, there's not a lot of roles for us.
To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.
Black Power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.
We're ready for a real black President - someone like Jay-Z. Obama's fine, just not all black. He's our gateway Negro.
The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.
Seeing a black transgender woman embracing and loving everything about herself might be inspiring to some other folks.
I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.
One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it-- it was the black kitten's fault entirely.
Lonely dissent doesn't feel like going to school dressed in black. It feels like going to school wearing a clown suit.
If Black Stache laughed, you laughed. If he snarled, you snarled. If he breathed in your direction, you ran for cover.
I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.
President [Barack] Obama has been an unbelievable divider of this country, whether it's rich and poor; white and black.
I never felt that I was supposed to be white. Or black, either. My parents just wanted to let me be who I needed to be.
I like The Beatles and I like The Kinks and I like The Rolling Stones and I like Led Zeppelin and I like Black Sabbath.
I was always the black sheep of the family and always told that I was dumb, and I had a low IQ and did badly in school.
There's so much about the strong black woman stereotype that makes us forget that we do need and deserve help and care.
As anger is a passing storm, so it comes not gradually and with signs, but like a sudden sweep of wind or black squall.
There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors.
It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.
It's not Lyndon Johnson who makes the black freedom movement; it's the black freedom movement who makes Lyndon Johnson.
Nobody black or white who really believes in democracy can stand aside now; everybody's got to stand up and be counted.
Once a blooming red rose, full of streaming life in its veins. Now a wilting black petal rupturing with death and pain.
Obama was the best thing for black nerds everywhere. Finally we had a role model. Before Obama, we basically had Urkel.
When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do.
The only thing I change mainly is my sneakers. I love sneakers. But everything's sort of black or jeans. Jeans, always.
For a rub with sweet tang: mix just a little bit of light brown sugar to garlic pepper, black pepper, and onion powder.
There was one awkward moment where a black man stood-up to ask a question and out of habit, Bush said 'Clemency denied.'
Right now I'd like all my troubles to stand in front of me in a straight line, and one by one I'd give each a black eye.
Black has always been a staple for me, but that's not really a good favorite color. I've been really into browns lately.
I think now I get to create and inspire more young black girls to continue doing what they love and reach for the stars.
I was neither black enough for the black kids or Dominican enough for the Dominican kids. I didn't have a safe category.
I'm a black American, and I'm proud to represent who and where I'm from - unapologetically. There's no shame in my game.
There were no black images of dignity, no images of beautiful black people. There was this big hole. I tried to fill it.
The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!
I see music in colours. I love music that's black, pink, purple or red - but I hate music that's green, yellow or brown.
Black lives matter. White lives matter. Asian lives matter. Hispanic lives matter. That's anti-American and it's racist.
There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'.
Indians are the second largest population in the world, but we're invisible on TV - everything is either black or white.
The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people.
I have no interest in romanticizing poor black people, having been one of them myself in our beloved hometown of Detroit.
When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?
We want to see a world where black lives matter in order for us to get to a world where all of our humanity is respected.
Black women are supposed to be 'strong,' but the burden of carrying our race and carrying our families adds the pressure.
The Black woman is the most unprotected, unloved woman on earth...she is the only flower on earth...that grows unwatered.
All was black, gloomy and awful. There was no light at the end of the tunnel - or if there was, it was an oncoming train.
The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.
Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom.
If you're a Black artist, you could paint a wall of smiley faces, and someone will still ask you, 'Why are you so angry?'
My favorite sound is definitely mules. If it was an instrument, it's really pingthe touch of the black keys of the piano.