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It's good to be surrounded by black folks. Black folks are music.
JAMIE FOXX![]()
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
NINA SIMONE For Black Music Month, I would definitely want to celebrate Isaac Hayes.
JUICY J What I do isn't black music; it's just my music.
DARYL HALL Motown was about music for all people - white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was...
BERRY GORDY![]()
I prefer black music in general.
PHIL COLLINS You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically...
LANCE REDDICK American music culture is black culture.
YELAWOLF![]()
Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of th...
DAVID SANBORN![]()
You go through the Civil Rights struggle, everybody knew the songs - 'We shall overcome.' Ev...
GEOFFREY CANADA We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun...
DANIEL JOHNS Most of the music we will be performing is by major black jazz musicians and composers.
GLENN MARTIN I thought that I would like to be affiliated with some school or institution. As time went on, I als...
DONALD BYRD My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instru...
BILL KREUTZMANN![]()
He'd been listening to black music all his life,
JIMI HENDRIX I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman.
DAVID ALAN GRIER![]()
Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to ...
AUDRE LORDE The Righteous Brothers were purely rhythm and blues, black music.
BILL MEDLEY![]()
I think that many black people thought this would be a wonderful and extraordinary thing, for a blac...
RANDALL KENNEDY![]()
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play b...
NINA SIMONE There is not enough faith in black music at a high level.
ESTELLE I was around kids and kids' music. Maybe I started doing my own for selfish reasons. I wanted kids t...
LAURIE BERKNER A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of.
MICHAEL BOLTON![]()
I called Jermaine [Dupri, artist/producer and head of black music at Virgin], and it was on.
BIG BOI![]()
We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black...
G. WILLOW WILSON Kansas City, I would say, did more for jazz music, black music, than any other influence at all. Alm...
JESSE STONE![]()
Blacks own so little of the music business it's pathetic. But I see that changing soon. Black artist...
BARRY WHITE Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were ...
ARCHIE SHEPP![]()
In 2010, aside from that niche of music that I have no interest in - Black Eyed Peas territory, disp...
TRENT REZNOR![]()
I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved ...
SHARON STONE![]()
Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring ...
MOS DEF That's because we did not set out to make black music. We set out to make quality music that eve...
SMOKEY ROBINSON![]()
Napster was a black market for music. Ninety-nine per cent of the music that people were downloading...
CHAD HURLEY The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant...
BORIS VIAN In music, the Specials brought a city, Coventry, bombed out for a second time and riven with racism,...
MELVYN BRAGG The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And wha...
BOBBY SEALE Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.
MIGUEL A lot of people have accused Elvis of stealing the black man's music, when in fact, almost every bla...
JACKIE WILSON![]()
The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female ...
MAYA ANGELOU I would say I'm black because my parents said I'm black. I'm black because my mother'...
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN![]()
When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and ...
NINA SIMONE Black is best worn as an ensemble - black with black. Black with color is not quite where we are rig...
GREGG ANDREWS![]()
Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: A...
B. B. KING![]()
I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long t...
QUINCY JONES I know a lot of people who enjoy rap music who aren't black. You can't just say it's bla...
F. GARY GRAY If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it wou...
DEXTER GORDON God only knows what we'll see. I already have whiplash from all the colorful, hippy, boho looks from...
CINDI LEIVE The problems of the nation that are reflected in black music don't seem to be changing. The music is...
BILL FERRIS This is really the only formal black tie optional event that's held in Allen. We always have a lot o...
SHARON MAYER My son used to talk about young black men going to prison all the time in his music,
AFENI SHAKUR If music were to be a person he would have been the best person ever to live,for it never discrimina...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It's devastating. That's the birthplace of the music of this country. That includes all the genres o...
MARCUS BELGRAVE![]()
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON![]()
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
RICHARD M. NIXON A gentleman by the name Robioson the authorized signatory of Black Rock seems to be in possession of...
APURVA GAGLANI The SS were the men in black. He was proud to be a man in black and they were pleased to have him. H...
GERDA KOPKOW Oppenheimer was well known for black hole theory. He as a subject was a black hole extremely enig...
KAI BIRD![]()
There was always music in our home. My mom and my dad loved music. I remember when we were kids we w...
QUEEN LATIFAH Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach ...
MICHAEL BOLTON I joke to people in the press that I realize I'm not black, I'm actually white. But I've...
GLENN HUGHES black magic spells http://www.astrodost.com/islamic-black-magic-spells-for-love black magic spells, ...
ASTRODOST We didn't have a single agenda when we made this album. We didn't write these songs to appeal to rec...
BRADD SHAPIRO![]()
I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me g...
JAMES TAYLOR![]()
You’re playing the creepy vibe a little hard,” I said. “Might as well go for broke, put on a b...
JIM BUTCHER We wanted a census of all the black holes and we wanted to know what they are like. We also wanted t...
