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The black man should seek to be, and he should be encouraged to be, the best possible black man and not the best possible imitation of a white man.
All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him have a chance to rise by his own efforts.
…a cheerful black shadow reared up behind him as he spoke, thundering a happy challenge to my Dark Passenger, which slid forward and bellowed back.
My film (Black Venus) had been very emotionally draining and difficult because I had identified so much with the lead character, Saartjie Baartman.
Is America ready for a black president? Well, I say we just had a retarded one. When did being black become a bigger deterrent than being retarded?
When I try to describe myself to God I say, 'Lord, remember me? Black? Female? Six-foot tall? The writer?' And I almost always get God's attention.
It's no surprise I am addicted to all the Republican presidential candidates. They are like crack -- in that they will devastate black communities.
The stars of death stood over us. And Russia, guiltless, beloved, writhed under the crunch of bloodstained boots, under the wheels of Black Marias.
I was a lost child. I wasn't accepted in the black community because I was Korean, and I wasn't accepted in the Korean community because I was black
A lot of the things you see in science fiction revolve around black holes because black holes are strong enough to rip the fabric of space and time.
Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.
Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.
Black folk, a lot of us lived as victims in a certain part of our history. And we had to really erase that tape. We're not victims. We are citizens.
Racism has its boot squarely wedged on the neck of black communities, and we don't want to be told that hard work and responsibility are the answer.
I'm a powerful being... a wizard," Corny said. "So don't try anything." "Yes," said the little faery, blinking black eyes rapidly. "No. Try nothing.
There's a lot of difference between being well known and being notorious and the black paintings didn't make me well known - they made me notorious.
When we work all over the planet, it's mostly poor and black and brown and young people, because that's mostly what the world [environmentalism] is.
White-on-white crime is a devastation in America like so-called black-on-black crime. It's not black or white-on-white crime. It's proximity murder.
My black friends never asked me how much money I made, or what school my children went to, or anything like that. They just said, "Come as you are."
There was a great deal of inbreeding between the Indians and the slaves. Genetically speaking, black people are some part black, some part European.
I just have more Yves Saint Laurent in my closet, but it is pretty much the same - I just wear black almost 365 days of the year. I am married to it.
As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's disrespect to my game.
I don't like to see facts twisted, untruths fabricated to give the [Supreme Court] nominee a black eye, even before he comes before Senate committee.
Did you see the 2000 Republican Presidential Convention? The last time the Republicans had that many Black people on a stage, they were selling them!
It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are.
In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.
If you are born black, and you don't accept your natural status as a victim, then the validity of your blackness is immediately called into question.
It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because there is nothing to defend.
[My grandfather -a miner] had black lung, and he didn't talk about it much. It's almost like a combat veteran. But he witnessed some horrific things.
People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.
Why does every black person in the movies have to play a servant? How about a black person walking up the steps of a courthouse carrying a briefcase?
I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.
Nothing is out of our realm, because it has nothing to do with color. As black people, we're not different from anyone else, other than the exterior.
Medical-genre shows have been around forever, they will be around forever, and I think this [Code Black] is a great iteration of the next generation.
The term "black metal" has become a lot looser, or can include a larger range of sounds and extra-musical aesthetics, not just Satan and power chords.
If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and the Rolling Stones because they're always on the radio.
There was a young lady named Mae Who smoked without stopping all day; As pack followed pack, Her lungs first turned black, And eventually rotted away.
Many people take exception to me and say that I'm doing black magic and things they can't do at church. But I'm doing magic that started their church.
First black president ever, and to be living while it happened - that's a good part of history. That's probably the biggest person I admire right now.
During Black History Month, I'm reminded yet again of the ways that the struggle for civil rights is interwoven with the struggle for workers' rights.
Muhammad Ali is my hero. Yes, he was the best boxer in the world, but he also put himself on the line. He talked when black Americans had to be quiet.
I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it.
Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no information can be passed back out of the hole.
We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.
Blaxploitation films were black films targeting black people. They were films made to appeal to a culture in a way that was supposed to be unfiltered.
Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.
Every person that steps up and commits to social change helps solidify the black movement cause. It is not easy for those who fill in the leader role.
There's something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black women. It's a reflection as opposed to an interpretation.
these hips have never been enslaved, they go where they want to go they do what they want to do. these hips are mighty hips. these hips are magic hips
Growing up, I played hockey because I loved playing it. I didn't view myself in minor hockey as a Black hockey player, but I was also aware that I was.