There’s a thing called the ‘One Drop’ theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you’re black. – Keegan-Michael Key
I would have young dancers come to me and ask me questions and want to know what my experiences were like: ‘What’s it like being a black dancer?’ So I just felt like it was necessary for me to share my experiences with them. – Misty Copeland
Many foreigners imagine that Latin American cuisine is spicy, but Chilean food, on the whole, is extremely bland: salt, vinegar, mayonnaise, and more salt are the four basic condiments. Black pepper is conspicuously absent, and not only from the food – it is also rarely available even on request. – Jonathan Franklin
To win the nomination, you speak to people who vote in Republican primaries. And they tend not to be millennials or minorities… When I win the nomination and show up at a black church, they say, ‘Where have you been Mr. Romney?’ – Mitt Romney
I feel the feminist movement has excluded black women. You cannot talk about being black and a woman within traditional feminist dialogue. – Katori Hall
I feel a responsibility to continue creating complex roles for black women, especially young black women. – Katori Hall
When I’m around black or white people, I’m always in the middle. Especially when I am around black people; they will really tell how they feel about white people regardless of the fact that I’m also white and have white relatives. It’s very interesting and can be really hard. – Karyn Parsons
I always wear the same thing: a tight white shirt – I have about 50 – and tight black trousers. – Marie Helvin
I’ve nothing against kids reading anything they please, but I do have a problem with pink books for girls and black books for boys. – Joanne Harris
This is not about race or affiliation, and it isn’t about black versus blue. All lives matter. – Marcia Fudge
I do a chimichurri sauce with garlic, parsley, olive oil, and red and black pepper. You just mince the garlic and the parsley and mix it all together. Brush a little of that on a steak and it kicks it up, like, 10 notches. – Julie Gonzalo
I was a total floral hippie as a child so when I finally could make my own choices, I’ve been living in different black suit jackets and been really drawn to masculine clothes. – Lykke Li
Countless black citizens in the South couldn’t vote. They were second-class citizens from cradle to grave. The discrimination was terrible, brutal. – John Doar
Black English is simpler than standard English in some ways; for example, it often gets by with just ‘be’ and drops ‘am,’ ‘is,’ and ‘are.’ That’s because black English arose when adult African slaves learned the language. – John McWhorter
Just as black and white, when mixed, make grey, in many ways that’s what it did to my self-identity: it created a murky area of who I was, a haze around how people connected with me. I was grey. And who wants to be this indifferent colour, devoid of depth and stuck in the middle? I certainly didn’t. – Meghan Markle
When I see the black experience – there’s not one, but it is specific, and you can’t ignore it. – Leslie Odom, Jr.
The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide. – Larry Elder
I don’t display my plaques and honors. They are hidden behind a black curtain in my work room at home. – John Cameron
To describe something as being black and white means it is clearly defined. Yet when your ethnicity is black and white, the dichotomy is not that clear. In fact, it creates a grey area. – Meghan Markle
When the citizens of Baltimore banded together to repel the British during the War of 1812, three in five were immigrants, and one in five was black – some were free, some slaves. – Martin O’Malley
Since pre-Emancipation, black ‘females’ have had to fight for the whites-only privilege of being deemed ‘ladies’: cultured, educated, sexually desirable in a socially respected way. Michelle Obama has managed to get all this without yielding her right to be smart and strong-willed. – Margo Jefferson