The film Black Orpheus is one of my favorite films of all time, which is set in Carnival in Brazil.

The difference between a Black Thought album and a Roots album is the texture, the instrumentation.

I just bring a black turtleneck sweater everywhere - it's the greatest purchase of my life. Period.

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

In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.

The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.

I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered.

In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee.

Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath

I love “The Autobiography of Malcolm X.” That was like the only black book we read in high school...

No matter how much strong black coffee we drink, almost any after- dinner speech will counteract it.

The black nation of Egypt is the only country that has a science named after its culture: Egyptology

I've always laughed at the term "female director" or even "black director." A director's a director.

I have my favourite black knife with me all the time. It's a switchblade. It relaxes me to flick it.

Do you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts." He nodded. "But a useful one," he said.

Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black.

The Holocaust, taken by itself, is a black hole. To look at it directly is to be swallowed up by it.

I know I'm black. Everyone knows I'm black. But I don't want to be defined as a black hockey player.

I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.

Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.

Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.

To begin at the beginning: It is a spring moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black.

Even if its a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.

My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.

I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.

I don't care if you're gay, black, Chinese, straight. That means nothing to me. It's all an illusion.

When a woman dresses up for an occasion, the man should become the black velvet pillow for the jewel.

It's a lot easier being black than gay. At least if you're black you don't have to tell your parents.

If I entered a tropical beach, would I end up in Nazi Germany with my highly inconvenient black hair?

Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.

In many ways for black actors there's been two leading guys: It's Will Smith vs. Denzel [Washington].

Fashion may renew itself every six months but one thing remains the same: bouncers always wear black.

Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.

We lost the skyline We stepped right off the map Drifted into black space And let the clocks relapse.

Free-diving is all about dealing with anxiety. I've blacked out a few times. I've had big black-outs.

Sexism isn't a one-size-fits-all phenomenon. It doesn't happen to black and white women the same way.

The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.

Perhaps I'm being too optimistic, but I think this country is finally ready for a black serial killer.

If you look at the true essence of the Black Panthers, they were more of a community protection group.

It's barely OK for me to be dressed up as a black guy. But part of me kind of enjoys provoking people.

The world is a shoulder of dark meat (black flesh of an old mule). And the light is on the other side.

I have four strikes against me. I'm black, I'm short, I'm intelligent, and I have a medical condition.

A Black man voting for the Republicans makes about as much sense as a chicken voting for Col. Sanders.

I'm racist? How can that even be possible? I was a friend of Michael Jackson's back when he was black.

I love berries. Strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, black berries, anything with an 'errie' in it!

I'd like to get something small and self-generated in before Black Rock has whatever life that it has.

I'm from Planet Nomi where I wear black lipstick so you can see my lips and what I am doing with them.

Many Americans don't mourn in public anymore - we don't wear black, we don't beat our chests and wail.

Therapists are less likely to perceive a black woman as sad; instead they see her as angry or anxious.

Do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it is painted" -Valerie to Stephen (pg. 408)

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