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.

I know what’s good for me. I can’t play black or gray. I can’t be a villain or anything close to one. I have to play white.

Blacks’ problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.

Yeah, I love being famous. It’s almost like being white, y’know?

There’s so many, ‘no, black people aren’t like that’ barriers in mainstream media.

When I was 10 or 11, my grandmother had a scarf. It was black, but a long one. I used to wrap it around my head and say to them that ‘I’m a cleric, you...

There is no one right now in my judgment that can unite the Black electorate in such a way to present our agenda to a nominee to have them forthrightly address our concerns.

I started doing martial arts when I was about 7, and I got my second degree black belt when I was 19. So I have my second degree black belt, but I’ve never used it,...

When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That’s a terrible burden.

It is early, early morning. It’s that time when it’s still dark but you know the day is coming. Blue is bleeding through black. Stars are dying.

The music I heard growing up, since there was no TV or cinema or record covers, I didn’t know if it was black, white, hip, square, male, female… whatever. I’d hear melodies and things and...

I’m playing dark history. It’s beyond black. I’m dealing with the dark things of the cosmos.

Crowdfunding is the new black.

I miss my Dad. My Dad loved cheesy monster movies, so we’d have Godzilla movie marathons. Those are some of my favorite memories, laughing at how the monster outfits were so bad, like black garbage...

I like black, because for me it is a very happy color.

They’re keeping friction going between people from the East and the West. One thing we all got in common is your color, which is Black and Latino, which is our family.

I think in black.

And I’m happy to say that I’m able to find people wherever I go that are not black, not white – they’re just human beings. That’s where I am, where I’ve been and where I...

I had a dream about you. Our relationship faded from red to white, and somewhere in the middle, in the pink zone, I told you I loved you and you returned it. However, at white,...

He will bring us all, rich and poor, white and black, to his judgment seat.

God is on my side, and that’s all I need. I get up in the morning, I pray to God. I don’t pray to the president, the governor, the mayor, no black caucus, no this...

I love Tumi because of the lifetime guarantee. And their luggage is just so solid. Looks good. Versatile. My carry-on bag is Tumi. My hanging bag is Tumi. My big suitcase is Tumi. All black....

The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black...

My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don’t switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.

Andy once clipped a magazine article about how black dogs are always the last to be adopted at shelters and, therefore, more likely to be put down. Which is totally Dog Racism, if you ask...