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As a black woman I always felt growing up I had to do above and beyond stuff to be noticed, to feel like I could hang with everybody else.
Why do you wear a mask and hood?" I think everybody will in the near future," was the man in black's reply. "They're terribly comfortable.
Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the same. Individually, we are nothing.
Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch.
The Internet is not a place. It’s a great void, a black hole, from which you can call up an incredible amount of disorganized information.
I was pretty much a minimalist. I liked a lot of black at the time, which is very different from my wardrobe now, because I live in color.
If I talk to rural people where I live - mostly Hispanic but also poor white - they're not sympathetic to the Black Lives Matter movement.
It's weird because I see black gay characters on television all the time, but do I relate to them? Not always, because they're set pieces.
If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.
Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.
The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization.
Black men struggle with masculinity so much. The idea that we must always be strong really presses us all down - it keeps us from growing.
The music I'm making is like an explosion of love. It moves away from super dark, its more romanticized and floral, but still quite black.
Both this song ['Black Skinhead'], 'I Am a God' and this song were made after Hedi Slimane didn't let me into his first Saint Laurent show.
Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first.
I have one thing in common with the emerging black nations of Africa: We both have voices, and we are discovering what we can do with them.
Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical.
There is a kind of strength that is almost frightening in Black women. It's as if a steel rod runs right through the head down to the feet.
... we ought even to hold as a fixed principle that what I see white I believe to be black, if the superior authorities define it to be so.
I did a whole concert in Atlanta with my fly open, and I had a black suit on and a white shirt. My white shirt was protruding from the fly.
When I was perceived as a black man I became a threat to public safety. When I was dressed as myself, it was my safety that was threatened.
Only one ship is seeking us, a black-Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her backA huge and birdless silence. In her wakeNo waters breed or break.
We want to make sure people know deeply about the trans community and deeply about Black Lives Matter so that people can act in solidarity.
I think I'm just someone that just tries to get by. I'm kind of - if it was during the Second World War, I'd be a black marketeer, I think.
Malcolm X is a person who has inspired - he has been the muse of several generations of black cultural workers, artists, poets, playwrights.
Saying women aren't funny is now like saying Asians can't drive or saying black people have bad credit. It's just really, like, so obsolete.
But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.
In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.
No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.
When you are losing it can seem like there is a black cloud following you around, but like they say there is a silver lining in every cloud.
I don't think that the United States are ready for a presidency as the one of Obama, at least because he would be the first black president.
There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're black.
I write the black experience in America, and contained within that experience, because it is a human experience, are all the universalities.
I never thought I was playing black music. I was just playing music, the stuff I liked. I sang blues at parties and things when I was a kid.
You don't have to be a certain thing to be cool. If you're white, you don't have to act black or whatever. Just be you and know who you are.
It's really the sense of isolation, more than anything, realizing how tiny you are down in this big vast black unknown and unexplored place.
Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness and your black presence.
The parastatals are an important driver of the process of Black Economic Empowerment and they have been doing it, and will continue to do it.
Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness, and your black presence.
Republicans think that the NAACP is the only voice in the black community. It is a voice in the black community. But it's not the only voice.
Standing there, I loved myself and I hated myself. That's what the black Mary did to me, made me feel my glory and my shame at the same time.
always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives
I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn’t have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me.
Stanley Kubrick went with his gut feeling: he directed 'Dr. Strangelove' as a black comedy. The film is routinely described as a masterpiece.
I don't see myself as a 'black actor,' I'm just Shemar Moore the actor. I'm very proud to be black, but I'm just as much black as I am white.
Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
He [Iggy] started reaching for things around the table, and his hand landed on Total. “You’re black.” “I prefer canine-American,” said Total.
We don't know: some little black boy or girl growing up in the inner city might grow up and cure cancer for all of us - if we let them do it.
I can't think of the last Asian that I ran into that talked about internment camps. But black people always want to talk to me about slavery.