Those without color—say, dressed in all black—can go about almost unnoticed. Where the rainbow is conspicuous, their darkness acts as a kind of camouflage, masculine by contrast, and allows them to watch without being watched....

Once again there was the desert, and that only.

When you look at the Lady Gagas of the world, or the Jay-Zs, or the Black Eyed Peas, these are people who have one album release and it’s a worldwide one.

Racism shall paint this universe black

No one who’s white thinks he’s innocent. No one who’s black thinks he’s guilty.

I haven’t acquired a taste for green tea, and I don’t intend to. I like my coffee black with a little sugar, and it keeps my metabolism up! I don’t mind the occasional Gatorade while...

What I do isn’t black music; it’s just my music.

Just like wearing black makes you look thinner, wearing a midget makes you look taller.

I certainly know about the oppression and prejudices of being black and a woman and from the South.

Anytime you see Beyonce, Jay Z, Kanye West. Anytime a young black person’s doing good, that’s motivation for everybody else. Anytime, anytime, it’s motivation. Use that fuel to push you forward. That’s what I did.

I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.

Racial discrimination, South Africa’s economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.

I look at graphic design as communication, meaning that the work has to have a vibe to connect to the viewer or perceiver. I make a black and white drawing and then add color digitally,...

I remember when I came home from the hospital after having my son, I wore a Narciso Rodriguez black coat. Then, I was using this fragrance that I had created. I walk by that coat,...

The one thing I’ve learned, getting out to all those foreign and domestic locales, is that people in every country of the ‘civilized’ world wish – either secretly or openly – that they had the...

Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man.

Whatever the mind can conceive it can achieve; I can CREATE whatever I can IMAGINE!

The black community has been the foundation of the progressive community in this country for a long time.

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

I think that American music, for me, it’s a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in North Carolina, the stuff that I was listening to, the things that I...

Black and awkward is the worst, because black people are stereotyped as being anything but awkward in mainstream media… Black people are always portrayed to be cool or overly dramatic, anything but awkward.

I love black truffles. I love white truffles.

If you’re black, if you’re gay, if you’re Latin – we’re all the same. We’re all the same, and we all want the same: We want to be happy.

Woody Allen has a wonderful line: ‘Today I’m a star. What will I be tomorrow? A black hole?’ That’s very important to know – that you have the moment, then you lose the moment. You...

I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.

I started writing because I got so frustrated that there weren’t enough plays that had roles for young black women in them.

Prince William looks good in uniform and Man-at-Hackett black and white tie (he has grown up wearing it constantly); less certain in his suits, which sometimes look borderline archaic; and variable in casual. But completely...

Because of where I come from, I never thought I’d see in my life a black candidate running for President.

After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.

People wanna say that they’re part Native American or mixed, or anything other than black. We’re raised to believe that there’s something better about not being fully black, something eccentric about it. I’m saying I...

It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater.

white is not always light and black is not always dark.

I would like to involve myself in some black music. I would like to do some blues and some gospel music. I want to try stuff from other genres and try to widen my musical...

My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.

Eventually, some black thinkers believe, this “separation” may be the shortest route to an authentic communication at some future date when blacks and whites can enter into encounters in which they truly speak as equals...

The falsetto stuff, it must be a reaction to the black gospel singers that I really enjoy listening to.

I love my black hair, but some imes I’d like to be blond, but I don’t think it suits Asian girl… What a pity!

I am an American, proud to be an American, proud to be a black American. I’m not African-American. I’ve never been to Africa. I’m an American that is black and my　– and I’m proud to...

First, you have stereotypes, and that will be the black drug dealer, the east Asian kung fu master, the Middle Eastern terrorist in ‘True Lies.’ Then you have stuff that takes place on culturally specific...

When I look into the crowd, I see young and old, black and white – it’s amazing that I’m able to connect with so many different kinds of people.

There was murder, there was rape, there were unspeakable practices, and all of them were for the good, the bloody good, the bloody myth, for the grail, for the Tower.

My parents used to rent old movies – my whole childhood is in black and white – and it was my dream to make films.

people are toxic, just smoke them in and smoke them out.

There were lots of smart black people at Harvard before Barack Obama, but none of them ever got to head up the law review. There has been a history of discrimination.

Like everyone else, I have my quirks. For one, I have to own only black cars and the registration has to have eights. It’s not something I can explain, it’s just there. Another obsession I...

A lot of people don’t understand the Black Panthers Party’s relationship with white mother country radicals.

Relaxing your hair is like being in prison. You’re caged in. Your hair rules you. You didn’t go running with Curt today because you don’t want to sweat out this straightness. You’re always battling to...

We grew up in a very strange world, because my mother was up against it all when she had three black children.

Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It’s a form of self hate. So, with reckless abandon, we strive to be like...

Why is it deemed justifiable and appropriate for cops/policeofficers to kill other cops (friendly–fire) and citizens?Why do cops kill?Are they not taught to maim or slow down someone runningor reaching for a weapon?If not, why...