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WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON This is another black eye, another slap in the face of the black community.
ADORA NWEZE This is another black eye, another slap in the face of the black community.
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The black community has been the foundation of the progressive community in this country for a long ... BENJAMIN TODD JEALOUS As president of NAACP, I stand behind Bennie and SCLC's decision. My personal view is if they were g...
CALVIN HENDERSON In the beginning it was all black and white.
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We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, a... JULES VERNE Black people are brown, light yellow and all different colors in the United States. White men create...
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DEBRA LEE The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are ...
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Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family... PATRICIA HILL COLLINS
So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laught... ZORA NEALE HURSTON
This barbershop being dedicated to a black American soldier also represents something very positive ... ANDREW JACKSON
The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ... JOHN LEGEND
The election, and even the re-election, of a black man as president, in a country that is 87 percent... DENNIS PRAGER The two co-chairs of the [Black Leadership Institute] decided to contact who they thought were very ...
AARON BLAKE It was a very acute racial moment. The trial about a black man killing a white woman exacerbated the...
SALIM MUWAKKIL He's not stupid. He is working hard in the black and Hispanic communities, and I have to believe tha...
MAURICE CARROLL
Black people have been qualified to be president for hundreds of years. George Washington Carver cou... CHRIS ROCK I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conve...
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GREG BEAR Kwanzaa is a holiday that should be celebrated by everyone, not just the black community.
JACQUI LEWIS In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.
TAVIS SMILEY Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic.
BOBBY SHORT Let’s go join the Black Swan!
SHANNON MESSENGER I don't think President Obama has been that revolutionary in reaching out to ethnic communities....
TERRENCE HOWARD It affects me even more because I wondered why are all the families black? Why are they all black?
JOYCE BROWN What those plays did for the black theater community was tremendous,
LLOYD RICHARDS
There was a manifesto in the late '60s/early '70s, and it basically laid out what 'black... KARA WALKER There's been an extraordinary expansion of the black middle class and a shift in the locus of leader...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
The black characters on TV are the sidekicks, or they're insignificant. You could put all the bl... ISSA RAE
Black, brown, white, yellow - why are we always talking about colors? I'm a girl. I believe in a... PRIYANKA CHOPRA African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the bla...
MALCOLM-JAMAL WARNER
One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community. ED SMITH
Homosexuality in hip-hop is an extension of homosexuality in the black community. The black communit... TALIB KWELI She was the blackest white woman in the world. She was a white woman passing for black in a black wo...
LARRY LESTER I think the black community is no different from any other community. We need to take responsibility...
PEARL CLEAGE
American television, for all its faults, still has a black presence in shows and even in commercials... DAVID HAREWOOD You have to know the forces that are against you and that are trying to break you down. We talk abou...
D'ANGELO
Blackness is a state of mind and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, ea... HALLE BERRY The first black president will be a politician who is black
DOUG WILDER The first black president will be a politician who is black.
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SHEILA JACKSON LEE
I think one of my first jokes - in the black community, there's people who have jokes about skin... HANNIBAL BURESS We want to bring the black community together to do something positive in the wake of this tragedy.
CHARLES MORGAN The so-called black leaders of this nation have convinced a large portion of the black community tha...
ALPHONSO JACKSON
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MICHAEL ERIC DYSON These kids have grown up together, and they see that all races get along well together. We don't see...
LARRY FRAZIER
I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters - two beautifu... MICHELLE OBAMA [The scene in Alabama was the latest evidence of the growing political clout of blacks across the co...
EDDIE WILLIAMS
That was the day my whole world went black. Air looked black. Sun looked black. I laid up in bed and... KATHRYN STOCKETT
We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community. RAND PAUL Nearly half of new infections are in the black community. The churches can say this is a gay disease...
LARRY COOK
We are all androgynous, not only because we are all born of a woman impregnated by the seed of a man... JAMES BALDWIN
In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the Afri... BARACK OBAMA I think that is a display of absolute disrespect to the black community.