DR. NIEL BRANDT![]()
Diversity doesn't mean black and white only.
HENRY LOUIS GATES The thing we love most about Hurley is he's somehow able to say what people are saying in their livi...
CARLTON CUSE![]()
Black holes may be apertures to elsewhen. Were we to plunge down a black hole, we would re-emerge, i...
CARL SAGAN I heard George Crumb?s ?Black Angels? and I knew that I had just heard the music that I was born to ...
DAVID HARRINGTON![]()
With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. ...
JACK WHITE The Black Lives Matter movement can be read as an attempt to keep mourning an open dynamic in our cu...
CLAUDIA RANKINE It would be sunny, and then boom! It's just be black as night.
AMY HESS Black sesame seeds http://www.krishnaindia.in/black-sesame-seeds Black sesame seeds in india, Black ...
KRISHNAINDIA Dance and music is the ultimate celebration. It's a way of celebrate our past experiences, and it's ...
BILL FERRIS![]()
The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment b...
QUINCY JONES Black skin was filled with so many barriers, so many restrictions, so many.
RANDI PINK![]()
It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once-when I was poor.
LARRY HOLMES In the beginning it was all black and white.
MAUREEN O'HARA![]()
My interest as an artist is to illuminate the lives of black folks. I definitely am focused on films...
AVA DUVERNAY One motivation for the 'Soul Train' awards was the grumbling that all of us in the industry ...
DON CORNELIUS All the men in Daddy's records sang of love with drastically imbalanced emotion. In the span of thre...
RASHOD OLLISON I don't know why he wanted it black. I thought the gray would not be depressing.
MARCIA CARROLL![]()
People called me 'Iman the black model'. In my country, we're all black, so nobody calle...
IMAN I'd like to see more crossover between white and black music. That's something I've been...
DARYL HALL![]()
Black and awkward is the worst, because black people are stereotyped as being anything but awkward i...
ISSA RAE![]()
Dr. King would be No. 1 thrilled with the racial advances we've made, but he would be disappointed i...
CHARLES BARKLEY![]()
There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the bl...
AUGUST WILSON![]()
Black as the night.
Black as the depths.
Black as your heart.
Where your hatred's at ...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS We're very into black. Black is the new black. Black is back in a major way.
IRENKA JAKUBIAK![]()
Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, ...
ALICE WALKER I was in the Black Power movement. I feel as energized about Black Lives Matter. I don't feel in...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE![]()
I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hu...
C. L. R. JAMES![]()
We as men, in particular black men, are constantly supported, nurtured, forgiven, apologized for, le...
JESSE WILLIAMS When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we h...
PATRICIA SUN We support the black candidates because we're sure they're going to vote in the liberal interest.
IKE BROWN She was the blackest white woman in the world. She was a white woman passing for black in a black wo...
LARRY LESTER![]()
It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.
LARRY HOLMES![]()
I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadn...
ERIC CLAPTON “Affirmative action has done as much injury to black scholars as black students”
ERNEST VAN DEN HAAG Affirmative action has done as much injury to black scholars as black students
ERNEST VAN DEN HAAG
JAMIE FOXX
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music. NINA SIMONE For Black Music Month, I would definitely want to celebrate Isaac Hayes.
JUICY J What I do isn't black music; it's just my music.
DARYL HALL Motown was about music for all people - white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was...
BERRY GORDY
I prefer black music in general. PHIL COLLINS You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically...
LANCE REDDICK American music culture is black culture.
YELAWOLF
Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of th... DAVID SANBORN
You go through the Civil Rights struggle, everybody knew the songs - 'We shall overcome.' Ev... GEOFFREY CANADA We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun...
DANIEL JOHNS Most of the music we will be performing is by major black jazz musicians and composers.
GLENN MARTIN I thought that I would like to be affiliated with some school or institution. As time went on, I als...
DONALD BYRD My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instru...
BILL KREUTZMANN
He'd been listening to black music all his life, JIMI HENDRIX I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman.
DAVID ALAN GRIER
Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to ... AUDRE LORDE The Righteous Brothers were purely rhythm and blues, black music.
BILL MEDLEY
I think that many black people thought this would be a wonderful and extraordinary thing, for a blac... RANDALL KENNEDY
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play b... NINA SIMONE There is not enough faith in black music at a high level.
ESTELLE I was around kids and kids' music. Maybe I started doing my own for selfish reasons. I wanted kids t...
LAURIE BERKNER A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of.
MICHAEL BOLTON
I called Jermaine [Dupri, artist/producer and head of black music at Virgin], and it was on. BIG BOI
We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black... G. WILLOW WILSON Kansas City, I would say, did more for jazz music, black music, than any other influence at all. Alm...
