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Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences.
...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears.
Its really easy to get colors right. Its really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but its also an illusion.
But, I understand that Black Comb and Whistler are supposed to be great for snowboarding. So I am looking forward to going there someday soon.
It's great to be black in Hollywood. When a black actor does something, it seems new and different just by virtue of the fact that he's black.
I hadn't intended to end up there. I meant to be a serious actor with a beard who wore a lot of black and wanted to share his misery with you.
The wiping out of millions of homes took away Black and Brown wealth. It drove poverty, it drove unemployment, it drove people to food stamps.
We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.
To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.
Black women have to know the historical and everyday struggles of black men, and our men have to know the struggles of black women in America.
Reconstruction is the great black hole that remains to be filled. Even experts on the Civil War don't really understand its full significance.
You see, in recent history, the Democrat party has created the illusion that their agenda and their policies are what's best for black people.
I always loved to paint. As a kid, I liked to dip my paintbrush in black ink. They gave colors to me to use, but I didn't like them very much.
That's why Black Lives Matter thinks I'm so great. The fact of the matter is that everything is consciousness. This conversation is important.
Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
Jews, black people - any people who are hated or who have suffered, either as individuals or as a people - use humour. It is a survival skill.
Painting is marvelous; it makes you happier and more patient. Afterwards you do not have black fingers as with writing, but blue and red ones.
It was any outcast's nightmare. If I looked carefully, I suspected I might find it beneath the black paint of the small acrylic by the window.
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
Tonight the sky was utterly black. Perhaps there was no moon tonight—a lunar eclipse, a new moon. A new moon. I shivered, though I wasn't cold.
Black has depth.. you can go into it.. And you start seeing what you're afraid of. You start seeing what you love, and it becomes like a dream.
There are so many ways to be and to be black at the same time, but we're finally seeing that full range expressed much more widely than before.
I take it seriously that it's a privilege and honor to be a role model to young girls, both black and white. It's not something I take lightly.
Information anxiety is the black hole between data and knowledge, and it happens when information doesn't tell us what we want or need to know.
Blacks own so little of the music business, it's pathetic. But I see that changing soon. Black artists, black businessmen and women will unite.
I am convinced that the Black man will only reach his full potential when he learns to draw upon the strengths and insights of the Black woman.
I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody.
I love Black Sabbath. They made an amazing contribution to music today. Almost every band that made it big in the Nineties owed a debt to them.
As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work.
Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.
Some say an army of horsemen, or infantry, A fleet of ships is the fairest thing On the face of the black earth, but I say It's what one loves.
A lot of black men have problems being emotionally vulnerable because of the boundaries and parameters that have been put onto them by society.
When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.
Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better.
Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of what we dreamed and struggled and died for.
I always look on the black side of life. That way, you won't be disappointed and I'm cheerful if it doesn't work out. I'm a cheerful pessimist.
As a black actress, all I was offered in British film was the best friend role, whereas in television, I was offered a whole spectrum of parts.
Black Court vampires. I just shortened it some." Ebenezar tsked. "Blampires. That's the problem with you young people. Shortening all the words.
Black absorbs all color, accepts them, takes them into it and let them define it. Gray isn't anything but itself. It absorbs nothing but itself.
My sin is the black spot which my bad act makes, seen against the disk of the Sun of Righteousness. Hence religion and sin come and go together.
I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up.
If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o’-the-wisps of the imagination.
As far as trucks, the great thing about a Range Rover is if you're going out for a dinner, even a black tie event, you can take the Range Rover.
Play the black card expertly, and you can win awards, make millions - all the while claiming that the people who got you there somehow hate you.
The writer cannot expect to be excused from the task of reeducation and regeneration that must be done. In fact, he should march right in front.
Black magic is not a myth. It is a totally unscientific and emotional form of magic, but it does get results — of an extremely temporary nature.
Playing rock 'n' roll music, it's going to be integrated, but being black you didn't want to go into some neighborhood where you weren't wanted.
It’s just what they are — they’re jokes…most jokes are about Jewish people, rednecks, black folks…I can’t determine what offends another person.
It doesn't do any good to just be on the side of black people. The funnier comedic position is to be on the side of oppressed people in general.