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Blacks gave me a standing ovation when they put the cap and gown on me, and that was the proudest I've ever been.
Throughout American history, whites have played a significant role in helping blacks secure freedom and equality.
I am not the Jeff Sessions my detractors have tried to create. I am not a racist. I am not insensitive to blacks.
Black people love Hispanics; Hispanics love blacks. We grew up with each other. We share a lot of the same stuff.
I've seen very few Hispanics and blacks who have been able to work their way into the advertising end of business.
I grew up around whites, I grew up around Jews, I grew up around blacks, I grew up around Hispanics. We moved a lot.
Let's be very clear: Living 'unforgiven' is not the sole domain of blacks. It can be found in any successful person.
Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic - including blacks, hispanics and students.
Only blacks can play the race card, apparently; only they think in racial terms, at least to hear white America tell it.
Democrats in Louisville were led by Courier-Journal editor Henry Watterson and were implacably opposed to blacks voting.
Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.
Jim Crow had unintended benefits. It forced blacks to build and rely on their own economic, educational and social systems.
As a filmmaker, deep blacks are essential, and in my experience, no technology captures those attributes as well as Plasma.
Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.
As a result of the absence and weakness of black men, blacks have allowed every ungodly thing to influence their communities.
I wear a lot of blacks and greys, then put in splashes of colours, but I like wearing strong shades like reds and neons, too.
I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
Most blacks have lost the moral authority to claim the mantle of civil rights because they refuse to stand for what is right.
What does it mean to be too black for Hollywood? It's self-explanatory. Hollywood has certain kinds of blacks that they like.
I grew up in Los Angeles when the racial tensions between blacks and Mexicans were very high. Gang violence was very prevalent.
Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.
The cultural war of words has actually been won by the most dispossessed people in the Western world, the urban American blacks.
Any successful black person will have to face suspicion within his or her own community about his or her loyalty to other blacks.
One puts on black robes to scare the hell out of white people, while the other puts on white robes to scare the hell out of blacks.
I wish there was more for minorities than sitcoms. I'd like to see a soap opera about blacks. People don't live in isolation anymore.
Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.
I shouldn't make fun of the blacks: President Obama is a personal friend of mine. He was over to the house yesterday, but the mop broke.
So much of what blacks and women contend with is centered in how we view, and how the world views, our bodies. Gestures, voices, affect.
I grew up in a neighborhood with blacks and Puerto Ricans and Italians, the whole gamut, so conveying unity has always meant a lot to me.
Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.
When I was growing up in Alabama in the '50s, even though we were poor and the laws were against blacks, we still had a sense of morality.
We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.
When blacks become humanly visible, when their true beliefs are known, their mask shatters and their symbiotic bond with whites is broken.
I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to bring opportunities to other blacks.
Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.
On the 'Blacks & Browns' record, it's me and Sad Boy. He's a Hispanic artist, and we're talking about what we got going on with our peoples.
The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.
So I'm in the Republican Party for the same reason I was in the Democratic Party: to make sure blacks are included, along with everyone else.
No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had.
My dad was my hero when I was a young boy. And then it's a toss-up between Han Solo, the New Zealand All Blacks Rugby team, and Marlon Brando.
Democrats know 'racism' doesn't exist, but they use it to silence white conservatives and to instill fear in blacks and motivate them to vote.
I was born and raised in Zambia in 1969. At the time of my birth, blacks were not issued birth certificates, and that law only changed in 1973.
Blacks, especially in America, have been raised with a slave mentality - they don't feel that they have the right to speak as loud as possible.
I just remember, it seemed to be the thing to do to get up a three o'clock in the morning and watch the All Blacks play England or South Africa.
My dad was such a bigot. He was a horrible, self-centred person. He was really racist and he'd talk about the Jews and blacks and Catholics even.
Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back.
The relationship between France and its 'foreign' players - blacks and North African Arabs - has always been troubled, particularly with Algerians.
Particularly in the South, efforts continue to be made to deny blacks access to the polls, even where blacks constitute the majority of the voters.
Part of what our problem as blacks in America is that we don't claim that. Partly, you see, because of the linguistic environment in which we live.
Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.