An ordinary black hole is thought to be the end state of a really massive star’s life. – Andrea M. Ghez
You know it’s going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black. – Charles Barkley
I can tell you from personal experience it gets a little tiring having to make the rounds on cable shows to explain ‘what’s up with black folks.’ – John Ridley
The current neglect of the problem can only irritate this deplorable state of affairs. The Black Muslims should constitute a warning to our society, a warning that must be heeded if we are to preserve the society. – Andrew Goodman
The liberal psyche wants to protect minorities, to apologize for imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and the appalling treatment of black people during the civil rights movement. At the same time, they want to continue to defend the rights of individuals. – Ayaan Hirsi Ali
We don’t all have to take the same coordinates to get to the same destination. Being a young African American female artist, I want to open doors for young black girls. – Janelle Monae
North Korea faded to black in the early 1990s. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, which had propped up its old Communist ally with cheap fuel oil, North Korea’s creakily inefficient economy collapsed. Power stations rusted into ruin. – Barbara Demick
It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater. – Alvin Ailey
Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism. – Audre Lorde
I don’t care if you’re gay, black, Chinese, straight. That means nothing to me. It’s all an illusion. – Joe Rogan
I’m not that interested in fashion… When someone says that lime-green is the new black for this season, you just want to tell them to get a life. – Bruce Oldfield
In those days, man, in the ’50s, black people in the South… We didn’t recognize contracts that much. And we didn’t recognize marriages that much, either. – Ike Turner
I’m not signing on to direct ‘Black Panther.’ I think I’ll just say we had different ideas about what the story would be. Marvel has a certain way of doing things, and I think they’re fantastic, and a lot of people love what they do. I loved that they reached out to me. – Ava DuVernay
It did occur to me that certainly African-Americans are not underserved in picture books, but those books are almost all about specifically black experiences. – Chris Van Allsburg
The pattern of a newspaperman’s life is like the plot of ‘Black Beauty.’ Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings. – A. J. Liebling
The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are not really white, and that black people are not black. – Albert Murray
Me and Lucas Black are actually starring in that movie ‘Fast and the Furious 3: Tokyo.’ It’s gonna be hot and different. My first action movie, so it’s gonna be great. – Bow Wow
Turkey is a European country, an Asian country, a Middle Eastern country, Balkan country, Caucasian country, neighbor to Africa, Black Sea country, Caspian Sea, all these. – Ahmet Davutoglu
Obama is not an African American president, but a president of all Americans. It doesn’t matter if you are black, white, Hispanic, he’s the president of all races. – John Lewis
At one point, there wasn’t a black quarterback in the NFL. When you start winning, then you start seeing more. Jumping up and down and screaming and calling people names is not going to change anything. – Antoine Fuqua
After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he’s been through is the reason why. – Ben Stein
I haven’t done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and they are pretty young; so given the concepts that the film was about a superhero, it was a black superhero, and it was a father and son type partnership. – Blair Underwood
Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were previously. It use to be possible to go to the bar on the corner and hear music. It was available for a fifteen cent beer. – Archie Shepp
I can be standing in Barneys with my coat and purse and my selections, and some white woman will say, ‘Can you get this in my size?’ What she sees is a black woman, and her service button goes off. – bell hooks
Well, like most black Americans, I grew up thinking I was supposed to be a Democrat. It wasn’t even something you questioned or thought twice about. Black equaled Democrat. – Angela McGlowan