If the bus driver is black, I thank him… when I get off at my spot, whereas I would never think of doing this if the driver were white. – David Shields
Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and we just did it. – Geezer Butler
I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male. – D. B. Sweeney
There’s a great deal of disturbance in this country and how black feel about what happened in Katrina, and, you know, many of the comics, many of performers are in Las Vegas and New Orleans trying to raise money for what happened there. – Michael Richards
When you’re young, you think that clothes are almost magical, and that if you wear the right thing – to school, to the prom, on the date, etc. – something’s going to happen. Black, it’s the anti-magical thing. It comes from the recognition that it is not going to be ‘the’ dress. – Nora Ephron
So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we’re either the noble savage or we’re completely a savage, and there’s no nuance. – Don Cheadle
My family is part Creole, and we’re Indian, and we’re also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue. – Merry Clayton
I can adapt to any environment or any situation I need to, so I am ready to go to Russia. You take what you get or start crying about it, but I am re-doing ‘Rocky IV.’ I am doing the black ‘Rocky.’ – Deontay Wilder
I think that all services will have downtime. No matter how much you prepare, have redundant systems, or audit, there will periodically be a black swan event that is completely unlike whatever you’ve experienced before. It even happens to Google! – Matt Mullenweg
Paule Marshall does not let the black women in her fiction lose. While they lose friends, lovers, husbands, homes, or jobs, they always find themselves. – Darryl Pinckney
Black players had an issue with Joe Torre. They weren’t treated like everybody else. Even I got called out in a couple of meetings that I thought was unfair. – Gary Sheffield
I think it’s unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, and that is marriage. I think, for instance, that it would be far easier for Americans to elect a black president or a female president than an unmarried president. – Elizabeth Gilbert
We’re going to fight racism not with racism, but we’re going to fight with solidarity. We say we’re not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we’re going to fight it with socialism. – Fred Hampton
I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don’t think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die. – Nina Simone
I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug beefs. – Don Cheadle
God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone’s sexual preferences are or if they’re black, brown or purple. – Dolly Parton
I was always the black sheep of the family and always told that I was dumb, and I had a low IQ and did badly in school. – Francis Ford Coppola
Governing means governing all of the people, no matter what demographic it is, whether it’d be black, white, women, straight, gay, Republican. – Don Lemon
Blacks’ problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people. – Dinesh D’Souza
I am a black British female artist, so I must be like Ms Dynamite, I must be like Shystie, I must be like Jamelia, but we’re all different. – Estelle
I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I’ve grown up black and biracial in the United States. – Natasha Trethewey
I’m a real believer in dressing tone-on-tone. I’m not saying you need to dress black. Dress just one color so the colors are not breaking your silhouette. – Nina Garcia
If a liberal were to attack Justice Clarence Thomas on the grounds that he’s black, we would all go crazy. – Newt Gingrich
I think about never losing my voice, never giving in, never selling out, always keeping black, always sticking to the street. Staying neighborhood and not Hollywood. – Paul Mooney
I fell asleep during ‘Year One’ twice. And my son, who never falls asleep during a Jack Black movie, also nodded off. That’s how bad it was. I was incredibly disappointed. – Denis Leary
I think we did our first session in 1958. There were no black background singers – there were only white singers. They weren’t even called background singers; they were just called singers. I don’t know who gave us the name ‘background singers,’ but I think that came about when The Blossoms started doing background. – Darlene Love