A friend in the War Office warned me that I was in Kitchener’s black books, and that orders had been given for my arrest next time I appeared in France. – Philip Gibbs
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn’t there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything. – Robert A. Heinlein
Because of where I come from, I never thought I’d see in my life a black candidate running for President. – Samuel L. Jackson
Racial discrimination, South Africa’s economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing. – Oliver Tambo
Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce. – Octavia E. Butler
In a completely integrated unit where you’d have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers… I think you would have a problem definitely. – Omar N. Bradley
So now I feel I’m lucky in the respect that I can sort of pick a little more carefully, which is tricky because as a black actress, there aren’t that many roles to pick from. – Rachel True
The danger to a black child in America is not a white police officer. The danger is another black. – Rudy Giuliani
When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren’t backed up by the authorities. – Ruud Gullit
Black Fergusonians have shown that they will vote when they have something to vote for and know that their vote will count. Seventy-six percent of them turned out in November 2012, when Missouri was a key swing state for Barack Obama’s reelection. – Rick Perlstein
Above all, avoid the Indiana Jones fedora. It’s very yesterday, and if you wear a black one, you might be mistaken for an Orthodox Jew. – Roger Stone
I have found in black metal the lyrics are profoundly beautiful… a pathos and mythos at the same time. – Ryan Adams
A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family. – Saul Alinsky
The music I heard growing up, since there was no TV or cinema or record covers, I didn’t know if it was black, white, hip, square, male, female… whatever. I’d hear melodies and things and got intrigued on that level. – Robert Palmer
I was growing up in the New Wave period, but that wasn’t allowed in school. I remember moments when they wouldn’t let four people dressed in black stand together on the playground. – Raf Simons
It’s so hard to express yourself, because swimmers are pretty much paying attention to a black line for hours out of a day. – Ryan Lochte
I’m particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works. – Paolo Bacigalupi
There were always moments where I’d say, ‘What else can I do with my life?’ But when I was 30 years old and discovered I could write – I wrote ‘Black Cloud’ in six weeks – it opened up a whole new world for me. – Ricky Schroder
The misperception about the South is that everybody is racist, and all black people are victims, that what was prevalent in the ’60s is only relegated to the South. – Octavia Spencer
Sidney Poitier and Sidney Lumet were instrumental in helping me get started as the first black composer to get name credit for movie scores. – Quincy Jones
I guess, in a way, I grew up mixed race: half white, half black. That question’s always been on my mind: ‘What are you? Are you this or that? Are you a white dude or are you a black dude?’ In a strange way, music and comedy is kind of the same thing. I’m both. They’re just different modes of expression. – Reggie Watts
The thing I miss about Russia the most is what is called ‘black bread.’ It’s rye bread, and everyone eats it. I slice mine up and put sunflower oil and salt on it… the best thing ever. It was like a little treat for me when I was a kid. – Olesya Rulin
As a black man, you run from the cops. It’s different now, but back when I was coming up, you run. – Rodney King
I don’t see myself as a ‘black actor,’ I’m just Shemar Moore the actor. I’m very proud to be black, but I’m just as much black as I am white. – Shemar Moore
I think that many black people thought this would be a wonderful and extraordinary thing, for a black family to occupy the White House. Not only black people; a lot of white people thought that, too, but particularly black people. – Randall Kennedy
I’ve heard some people say that I’m selling out, but I’m not. If I hadn’t done ‘Black Radio’, and just kept on doing just piano trio stuff, I wouldn’t be honest with myself; I’d be doing it to please other people. That would be selling out. – Robert Glasper
I’m black, I don’t feel burdened by it and I don’t think it’s a huge responsibility. It’s part of who I am. It does not define me. – Oprah Winfrey