The black community sees itself as one group, and they are all experiencing the same experiences as a group with racism and whatnot, growing up in this country. – Andrea Navedo
The music played most around St. Louis was country-western and swing. Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of the country stuff on our predominantly black audience. After they laughed at me a few times, they began requesting the hillbilly stuff. – Chuck Berry
The institutionalization of Black Studies, Feminist Studies, all of these things, led to a sense that the struggle was over for a lot of people and that one did not have to continue the personal consciousness-raising and changing of one’s viewpoint. – bell hooks
The minimum wage is the black teenage unemployment act. It is the guaranteed way of holding the poor, the minorities and the disenfranchised out of the mainstream is if you price their original services too high. – Arthur Laffer
I just dress like… I’m an old black man. Sorry! Like I’m an old Jewish black man. I just dress like it’s still the ’50s. – Amy Winehouse
My sons remember me most as a Cardinal. My one son is 26 years old, and I don’t think he’s ever seen me without a beard. It’s not as black as it used to be, but it’s still there. – Bruce Sutter
I want to burn as a beacon of possibility. I don’t want nobody to misconstrue the commercial success I’ve had as anything other than an example of what black music is capable of. And what it’s capable of is being more than just black. I’m not black or white anymore. I’m Cee Lo Green. – CeeLo Green
A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer. – A. Whitney Brown
I like edgy but classic looks – like Chanel mixed with Alexander McQueen. My personal style is edgier. My closet is just black, gray, and white. I’m more comfortable in darker colors and leather jackets. – Ashley Benson
The vast majority of murdered whites are murdered by other whites. That’s why there’s no national outrage when a white person is killed by a black person: it’s not evidence of some underlying black violence problem directed against white people. – Ben Shapiro
Black audiences are hard. They always think they’re better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them. – Bernie Mac
The roles that I feel I get, or handed to me, or whatever, are not that interesting. I don’t think it’s a problem that’s specific to black women. I think it’s a problem that’s specific to movie-making in America. – Aunjanue Ellis
I don’t care who the president is – it ain’t just all about who’s black or who’s white or who’s Republican or Democrat, it’s about who is for the betterment of people, period. – Big Boi
In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today. – Buchi Emecheta
Within three months I had gone from being this black sheep of the town to suddenly becoming a pop star. – Alison Moyet
Kids that I went to school with didn’t know how to interact with black people like that. There were only, like, three or four black kids in the class. – Big Sean
Aaliyah revolutionized what it was to be a young black woman in America. She made it OK to be a nerd and to be a tomboy. She made it OK to wear leather and chains. She was the first black girl with an ombre. She was so far ahead of everything and everyone. It was just who she was. She was an innovator, but she didn’t even realize it. – Alexandra Shipp
There’s something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black women. It’s a reflection as opposed to an interpretation. – Ava DuVernay
As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching. – Carter G. Woodson
And I guess what I would say is that we can’t think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can’t necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation. – Angela Davis
What’s more important than who’s going to be the first black manager is who’s going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times. – Bill Russell
Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That’s what you learned: Anytime something was not good, or anytime something was bad in some kinda way, it had to be called black. Like, you had Black Monday, Black Friday, black sheep… Of course, everything else, all the good stuff, is white. White Christmas and such. – B. B. King
If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet. – Brad Holland
I got into Dio when I was still quite young. I remember seeing the video for ‘Rainbow In The Dark’ on MTV. That was my first taste of Dio. It wasn’t until years later that I realized he had this whole career with Rainbow and Black Sabbath and even going back to Elf. When I saw that video, it instantly became one of my favorite songs. – Corey Taylor