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If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower.
I know I am judged unfairly by my physical characteristics and ostracized because of that so I say, "Yes, I'm a black man."
The only thing I know about being Asian is that my hair is black and my eyelashes are straight and I have strange eyebrows.
If you're white, you're alright. If you're brown, stick around. but if you're black, oh baby. Get back, Get back, Get back.
I think Black intellectuals see too deeply. That's the problem. It's a cause of anxiety, because we see things differently.
Let it [racism] be a problem to someone else... Let it drag them down. Don't use it as an excuse for your own shortcomings.
Trump says he wants to run for president. Why not? It wouldn't be the first time he pushed a black family out of their home.
There is not a black America and a white America; a Latino America, an Asian America. There is the United States of America.
I love what the church offers to us as a culture - black people in particular. We would be nowhere without the black church.
Black people don't talk about diabetes that much. I never knew anything. I thought everyone had an uncle with a leg cut off!
Black Market, like a lot of teams, is a family for me. Just guys that I grew up with that I trust and would do anything for.
A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'
Another head - and a black alpaca jacket and a serviette this time - to tell us coffee is ready. Not before it is time, too.
When you first start to do jiu-jitsu everyone has the goal of being a black belt. You want to be great at everything you do.
Black audiences are hard. They always think they're better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.
We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
Nobody understood what it was like to be black and Jewish... being different from everyone else just made me a lot stronger.
That's the beauty of Black Eyed Peas, we don't pigeonhole ourselves into just one category. We're the chameleons of hip-hop.
I'm still trying to change the way people see black dancers that we can become delicate dancers, that we can be a ballerina.
I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey.
In black comedic culture, there's always been a thing about "Man, I ain't gotta wear a dress to be funny!" But I've done it.
There weren't many black players when I was growing up, and I remember playing and looking up to the ones that were playing.
I've pretty much learned I can let that [being black] hinder me if I want to ... or I can fight for different kinds of roles.
Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.
I'm trying to incorporate colour into my life. Until recently, everything in my closet was black, white, grey, navy or olive.
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')
Ive never drunk coffee. Im convinced it has something to do with why my skin is good. I have either mint, green or black tea.
I wore a 'Black Metal' Venom T-shirt once, in January 1993, to promote black metal, and I regret having done that ever since.
Not since the Black Panthers sailed into their Upper East Side tea party has there been so daffy an exercise in radical chic.
When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren't backed up by the authorities.
Did the poet use red to symbolize blood? Anger? Lust? Or is the wheelbarrow simply red because red sounded better than black?
What does it mean to be too black for Hollywood? It's self-explanatory. Hollywood has certain kinds of blacks that they like.
First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.
I make a composition with a white and a black, and make adjustments when the white has become a paper and the black a shadow.
Ben Carson said black people worked for less. I have breaking news: we built this joint for free. We didn't build it for less.
When you say 'Black is beautiful' you are saying, 'Man you are okay as you are, begin to look upon yourself as a human being'.
I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival.
If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist.
If you subscribe to any moral code that says you should care for humanity, obviously black people will fit into that category.
I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they represent.
Nothing is going to happen to you if you throw salt on the floor, stand under a ladder, or see eight black cats on the street.
When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
I can go all over the world with just three outfits: a blue blazer and gray flannel pants, a gray flannel suit, and black tie.
When, like an Emir of tyrannic power, Sirius appears, and on the horizon black Bids countless stars pursue their mighty track.
Bootworks' Black Box Theatre has a maximum seating capacity of two - as long as one of you is happy to sit on the other's lap.
Poetry is the plough that turns up time in such a way that the abyssal strata of time, its black earth, appear on the surface.
Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.