I try to avoid wearing black because sometimes it’s the easy option. But I’m young, so it’s nice to be able to play with color and not just wear black all the time. I can save that for when I’m older. – Emma Watson
I had the opportunity of making necropsies on patients dead from malignant fever and of studying the melanaemia, i.e., the formation of black pigment in the blood of patients affected by malaria. – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
I do know in the 1960s comics, Martian Manhunter took on the form of a black man – that could have been influenced by the political climate back then. – David Harewood
I’m a black American, and I’m proud to represent who and where I’m from – unapologetically. There’s no shame in my game. – Mickalene Thomas
I wanted to make a movie about a black family in Middle America. I wanted to make a film where everyone can look at them and say, ‘This is my family.’ – George Tillman, Jr.
My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector’s zeal. – Edward G. Robinson
Of course there is school and sports, but I also like X-Box 360. ‘Black Ops 3’ is one of my favorites. I also like to play the guitar and piano. – Chandler Canterbury
I dyed my hair red when I was ten and when I was 11 – in my goth period – I dyed it black and I was really into witchcraft. I made mini shrines in my bedroom with candles and tried to cast spells to make the boy in the next class fall in love with me. I don’t think he did. – Florence Welch
The Blues scene now is international. In the ’50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the ’60s onwards it changed. – Mick Taylor
We’ve begun to put fear into those whites who think they can do anything they want to a black person and get away with it. – Charles Evers
Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus Christ and that the born-again are not just little old ladies in black but also CEOs and provosts of universities and candidates for office. – Edmund White
In America, black urban teenagers have long been lacking in inclusion. In France, there is a comparable lack of inclusion among North Africans. In much of Europe, there has been little attempt to include the Roma. – Edmund Phelps
You don’t have to paint your walls lime green just to try to have your home feel decorated. If you’re a classic dresser or preppy dresser or a modern dresser, you wear a lot of black – whatever it is – your home should reflect that as well. – Nate Berkus
‘Out of Sight’ is one of my favorite films ever. Love Steven Soderbergh. ‘Goodfellas’ was a huge influence on me in terms of the use of camera. ‘Black Orpheus,’ a beautiful love story that very few people actually have seen, and that was an influence on ‘Beyond the Lights,’ too, in terms of the look of the film. – Gina Prince-Bythewood
In Darwin’s time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure and function because, ultimately, no one could explain how biological processes occurred. – Michael Behe
I believe I can do it, but one of the reasons I don’t really get into the debate is people keep talking about a black James Bond: how a black man should play him. – Colin Salmon
I didn’t feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, popping the chicken bones, you know. It blinded me. Everything was black. It was bright noon day sun. You mustn’t get walked on by elephants. – Peter Beard
When writing on black life, whites have often been unwelcome, usually called upon to give witness or hauled in as the accused. – Darryl Pinckney
When I started at Pratt, Spike Lee had his 40 Acres and A Mule studios down the street. You’d see Rosie Perez walking around going to Mike’s Coffee Shop. So it was this black bohemian. – Mickalene Thomas
I felt that it was my mission to see to it that black talent had an opportunity to get national television exposure. – Don Cornelius
Since neither black animosity nor the Left’s falsehood of ‘racial tensions’ is based on the actual behavior of the vast majority of white Americans, nothing white America could do will affect either many blacks’ perceptions or the leftist libel. – Dennis Prager
I love liquid eyeliner – it’s just easier. It doesn’t melt, fade, skip, or smudge. It’s tougher to use because it’s not as forgiving. The brush for my em michelle phan Scribble Calligraphy Liquid Liner was inspired by a calligraphy brush, so you can get a very thick or thin line, depending on how you flick it. I use it in Tattoo Black. – Michelle Phan
There’s a number of years that went by going from a white belt to a black belt. And I think, in a similar respect, years go by with your maturation process, and it’s just as important to be disciplined with that as it was in karate. – D’Brickashaw Ferguson
I’m not a painter by any stretch of the imagination; I’m a dyed-in-the-wool traditional illustrator, and I begin with black and white. If I need colour, I add it over the top. There’s a calligraphic element to it… it’s about the texture of lines on the page. – Chris Riddell
No matter who you are, black, white, green, there’s going to be things in your way, you know what I mean? – Nas