Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their alienation. This museum has certainly stood for that in this town. – Katherine Dunham
Black holes can bang against space-time as mallets on a drum and have a very characteristic song. – Janna Levin
We are all somewhere or the other a little grey, not black and white. We have our imperfections. – Kriti Sanon
I think, for a while, there was a kind of debate about whether you could bring back Negro and reclaim it, and then it was black versus African American; now I have noticed in conversation that black people will use all three terms depending on context. I don’t advocate one term. – Margo Jefferson
Monofilament is what you use to go fishing. The line on your fishing rod is probably going to be black. You get to the end of the line and you tie on this clear plastic, thin thread called monofilament. – John Badham
The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God. – Malcolm X
I think that we see Steve Jobs as the genius speaker in the mock black turtleneck with the round glasses, sort of beautifully delivering his new product, and I think that for people to understand that he started in a garage. – Joshua Michael Stern
I did a film called ‘Black Dynamite’ that was very, very funny. That seems to be a film that’s kind of a cult classic. – Kevin Chapman
You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don’t want my kids to just focus on being black. They are people. I don’t want them to judge other people or to be judged. I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place. – Kevin Hart
There are bad people and there are bad corporations. Just as there are good people and good corporations. That might seem too black and white, but what can I tell ya? – James Murdoch
When I was growing up, I was told you could be anything you want to be, but I didn’t really believe that because you couldn’t be president. Like, I knew that; we never had a black president. – Mahershala Ali
As far as trucks, the great thing about a Range Rover is if you’re going out for a dinner, even a black tie event, you can take the Range Rover. – Luke Goss
When I cook for my family on Christmas, I make feijoada, a South American dish of roasted and smoked meats like ham, pork, beef, lamb, and bacon – all served with black beans and rice. It’s festive but different. – Maya Angelou
If there’s a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to not cross it. – Lauren Groff
If you go down through the horizon of a black hole, at the center you don’t find a tunnel that leads you to some other place in the universe. – Kip Thorne
Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it’s global. He puts his colossal foot on the vulnerable necks of poor people, and as a result of that, we don’t have a balanced conversation. – Michael Eric Dyson
When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, ’cause that was the best game. And these guys, they’d let me play. And they were black guys. – Larry Bird
Black holes destroy any objects that happen to fall victim to their gravitational pull. – Kevin McCarthy
Jeremiah Wright is one of the greatest prophetic preachers that black America has produced. What I find striking is that many white brothers and sisters miss the fact that there would be no black church if the white church wasn’t political and racist in refusing to worship with us. – Michael Eric Dyson
I started taekwondo at 5 or 6 years old and did a bunch of kick-boxing later, too. Eventually I became a black belt and coached as well. I did some basketball and softball growing up, but most of my activity was martial arts. – JWoww
Fashion for my mother was about asserting and demonstrating you had aesthetics, tastes, sensibility, manners, beauty – qualities that black people were always trying to prove they possessed, because it was often assumed that we didn’t. – Margo Jefferson
Every black comedian in the country knew what I could do. But that doesn’t mean everyone else is paying attention. – Leslie Jones
Red-hot songs were born on the black streets of Baltimore, where I delivered five-gallon cans of kerosene and ten-pound bags of coal. – Jerry Leiber
If it’s lawful to have a rifle club to kill pheasants, it should be just as lawful to have one to kill wolves or dogs that are being sicked on little black babies. In fact, it’s constitutional. Article Number Two of the constitution guarantees the right of every citizen to own a rifle or a shot gun. – Malcolm X
The falsetto stuff, it must be a reaction to the black gospel singers that I really enjoy listening to. – Justin Vernon