GEORGE SINGLETON
Being a common laborer all my life at poor and underpaid jobs, I had worked with more black men, kno... CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Black Consciousness seeks to infuse the black community with a new-found pride in themselves, their ... STEVEN BIKO
Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, e... HALLE BERRY
Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class wit... HENRY LOUIS GATES Echelon is a black box, and nobody outside the intelligence community knows what is inside it.
BARRY STEINHARDT It's important to understand we are committed to the overall University community as well as being f...
GREGORY JACKSON
The first black president was a hotter plot line than the first woman president. TINA BROWN
It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sens... STOKELY CARMICHAEL
Black males who refuse categorization are rare, for the price of visibility in the contemporary worl... BELL HOOKS
Blood is the leitmotif of 'Black Swan.' ROBERT GOTTLIEB I try to bring to the attention of this community and our black youth that there are black cowboys a...
FRED GRAY
I don't even want to touch on the topic of black quarterback, because I think this game is bigge... CAM NEWTON
Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four. CHRIS ROCK I grew up in Columbia, Maryland, a planned community built during the sixties. During the early year...
MICHAEL CHABON
The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the blac... CARLOS FUENTES
The leaders and followers of the Harlem Renaissance were every bit as intent on using Black culture ... ABERJHANI
Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. Pe... ED SMITH That's two-and-a-half times what it was just 20 years ago. Even more striking than that ... if you l...
EDWARD SONDIK
It was darker than a pitch-black panther, covered in tar, eating black licorice at the very bottom o... LEMONY SNICKET I believe in limited government. I know what the welfare state has done to the black community.
DAVID A. CLARKE, JR.
Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: A... B. B. KING
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS
Many of the Jews who owned the homes, the apartments in the black community, we considered them bloo... LOUIS FARRAKHAN This could signal a turning point in our community. We are seeing an unprecedented discussion about ...
KEITH BOYKIN It's a terrible loss but something is better than nothing. It's a long haul and it will take time fo...
DAVID GERALD Maya Angelou had the ability to glean inspiration out of pain.
THE PROPHET OF LIFE
Coal-black is better than another hue
In that it scorns to bear another hue;
For all the water... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
It's not enough even to have one black Barbie... because black women are not a monolith. AVA DUVERNAY A lot of joblessness in the black community doesn't seem to be reachable through fiscal and mone...
WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON He was the Moses for the black community. He broke the barrier. He showed us the way.
DICK BLAKE
Religion looms as large as an elephant in the United States, to the point that being nonreligious is... FRANS DE WAAL I have this really morbid, awesome love for the movie 'Black Swan.'
SHERRI SAUM The beginning of black studies was the idea that it would be a collaboration between the academy and...
GLORIA SMITH
I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimac... ELIZABETH GILBERT From New York to Los Angeles, Black gay people have been the backbone of the Black church. Through t...
KEITH BOYKIN 'Black Messiah' is a hell of a name for an album. It can easily be misunderstood. Many will ...
D'ANGELO
If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS
My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so... 
Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al... 
No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai... 
By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am... 
Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s... 
This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war... 
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. 
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. 
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. 
High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ... 
When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b... 
The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi... 
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ... 
I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm... 
Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa... 
How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. 
You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw... 
I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'... 
The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ... 
Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my... 
As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot... 
When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent. 
My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers. 
I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the prop... 
Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly li... 
If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ... 
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't i... 
Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving. 
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. 
Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking. 
If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good. 
Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte... 
The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. 
I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i... 
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir... 
Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness. 
Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar. 
It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad y... 
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students. 
With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to ... 
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undi... 
Old friends are best. 
Rome was not built in one day. 
I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life. 
The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team. 
A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment. 
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. 
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people cal... 
I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to ... 
You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part. 
Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depress... 
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. 
Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence. 
The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do. 
There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles! 
When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regim... 
Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd... 
Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the tw... 