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What if Eminem was black? would he have sold five mil. Or would he be 1 out of 5 million rappers with no deal?
I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I'll black out the windows or something.
It's as if a child with a brush and too much enthusiasm has been set free with a tin of black paint inside me.
Did you know that the black suited organization that attacked the Koresh cult was a United Nations task force?
There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal.
Keep on complaining about slavery and that was over 40 to 50 years ago. You know, black folks need to move on.
Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.
To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.
The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. A pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention.
If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.
I am for feminism. I stand up for women standing up for themselves in the same way I stand up for being black.
In hindsight, I feel like I made the right decision to choose production that would get played on black radio.
Black movies don't have real names, they have names like Barbershop. That's not a name, that's just a location.
These people didn't know anything about black people, so the only thing they could imagine was the worst thing.
I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery.
I'm a tech geek. Whenever I read about something new, I think to myself, How can I take this and make it black?
My family is part Creole, and were Indian, and were also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.
Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.
Many black men leave because they are financially responsible - not because they are emotionally irresponsible.
I was raised a black child in the South, where you're indoctrinated into a religion that an oppressor gave you.
Our families have fallen to pieces. 75 percent of all black children are born out of wedlock, without a father.
I was the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana in 1960.
Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.
Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief.
What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?
For one quarter, Black Tiger lets me escape from my rotten existence for three glorious hours. Pretty good deal.
black isn't beautiful and it isn't ugly - black is! It's not kinky hair and it's not straight hair - it just is.
I don't like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
They say African Americans. I say black people. I've only been to Africa once. I've been in America all my life!
This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
I asked her if I was black or white. She replied "You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!
Rep. James Clyburn, the state's only black congressman -- controls 20 percent to 25 percent of the primary vote.
The Word is the Magic that Humans possess and misuse of the Word is Black Magic... Be Impeccable with Your Word.
When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black.
to speak as black, female, and commercial lawyer has rendered me simultaneously universal, trendy, and marginal.
I like most kinds of music. So I haven't got a bag, as they say... except the big black one in the hall outside.
What was your life anyway but the tiny black spot of what you've done against the infinite white of possibility?
I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.
I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
If you're a young black dude from the hood you want to come through the hood in a car that makes a lot of noise.
I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
You literally cannot deny the fact that rock and roll was born because of blues, and blues is black man's music.
When Shonda Rhimes writes her autobiography, it should be called How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman.
I've had two unlucky injuries that are the equivalent of walking under 1,000 ladders and seeing 1,000 black cats.
The subset of our population that has not benefited from the advancement of medication is black and brown people.
It is the mission of the printer to diffuse light and knowledge by a judicious intermingling of black with white.
Oh, Lady Maccon, I am unreservedly in love with her. That black hair, that sweet disposition, those capital hats.
Obviously I'm in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians.