I always wear beige, black or white. For one thing I look good in them. For another, when I’m beside a star at a fitting, and she looks into the mirror, I don’t want to be competing in any way. – Edith Head
When you were growing up in the 30s, 20s, of course the 40s, all black people at least in the Washington, D.C., area were required to live among themselves. – Ed Smith
I have the most eclectic audience – I’ve got gay, I’ve got straight, black, white, rich, poor, young, old, in 45 countries. And they don’t all come because I’m the Sinatra kid, though that’s a big part of it. My biggest successes have come from pop songs that I write myself. – Michael Buble
I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp – just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man. – Dick Gregory
‘Roots’ did show that the audience would be receptive to black talent and a black story. – David L. Wolper
Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves. – Calvin Peete
What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled? – Desmond Tutu
I’ve always seen My Chemical Romance as the band that would have represented who me and my friends were in high school, and the band that we didn’t have to represent us – the kids that wore black – back then. – Gerard Way
Everybody in the ’80s, well, we hate rap. Now, the biggest rapper in the world… Eminem. Rap’s a black thing. – Chubby Checker
I’ve always been interested in masking, layering, dressing up and beautifying yourself and what that meant to black women. I’ve always wanted to make things that I haven’t seen before. – Mickalene Thomas
I have the utmost respect and ‘aloha’ for black people – who have already suffered so much due to racial discrimination and acts of hatred. – Duane Chapman
It’s good to play something that’s black and white, and a guy that sees right and wrong. I’ve never played a character like that. – David Lyons
One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they claim they sell very respectable numbers of my books, so I guess, and it’s true, every place I go, my books are in libraries and on bookshelves. – Diane Wakoski
‘Black Hawk Down’ wants to be about something, and in the midst of the meticulously staged gunfire, the picture seems to choose futility arbitrarily. – Elvis Mitchell
One of my personal plights in this business is about playing ‘The Sassy Black Girl.’ – Gabourey Sidibe
Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters. – P. J. O’Rourke
It would be extraordinary if the BBC were to make me the first black ‘Doctor Who;’ it would be extraordinary. – David Harewood
Personally, I’m very classic. If I’m going to wear a suit, it’s going to be classic, black, and fit very well. There’s nothing like it. – Michael Pitt
When I was first starting out, you’d have to bang an old upright piano and stick a mike in it and it would always feed back and you could never turn it up loud enough to be heard and I would beat my hands black and blue and bloody. – Edgar Winter
There are a lot of challenges I undeniably have faced as a black person both in the U.K. and in the U.S. that contrived to make me feel lesser than what I am. – David Oyelowo
Anybody who runs for president in this country and comes out as strong as the Democrats were about helping the poor folks and black folks is not going to win. – Charles Evers
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes – the whole bag of tricks. – P. J. O’Rourke
Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that’s what Washington was. – Ed Smith
I injured myself politically when I took on Jesse Jackson’ in the 1988 presidential campaign. I was too strident. I didn’t recognize the emotional tie that he had with all black voters. – Ed Koch
I’m a little concerned I’m always going to be playing a black guy, you know what I’m saying? – Dule Hill
What we witnessed in Ferguson, in Baltimore, and in Baton Rouge was a collapse of social order. So many of the actions of the Occupy movement and Black Lives Matter transcend peaceful protest and violates the code of conduct we rely on. I call it anarchy. – David A. Clarke, Jr.