JESSE STONE
Blacks own so little of the music business it's pathetic. But I see that changing soon. Black artist... BARRY WHITE Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were ...
ARCHIE SHEPP
In 2010, aside from that niche of music that I have no interest in - Black Eyed Peas territory, disp... TRENT REZNOR
I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved ... SHARON STONE
Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring ... MOS DEF That's because we did not set out to make black music. We set out to make quality music that eve...
SMOKEY ROBINSON
Napster was a black market for music. Ninety-nine per cent of the music that people were downloading... CHAD HURLEY The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant...
BORIS VIAN In music, the Specials brought a city, Coventry, bombed out for a second time and riven with racism,...
MELVYN BRAGG The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And wha...
BOBBY SEALE Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.
MIGUEL A lot of people have accused Elvis of stealing the black man's music, when in fact, almost every bla...
JACKIE WILSON
The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female ... MAYA ANGELOU I would say I'm black because my parents said I'm black. I'm black because my mother'...
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN
When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and ... NINA SIMONE Black is best worn as an ensemble - black with black. Black with color is not quite where we are rig...
GREGG ANDREWS
Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: A... B. B. KING
I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long t... QUINCY JONES I know a lot of people who enjoy rap music who aren't black. You can't just say it's bla...
F. GARY GRAY If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it wou...
DEXTER GORDON God only knows what we'll see. I already have whiplash from all the colorful, hippy, boho looks from...
CINDI LEIVE The problems of the nation that are reflected in black music don't seem to be changing. The music is...
BILL FERRIS This is really the only formal black tie optional event that's held in Allen. We always have a lot o...
SHARON MAYER My son used to talk about young black men going to prison all the time in his music,
AFENI SHAKUR If music were to be a person he would have been the best person ever to live,for it never discrimina...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It's devastating. That's the birthplace of the music of this country. That includes all the genres o...
MARCUS BELGRAVE
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. RICHARD M. NIXON A gentleman by the name Robioson the authorized signatory of Black Rock seems to be in possession of...
APURVA GAGLANI The SS were the men in black. He was proud to be a man in black and they were pleased to have him. H...
GERDA KOPKOW Oppenheimer was well known for black hole theory. He as a subject was a black hole extremely enig...
KAI BIRD
There was always music in our home. My mom and my dad loved music. I remember when we were kids we w... QUEEN LATIFAH Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach ...
MICHAEL BOLTON I joke to people in the press that I realize I'm not black, I'm actually white. But I've...
GLENN HUGHES black magic spells http://www.astrodost.com/islamic-black-magic-spells-for-love black magic spells, ...
ASTRODOST We didn't have a single agenda when we made this album. We didn't write these songs to appeal to rec...
BRADD SHAPIRO
I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me g... JAMES TAYLOR
You’re playing the creepy vibe a little hard,” I said. “Might as well go for broke, put on a b... JIM BUTCHER We wanted a census of all the black holes and we wanted to know what they are like. We also wanted t...
DR. NIEL BRANDT
Diversity doesn't mean black and white only. HENRY LOUIS GATES The thing we love most about Hurley is he's somehow able to say what people are saying in their livi...
CARLTON CUSE
Black holes may be apertures to elsewhen. Were we to plunge down a black hole, we would re-emerge, i... CARL SAGAN I heard George Crumb?s ?Black Angels? and I knew that I had just heard the music that I was born to ...
DAVID HARRINGTON
With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. ... JACK WHITE The Black Lives Matter movement can be read as an attempt to keep mourning an open dynamic in our cu...
CLAUDIA RANKINE It would be sunny, and then boom! It's just be black as night.
AMY HESS Black sesame seeds http://www.krishnaindia.in/black-sesame-seeds Black sesame seeds in india, Black ...
KRISHNAINDIA Dance and music is the ultimate celebration. It's a way of celebrate our past experiences, and it's ...
BILL FERRIS
The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment b... QUINCY JONES Black skin was filled with so many barriers, so many restrictions, so many.
RANDI PINK
It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once-when I was poor. LARRY HOLMES In the beginning it was all black and white.
MAUREEN O'HARA
My interest as an artist is to illuminate the lives of black folks. I definitely am focused on films... AVA DUVERNAY One motivation for the 'Soul Train' awards was the grumbling that all of us in the industry ...
DON CORNELIUS All the men in Daddy's records sang of love with drastically imbalanced emotion. In the span of thre...
RASHOD OLLISON I don't know why he wanted it black. I thought the gray would not be depressing.
MARCIA CARROLL
People called me 'Iman the black model'. In my country, we're all black, so nobody calle... IMAN I'd like to see more crossover between white and black music. That's something I've been...
DARYL HALL
Black and awkward is the worst, because black people are stereotyped as being anything but awkward i... ISSA RAE
Dr. King would be No. 1 thrilled with the racial advances we've made, but he would be disappointed i... CHARLES BARKLEY
There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the bl... AUGUST WILSON
Black as the night.Black as the depths.
