The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.

I’d like to see more crossover between white and black music. That’s something I’ve been advocating for years.

It doesn’t have to be dreads. You can wear an Afro, or braids like you used to. There’s a lot you can do with natural hair

Black and white players hadn’t appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G.

Banned and lionised by drunken cactuses,eternally sanguine in black and white, raw like the majestic sex on her ruby red deathswoman mouth, silver-coated terror in her eyes.

Oh, hey, kettle, I’m pot and wow, you’re black.” – Owen

In 1970, I was turning 29 years old, just 4 years out of art school. I had created a black and white drawing style mascot portrait called ‘Johnny.’ I made a poster for it and...

If we didn’t form prejudices, we wouldn’t be learning from our environment, you dolt. It’s an animal instinct. If a porcupine’s quill gets stuck in your hand once, you won’t be likely to go grabbing...

Black coffee is the latest fad I have picked up. Then there are my endless cups of chai! I’m trying to cut down and keep it to no more than three cups a day.

Aging bodies are fiscal black holes into which you can pour endless amounts of money.

Since the beginning of my recording career in 1975, I have had a little difficulty because the pop stations think I’m a jazzer who doesn’t have a feeling for pop, so it’s hard to get...

I think you should know that real-life white people are not all as funny as the ones on ‘Seinfeld’.

It’s not a common thing for a Southern white family to go out and seek their black cousins.

Black clothing makes me look skinnier. If I wear all black at night, and turn out the lights, I look so skinny that I disappear.

The darkness has ink eyes, and if you stare long enough, you’re going to see it blink black. That’s the moment to start writing.

Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn’t believe me, or didn’t want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very...

It’s very limiting to us as a species, the concept of better-than/less-than. It just seems to be at its end. I’m like, this all fades to black, and it’s gone. It’s dust. Choose carefully what...

I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.

For a quick, healthy meal that’s also fun for kids, I serve fish tacos: soft tortillas, lettuce, tomatoes, black beans and brown rice.

My training in martial arts was kind of a crash course in how to look like a black belt. I know the moves of a black belt – my kicks, and my stretches, and my...

If you can place black where it suppose to be, you will see white and white is light.

For there was nothing in his eyes but the black night and the cold stars.

Gratitude comes in a spectrum of colors, but Ingratitude is always black.

I’m light skinned, and I used to lean on that because that’s something a lot of black people pride themselves on, and it’s weird.

How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music is made from Black, brown, yellow, red and white.

Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it.

The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation’s dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates.

Whose little boy are you?

If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.

You taste injustice, even if it’s fictional, really taste it,it has a way of doing that. Sometimes, you can never put the shoe on the other foot. We can’t go back in time and know...

Names are powerful and are prophecies of the future. The name you are called is a sign of what you are and what you would become.

Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black people have been living in a state of terror in this country for more than 400 years.

My basics are black, white, or neutral, and I’ll wear a ton of jewelry or carry a brightly colored bag.

The reality is, is that the military is full of native nomenclature. That’s what we would call it. You’ve got Black Hawk helicopters, Apache Longbow helicopters. You’ve got Tomahawk missiles. The term used when you...

The trap had a ghastly perfection

I collect old Coon Chicken Inn memorabilia. I collect black memorabilia, like old minstrel posters. It was a real place. There was one in Seattle, one in Portland, and one in Salt Lake City. They...

I love mayonnaise. Every birthday when I was a kid I’d go to Black Angus and just dip my burger in mayo.

The people who couldn’t get out of New Orleans to escape the storm were predominantly Black.

Well, when The Black Keys make a record, I never really feel limited. To me, it seems the possibilities are always endless. The big difference has been playing live and being able to recreate every...

A lot of writers, especially crime writers, have an image that we think we’re trying to keep up with. You’ve got to be seen as dark and slightly dangerous. But I’m not like that and...

It did occur to me that certainly African-Americans are not underserved in picture books, but those books are almost all about specifically black experiences.

Western funerals: black hearses, and black horses, and fast-fading flowers. Why should black be the colour of death? Why not the colours of a sunset?

Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general.

I’m useless at staring at a piece of white paper. But if you put a piece of white paper with a black line on it in front of me, I’ll say no that black line...

It was lunar symbolism that enabled man to relate and connect such heterogeneous things as: birth, becoming, death, and ressurection; the waters, plants, woman, fecundity, and immortality; the cosmic darkness, prenatal existence, and life after...

I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.

In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends’ bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black record – the first thing I did that was an actual record.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

I like smudgy black eyes and pale lips for evening. Red lipstick looks great on other girls, but it’s too much on me.

It isn’t a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that’s beautiful.