I try not to read the stuff online because it's so hurtful and stuff. There was somebody that said I was messing up my genetics by dating my boyfriend because he's not black. It was an interesting thing to read.
~ Taylour Paige
Back in the 1970s, Kodak tried to give $25m to a black civil rights organisation in Rochester, New York. The company's shareholders rose up in arms: making this politically charged offering wasn't the reason they had entrusted Kodak with their money. The donation was withdrawn.
~ Noreena Hertz
The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work.
~ Richard Pryor
Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.
~ James A. Baldwin
I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.
~ Paolo Bacigalupi
Winter in the country is very white. There is black grit on all the shoulders of the roads and on the big mounds from the plows, and all the cars are filthy, but the fields are dazzling and untouched and pristine.
~ Susan Orlean
I rolled the second car that I ever owned, a Toyota 4 Runner. This was winter in Colorado, two weeks before the 2002 Olympic trials. I was driving in the outside lane, and my rear tire caught some black ice, and we totally turned sideways to the point where we were heading right toward the median.
~ Apolo Ohno
Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?
~ Ridley Scott
The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better.
~ Ewan Mcgregor
Ever since the romantic comedy-drama 'She's Gotta Have It' antagonized black women and black men in 1986, Spike Lee's films have enjoyed the outrage of various groups.
~ Lee Siegel
A lot of people don't understand the Black Panthers Party's relationship with white mother country radicals.
~ Fred Hampton
Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.
~ Henry Louis Gates
The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.
~ Maya Angelou
I find a lot of poetry very disappointing, but I do have poets that I go back to. One book of poetry that I'd like to mention is 'The Exchange' by Sophie Cabot Black. Her poems are difficult without being too difficult.
~ Billy Collins
Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.
~ Kanye West
Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
~ Muhammad Ali
Anger in the black community towards Republicans is established and immutable.
~ Bob Beckel
As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.
~ Carter G. Woodson
I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.
~ Hank Aaron
We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost.
~ Jeremiah Wright
We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.
~ Jules Verne
My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.
~ Florida Scott-Maxwell
White folks, no matter how well-meaning or open-minded, have no true idea what it's like to be black in America. That's not a slam against white people or an accusation of latent bigotry. But the fact is that we all live in an Anglo-dominated society.
~ John Ridley
I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.
~ Ray Charles
When you look at the big issues post-9/11 in the United States, whether it's water boarding, warantless wire tapping, surveillance, Gitmo, black sites rendition, all of those have been legal. Nobody has gone to jail for those programs.
~ Matt Apuzzo
I love a black wedding dress.
~ Vera Wang
The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy.
~ Janet Street-Porter
For her fifth wedding, the bride wore black and carried a scotch and soda.
~ Phyllis Battelle
I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
~ Frederick Douglass