Black as your heart.
Where your hatred's at ...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS We're very into black. Black is the new black. Black is back in a major way.
IRENKA JAKUBIAK
Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, ... ALICE WALKER I was in the Black Power movement. I feel as energized about Black Lives Matter. I don't feel in...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE
I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hu... C. L. R. JAMES
We as men, in particular black men, are constantly supported, nurtured, forgiven, apologized for, le... JESSE WILLIAMS When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we h...
PATRICIA SUN We support the black candidates because we're sure they're going to vote in the liberal interest.
IKE BROWN She was the blackest white woman in the world. She was a white woman passing for black in a black wo...
LARRY LESTER
It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor. LARRY HOLMES
I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadn... ERIC CLAPTON “Affirmative action has done as much injury to black scholars as black students”
ERNEST VAN DEN HAAG Affirmative action has done as much injury to black scholars as black students
ERNEST VAN DEN HAAG
I was completely unqualified to get into Harvard. But then I went to my interview for Harvard, and t... 
Despite the hysteria from the political class and the media, smoking doesn't kill. 
If you try to do your best there is no failure. 
We are ramping up security in the United States but also looking at visa applicants, visa waiver app... 
Rebellion has its roots in government's indifference and incompetence. 
My dad's gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationship... 
Protection of religious freedom means considering the faiths and beliefs of everyone involved. 
The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character. 
I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman. 
I've lived places these guys can't defecate in. 
If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago. 
I love Broadway shows. 
For most of the '90s and the first part of this decade, content providers who wanted to publish ... 
We found a way to make things look great to the human eye through the window of a graphical web brow... 
You can have the best technology, but you if have a corrupted, radicalized, bribed official that has... 
Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man is powerless to control. 
The true measure of a man is not what he dreams, but what he aspires to be; a dream is nothing witho... 
By sabotaging logic, the common frame of reference, and the common language, we have removed a "safe... 
The reason that most British actors are better than most American actors in the end is that they don... 
In making the jump from a local program to the showcase of a coast-to-coast broadcast, Ted Yates and... 
In my home state of Indiana, we prove every day that you can build a growing economy on balanced bud... 
A great thing is happening on cable TV. You see characters change in stories over years, like in Tol... 
Cardinal Raymond Burke is a 66-year-old guy who lives in Rome, dresses like Queen Elizabeth, and tal... 
I think I make films to help bolster and feed the part of me that wants to remain in a positive rela... 
Boldness isn't something you're born with; you either choose it or you don't. 
What's the difference between a 3-week-old puppy and a sportswriter? In 6 weeks, the puppy will st... 
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. 
What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe. 
I think blogging, by and large, is basically therapy. And I'm sure, and I know, that there are s... 
I'm unable to do the thing that Broadway actors do in plays, sometimes for years. The same exact... 
And let's stop calling them "sex offenders," as if their crimes had anything to do with sex. (Perhap... 
The rape of a child is a violent act of contempt, not an expression of sexuality or affection. 
I'm telling you this for one reason and one reason only: No matter how sure you are of someone's lov... 
There is a time in the life of every problem when it is big enough to see, yet small enough to solve... 
I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary sit... 
Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in onese... 
I'm not trying to prove anybody wrong, I'm just trying to prove something to myself. 
The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves. 
You will always move toward anyone who increases you and away from anyone who makes you less. 
If you are determined enough and willing to pay the price, you can get it done. 
I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on ... 
Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and ... 
Nouvelle Cuisine, roughly translated, means: I can't believe I paid ninety-six dollars and I'm still... 
If you think about yourself then you've lost sight of the ball. 
I draw most of my religious beliefs from Star Wars. 
Anyone who contributes to the defense fund
of pornographers is a mental moonbeam. 
Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting. 
Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. An... 
I'm a comedic actor, not to mix words, but it's something I think about. A comedic actor. I ... 
There is only one way to solve the alleged crisis of the erosion of 'family values.' And tha... 
The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history. 
Our job is to ensure that meat and poultry products are safe, wholesome, accurately labeled for the ... 
I actually had a Bobby Orr action figure. You could put the pads on him and skates and all that. I w... 
I love playing the Hard Rocks; they've got a great stage, great lighting, great sound, and not s... 
I've always wanted to be on a show that's well respected and had critical acclaim and that p... 
I think my philosophy in music has been to accentuate the positive. 
There is no progress without risk, and in an environment where change is accelerating, risks are mul... 
I sort of ride the fence on that whole steroid era issue. I don't have a definite opinion like s... 
If you're Burberry or Gucci, you're not going to run a banner ad. To get brand ad dollars to... 
It's one thing for someone to travel over to Syria and Iraq and come back. But, boy, it's a ... 