I wanted to make a black story about South Africa. Unfortunately, no producer in the United States would put one penny into a black story. – Euzhan Palcy
Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak ‘job interview.’ – Dave Chappelle
The First Amendment allows Nazis and white extremists to do what they are going to do, and it allows for black extremists and all other types of extremists to do what they are going to do. I understand that, and I’m not opposed to that. – Niger Innis
‘The Black Parade’ is an epic, theatrical, orchestral, big record that is also a concept album. – Gerard Way
Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community. – David Sanborn
Adele’s voice is incredible. Chet Baker also has one of my favorite voices of all time, and so does Joni Mitchell. And Frank Black. Oh, and Stevie Nicks. – Megan Boone
What does it mean to be too black for Hollywood? It’s self-explanatory. Hollywood has certain kinds of blacks that they like. – Paul Mooney
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that’s not what I play. I play black classical music. – Nina Simone
If you read the memoirs of slave-owning families, you’d be hard pressed to find evidence of black people in the lives of the whites, even though for most of the time on the plantations black people outnumbered whites by a ratio of seven to one. – Edward Ball
Mr. Cosby wanted to do a show not about an upper-middle-class black family, but an upper-middle-class family that happened to be black. Though it sounds like semantics, they’re very different approaches. – Malcolm-Jamal Warner
I believe in limited government. I know what the welfare state has done to the black community. – David A. Clarke, Jr.
If I could dress anyone, I’d like to dress the Queen – she can handle anything. I’d put her in black – she never wears black – and add a little leather, maybe. A little rock n’ roll. – Donatella Versace
I was mostly influenced by bands like Black Sabbath and Judas Priest – Metallica’s ‘Kill ‘Em All’ was also a hell of an inspiration. – Dimebag Darrell
In my own life, when I’m not working, I do wear a lot of black. I think I do feel very comfortable in black. – Gugu Mbatha-Raw
The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law. – David Mamet
‘Misty of Chincoteague’, ‘The Black Stallion’, the ‘Saddle Club’ books, I read ’em all. I was horse-crazy. – Maggie Stiefvater
To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white. – e. e. cummings
I enjoyed every minute of what I was doing with sessions, because The Blossoms, the group that I was singing with, they were the first black background singers. There weren’t any. – Darlene Love
I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn’t pay the rent. – Philip Zimbardo
It’s nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager. – Frank Robinson
I don’t think it’s different to be a black girl in England than it is to be a black girl from America. We all collectively share in a pain of displacement and not feeling like we quite belong in places. – Cynthia Erivo
My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone. – Florida Scott-Maxwell
Everybody knows I wear a lot of black. When I pack, my whole bag is nothing but black, but sometimes, I have, like, a few pieces that are white, but it’s rare. – Mariacarla Boscono
For a radical feminist to try to change the church was like a black person trying to reform the Ku Klux Klan. – Mary Daly
I love that as a black person I’ve experienced not being a minority. I think that’s helped me to combat the minority mentality people can have here, which can stop them scaling the heights. – David Oyelowo
The fact that I was black and desirous to do my work, the other kids would call me a coconut, as if I were somehow attempting to be white. The bullying was real: I’d get punched, spat at, terrible things. – David Oyelowo
I would like to involve myself in some black music. I would like to do some blues and some gospel music. I want to try stuff from other genres and try to widen my musical base. – Greg Lake
I never thought I’d see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi. – Dick Gregory