There’s sort of a persistent misperception that talking about race is black folk’s burden. Ultimately, only men can end sexism, and only white people can end racism.

It’s almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It’s their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it’s...

There is no shortage of well-known pirates, including: Henry Morgan, Captain Kidd, Blackbeard, Blue beard, Yellowbeard, and Yellow beard with Black Roots, who surmised that, if blondes have more fun, then blond pirates must have...

My first web series, ‘Dorm Diaries,’ was a realistic mockumentary about what it was like to be black at Stanford University. I’m black and I went to Stanford. Boom. Easy.

The movie ‘Black Cat,’ from 1934, is one of my favorite movies.

It appears that there is a genocidal plan against Black people.

I grew up doing martial arts, and I’m a second-degree black belt.

I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.

Most of India’s 300 odd news channels are making losses and are dependent on dubious cross holding, black money and dodgy private equity investors, both foreign and Indian.

The White Company offers its loyalists an altogether better, whiter world. The White people have edited out any colours that aren’t white, off-white, milk chocolate, grey, taupe or black. They can’t be doing with Johnnie...

It’s not a huge surprise that there are habitations at the bottom of the Black Sea.

Not all black people are loud, ghetto, and ignorant, Some of them act like they got some common sense.

I don’t think being black has held me back at all. Being black makes you strong.

The idea of ‘talking white,’ a lot of people grew up around that, just the idea that if you speak with proper diction and come off as educated that it’s not black and that it’s...

They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be carried out in the streets. That’s like when they tell you after you...

I aim my music at the hip black hip-hop audience.

Most of today’s black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.

I always get the ‘goth girl’ thing because I wear black. But I don’t worship death.

I’m a suspicious mulatto, which means I’m too black to be white and too white to be doing it right.

For the most part, I’ve been influenced by black singers and singers I couldn’t sound like. Whenever I tried to do a dark note or a bent note, I would just sound like Hootie And...

Think of what starlight And lamplight would lack Diamonds and fireflies If they couldn’t lean against Black. . . .

When I cook for my family on Christmas, I make feijoada, a South American dish of roasted and smoked meats like ham, pork, beef, lamb, and bacon – all served with black beans and rice....

To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.

I see black light (his last words)

Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.

White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there has been a steady undercurrent of mutual admiration, an intermingling of cultures unheard...

I really feel all my adult life has been spent in that little black box. If a wonderful part on TV came along I would do it. But I don’t want to do a recurring...

I was much more comfortable and a much better congressman running in a district that was 37 percent black, where I had to have a white constituency to get elected, than I would have been...

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.