I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we’ve had in a long time. It’s sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America. – Quincy Jones
‘American Horror’ goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience – ‘Flowers in the Attic’ paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like ‘Let’s Scare Jessica to Death.’ It even has ‘Go Ask Alice’-era urban legends. – Rob Sheffield
People only look at you and say, ‘You are black and you are from the banlieue,’ and all the doors are closed. I had the desire to be something else. If I see a door that is a little open, I will find a way to get through. – Omar Sy
The trials my father went through were things most young black males have to go through. There was nothing he shielded from me, because it doesn’t matter how you grow up, those who oppress will oppress. It’s all completely relatable; everyone feels NWA. – O’Shea Jackson, Jr.
We need to have a conversation about the fact that black faces are not as visible as they should be, that there is huge inequality everywhere in terms of race. – Ruth Negga
Obama, he wouldn’t have been in office without what happened to me and a lot of black people before me. He would never have been in that situation, no doubt in my mind. He would get there eventually, but it would have been a lot longer. So I am glad for what I went through. It opened the doors for a lot of people. – Rodney King
Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America. – Richard M. Nixon
When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on ‘The Black and White Minstrel’ Shows. – Rachel Tucker
We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides. – Saint Ignatius
I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many people, black and white, were instrumental in changing the Jim Crow status quo on all levels. – Rita Dove
It’s always extremities when you are a young black male dealing with law enforcement. – O’Shea Jackson, Jr.
All families had their special Christmas food. Ours was called Dutch Bread, made from a dough halfway between bread and cake, stuffed with citron and every sort of nut from the farm – hazel, black walnut, hickory, butternut. – Paul Engle
Texting has reduced the number of waste words, but it has also exposed a black hole of ignorance about traditional – what a cranky guy would call correct – grammar. – Richard Corliss
I’m very proud to be black, but I’m just as much black as I am white. But I want tell stories that everybody can relate to, so I don’t care who’s opposite me. – Shemar Moore
I wasn’t really conscious about ‘The 39 Clues’ movie when I wrote ‘The Black Circle.’ – Patrick Carman
It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldn’t stand seeing them hurt like this. – Quincy Jones
I was up watching Meet Joe Black at four AM. I was hoping Brad Pitt would die, and he was still alive at seven forty in the morning! I actually felt sorry for once, for critics. – Rose McGowan
There are some in black robes sitting on federal benches all across this country. They’re Democrats, Republicans, liberals, and even conservatives that pervert the Constitution. – Paul Broun
And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, ‘love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow. – Peter Tosh
I come from a magnetic field of Catholicism. I was baptised by my mother’s family, who were all traditional Catholics. But my mother was the black sheep of the family – she ran away to the ballet at 17. – Pawel Pawlikowski
In the days of segregation, when blacks were limited to certain neighborhoods, you could look around the black community and identify who the leaders were. – Roger Wilkins
Legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women-with men relating to that the best they can. – Robin Morgan
In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours. – Olga Kurylenko
I probably saved more black lives as mayor of New York City than any mayor in the history of this city. And I did it by having to use police officers in black areas where there was an astounding amount of crime. If that crime was in white areas, police officers would be in white areas. – Rudy Giuliani
Black patients were treated much later in their disease process. They were often not given the same kind of pain management that white patients would have gotten and they died more often of diseases. – Rebecca Skloot
Atheistic evolution isn’t an intelligent belief, as atheists would have the black community believe. – Ray Comfort