I believe there’s – now, don’t get me wrong; I’m not prejudiced – there’s some white people in this country who’ll never accept the black man as a golfer. That’s true. – Charlie Sifford
Biology has progressed tremendously due to the model that Darwin put forth. But the black boxes Darwin accepted are now being opened, and our view of the world is again being shaken. – Michael Behe
Well, when The Black Keys make a record, I never really feel limited. To me, it seems the possibilities are always endless. The big difference has been playing live and being able to recreate every little part of the record. – Dan Auerbach
My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves. – Moon Unit Zappa
You can muck around with different guitars for certain bits, but you have to have your own sound. That’s your benchmark, that’s your sound. I also play a Black Beauty. It sounds amazing. – Dan Hawkins
Sometimes I even feel funny to say I’m in a biracial marriage because people are like, ‘Oh, he’s Asian?’ The subtext is, ‘Who cares? You didn’t marry a black person.’ – Diane Farr
I don’t really know what ‘a dark place’ means. I have windows in my house, and I’m generally an upbeat person! A lot of people throw that word at me because I wear a lot of black and leather. – Natalia Kills
I think probably the scaredest I’ve ever been was in Somalia. I arrived there when the episode that became known as ‘Black Hawk Down’ was still taking place. The Americans were still pinned down under fire. And everybody else was basically going the other way, and I was the only one putting my hand up for a flight in. – Geraldine Brooks
I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture. – Frank Lloyd Wright
I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person. – David Oyelowo
I don’t carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it’s the general public that made me – not any one particular group. So I don’t think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have. – Eartha Kitt
I’ve dated interracially a lot. I grew up in Harlem, so I’ve dated Latins, Dominican, Guyanese, Cuban, black, white. – Mekhi Phifer
We have a lot of black Anglo-Saxons. Their skin is black, but their brain is white. When I get real mad at them, I call them ‘graham crackers.’ – Paul Mooney
Investors are always biased to invest in things they themselves understand. So venture capitalists like Uber because they like driving in black town cars. They don’t like Airbnb because they like staying in five-star hotels, not sleeping on people’s couches. – Peter Thiel
So, I’ve never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people who don’t want to be read as just a black poet, or just a woman poet, or just someone who represents a cause, an anti-Vietnam war poet. – Diane Wakoski
There’s all kinds of depictions of black men. You have the Denzel Washingtons and the Will Smiths; that’s wonderful, but that doesn’t represent everyone. There’s a Russell Crowe… well, you know, there’s a black Russell Crowe. – Michael Jai White
I don’t want people to go to a film of mine because they feel guilty, like, ‘I have to support it because there’s black folks in there.’ I want them to go because it’s a good movie. – Gina Prince-Bythewood
There are still plenty of movie people peddling black stereotypes. I guess Tyler Perry’s probably the most massively successful. – Paul Mooney
White… is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black… God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
In 2013, 71 percent of black children in America were born to an unwed mother, as were 53 percent of Hispanic children and 36 percent of white children. Indeed, a single parent is the new norm. – Nicholas Kristof
What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job title – whether it’s ‘black actor,’ a ‘gay actor’ or anything actor. – Matt Bomer
Affirmative action is the most important antidiscrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a demonstrable effect on discrimination… Affirmative action, by all statistical measures, has been the central ingredient to the creation of the black middle class. – Eleanor Holmes Norton
The only reason black lives matter to the Left is to secure election majorities at election time. That is the only reason that black lives matter. – David A. Clarke, Jr.
The Zionists indeed learnt well from the Nazis. So well that it seems that their morally repugnant treatment of the Palestinians, and their attempts to destroy Palestinian society within Israel and the occupied territories, reveals them as basically Nazis with beards and black hats. – Norman Finkelstein
On the outside, America looks like this great melting pot, but on the inside, there’s this segregation in American cinema. Why does a Latino film have to be for Latinos? Why is a black film just for black people? Why? – Gurinder Chadha
From the first slave ship arriving in harbor, America stole and judged blacks. Black life that didn’t fit into white logic was commercially exploited or lynched. – David Shields