The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

Eyes is the attempt to tell the story of the Civil Rights movement and to create an emotional, intellectual constituency. But what do you do after that? The black community doesn’t have institutions that pick...

Every nation is part of the history we inherit, blacks and whites, slaves and gods; we have no other option, embracing each other.

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin’ hell, but as long as they ain’t free, I ain’t free.

You wake up white, and you think about certain things every day. You wake up black, and you think about certain things. You wake up Chinese, and you think certain things – but those things...

I used to wear Clark Kent glasses, ever since I was in college. I used to have those Army-issue glasses, and they used to be those black glasses Clark Kent used to wear. And I...

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

I went to an historically black college where we’re always told that there’s limitation. And so I’m happy to represent for black colleges.

There’s a hole in the world like a big black pit who are filled with people who are filled with shit.

I love Daredevil. I thought it was enjoyable. Okay? There were critical issues with it, and that’s why I wear black, some people wear red – we are entitled to our opinions.

I went to Brunel University and very much wanted to go on to do a PhD in management, but then my acting career started to take off. In those days when you switched on the...

Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.

I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of Summit where most of the black families lived. My parents and...

Every black film feels like it’s Tyler Perry, and that just needs to stop. But people seem to slowly be looking for what else is out there – ‘Is there something else besides this type...

I have never been afraid to go a bit out there with what I am wearing on film. I tend to be a bit more conservative in real life, with mountains of black in my...

Despite all the dark armor, the kohl liner, the black boots and chains, she saw him clearly now. She’d peered through the curtain of that cruelcalmness, through the death stare and the vampire sentiments and...

All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide;but a hidden star can still be smiling at night’s black spell on darkness, beguiling

Won’t it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

I always crave to see more stories about and by people of color, particularly new work by young black writers.

I loved the atmosphere of the dance studios – the wooden floors, the big mirrors, everyone dressed in pink or black tights, the musicians accompanying us – and the feeling of ritual the classes had.

I voted for Barack because he was black. ‘Cuz that’s why other folks vote for other people – because they look like them… That’s American politics, pure and simple.

Dizzee’s just my childhood hero. He’s definitely the inspiration. He’s got himself to a very good place. He’s defied the expectations of what British black urban music was like. He was the first person who...

She got a long pointed nose and big fleshy mouth. Lips look like black plum. Eyes big, glossy. Feverish. And mean. Like, sick as she is, if a snake cross her path, she kill it

My splurge would be a pair of leather Christian Louboutin over-the-knee boots. They’re sick! I would do a really stretchy skinny jean under a black turtleneck and call it a day!

We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.

What I think is a really special movie is ‘Black and White’ with Kevin Costner and Octavia Spencer, which Mike Binder directed. I got to see a screening of it, and I think Kevin and...

Deny a man pleasure, the possession of woman’s body and he will show you his true colors.He will dismiss his frustration onto her, forcibly abuse her, offend her all at the cost of his desires,...

I don’t know about black or white magic I just know one type and that is your magic.

Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action – those are genres. I think there’s a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don’t think people are...

I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.

The President of the United States, if you remove his blackness, then just ask the question, is he a good President or is he a bad President for the United States? Just remove the blackness...

From time to time, you may see a girl wearing her black opaque tights as pants. They are, in fact, not.

Have a look around, my pretty, we are surrounded by Death in all forms – just the two of us are still alive –

They were close to the end of the beginning . . .

You can never have too many black pumps. Never!

Nobody black had learned anything from the ‘Letter from the Birmingham Jail’ or from the ‘I Have a Dream’ speech. That was a revelation of white people.

Being glamorous is about strength and confidence. It’s black and white – dramatic. You have to be strong.

We’re going to fight racism not with racism, but we’re going to fight with solidarity. We say we’re not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we’re going to fight it with socialism.

For years I’d thought my color was black: deep, dark, thoughtful, mysterious. Black, you can hide behind. But now I know it is red.

We don’t have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There’s a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it’s not like a piece of Washington or Chicago.

That doll looks more like a black man than me.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don’t talk skin to me.

One of the most special things about the city of New Orleans is how diverse a people we really are. There’s been a new generation of individuals that have all grown up together, so I...

I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It’s still my symbol of rebellion — against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of...

I have found in black metal the lyrics are profoundly beautiful… a pathos and mythos at the same time.

My mother was a member of the Cape Coloured community. ‘Coloured’ is the South African word for the half-caste community that was a by-product of the early contact between black and white.

By regulating marijuana, we can put black market drug dealers out of business and eliminate the rebellious allure that attracts young people.

All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death’s wing flashed ahead.

I know how to be funny to black audiences.