The thing about ’48 Hrs.’ that really isn’t thought about much is that’s the first film where the black and the white criticize each other. – Nick Nolte
Just wearing all black comes from Johnny Cash. I’m on the road so much that if I wear all black, my clothes never get dirty. You can’t tell if I’ve worn the same shirt twice. – G-Eazy
In the same way that Occupy Wall Street forever elevated that concept of income inequality, the Black Lives Matter protesters have elevated the idea of inequity in policing as it relates to minority communities. – Charles M. Blow
People from major labels were afraid to go to Black Flag gigs throughout most of the band’s existence. They treated our gigs as something threatening. I’m sure that it probably was. They probably had reasons to be scared. – Greg Ginn
It’s always hard when you’re playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There’s a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone’s idea of that. – Gary Oldman
And I’m happy to say that I’m able to find people wherever I go that are not black, not white – they’re just human beings. That’s where I am, where I’ve been and where I intend to stay. – Chico Hamilton
If you’re black and have leukemia, the chances of finding a donor are drastically reduced. I added my name to the register, and lo and behold, six months later, I was asked to donate. I had a week of ‘conditioning’ where I had to take these pills and injections to create new stem cells in my body. – David Harewood
Generally speaking, we as black people have been celebrated more for when we are subservient when we are not being leaders or kings or in the center of our own narrative driving it forward. – David Oyelowo
If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don’t know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something. – Dexter Gordon
I got into my very theatrical phase. I wore only black: a big black hat and wild hair and wild black clothes, and I carried a sword stick. I went there still looking like Miss Florida, and I came back looking very different. – Delta Burke
I’m just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I’ll be like, ‘Oh, look, something shiny!’ I’m glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous. – Florence Welch
In March of 1933 we witnessed a revolution in manner, in mores, in the definition of government. What before had been black or white sprang alive with color. – Emanuel Celler
If you think about it, I made history. Not only was I the first black British woman to be nominated for an Oscar, I was the first black British person. – Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Annie Lee Moss was a black woman who worked for the Army as a code clerk in the Pentagon. She was identified by an undercover agent of the FBI as a member of the Communist Party. Moss denied it, the Democrats sprang to her defense, and she has been treated ever since as an innocent victim of McCarthy. – M. Stanton Evans
‘Black Hawk Down’ has such distinctive visual aplomb that its jingoism starts to feel like part of its atmosphere. – Elvis Mitchell
I wish I was a cool guy and could drink coffee black, but I put almond milk and raw cane sugar in it. – Nick Kroll
I have been wearing black, which was a reaction to the Ginger thing. But now I have hopes and I can be anything. Tomorrow I might be naked with a feather boa, who knows? – Geri Halliwell
I wear white or pale-blue shirts and black knit ties: They don’t draw attention to me in any kind of peacockish way. – Charlie Siem
Black people are inferior to Caucasians. Blacks constitute a totally distinct group; they overshadow the country with the germ… of evil. – David Wilmot
One of the reasons I didn’t ever pursue a career – in the music world if you’re black or mixed, you need to be able to belt a song or else you’re not a singer, you know? – Carmen Ejogo
I don’t want to be known as the black model. I want to be recognized as Chanel Iman, a personality. – Chanel Iman
Paul Robeson was an athlete, Rutgers valedictorian, lawyer, writer, actor in movies and plays, great voice – a black male doing it all, back when some people thought he shouldn’t. One reason I do all the things I do is to break stereotypes that people can only do certain things. – Dhani Jones
SST was formed to put out the first Black Flag record. Basically, there wasn’t anyone else to do it. I felt that what I was doing with Black Flag was very worthwhile, and I wanted to get it out there. – Greg Ginn
More often than not, we think of ourselves as black, white, Asian, or Hispanic pretty much in this country, but the real America is much more than that. – Don Lemon
The Minutemen were seen as more of an art thing than Black Flag, although I didn’t see them that way. It confused people when we put out Saccharine Trust, too. – Greg Ginn
‘Black film,’ that term allows studios to just marginalize a movie and say, ‘We’ve made our black film. We’ve made our film with people of color in it,’ as opposed to, ‘I just feel like people of color should be in every genre.’ – Gina Prince-Bythewood