The problem is that television executives have got it into their heads that if one presenter on a show is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed heterosexual boy, the other must be a black Muslim lesbian. – Jeremy Clarkson
I think I look better in darker clothes. And maybe the fact that I wear black so much makes me more aware of putting people at ease. – Joan Jett
I’ve always been a tomboy. I’ve always liked to wear red, black, and white, and mostly pants. – Janet Jackson
If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves. – Jupiter Hammon
I just start with a pencil and paper. I don’t want something too trendy, too fashion-forward. I don’t want to make something I consider a regular person couldn’t wear with blue jeans. But I don’t want to make something that other people make, either – like a skinny black suit in a shiny material that you can buy anywhere. – John Malkovich
When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go. – Jackie Robinson
If you are going to call a film a ‘black film’ then you have to make a film that represents everyone that’s black, which is almost impossible. That is why white films are not called white films, they are just called ‘films.’ – Idris Elba
If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain’t no hospital going to lock him out. – Jesse Jackson
I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima. – J. B. Smoove
I’d rather a young black actor read about success as opposed to how tough it was. I get these roles because I can act and that’s it. Hopefully that’s it. – Idris Elba
I hitchhiked to Miami in 1953, and there were oranges laying on the road, black shantytowns, and marinas with nice boats. The museums were virtually empty. – James Rosenquist
It’s amazing that people still feel, ‘Oh my gosh, it’s a black guy.’ We’ve been here for a long time; let’s get used to it. Let’s get used to other cultures. – John Boyega
Yes, ‘Black Girl/White Girl’ might be described as a ‘coming-of-age’ novel, at least for the survivor Genna. It is also intended as a comment on race relations in America more generally: we are ‘roommates’ with one another, but how well do we know one another? – Joyce Carol Oates
The fact that we elected Obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the blues and so much of the music I have loved can triumph. – Jack White
What I want to do is play roles as a black man, instead of playing black man’s roles. You know? – Jim Brown
My essentials are skinny jeans, loose-fitting tees, big jumpers, and the leather jacket. Everything is black or blue – I don’t own anything colorful. – Jamie Campbell Bower
The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn’t see many paintings with black people in them. – Jean-Michel Basquiat
If the KKK was smart enough, they would’ve created gangsta rap because it’s such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity. – Jackson Katz
I’m of African descent and my sister looks completely black, but I didn’t look black. I was the super-nerdy kid who was also willing to fight. – Junot Diaz
I’d like to make one thing very clear: Muhammad Ali loved people, and he had white friend as well as black friends – and the only thing that he hated was discrimination and racism. – Jim Brown
I’m lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal. Touch my skin to keep me whole. If only you’d come back to me. To feel you at my side, wouldn’t need no Mojo Pin to keep me satisfied. – Jeff Buckley
I love good old-fashioned black or white Converse. I have a few pairs. And they are all really dirty. I can’t have clean Converse – I go in the dirt and run around! – Ashley Benson
Economically, ISIS is making money every day on the black market with their oil fields. But they are also putting money in banks. We know where those banks are. We should go after the banks and the facilitators using them. – Jack Keane
When I saw Adele, I thought: ‘I’ll give it an hour before people say I was her,’ just because I was fat. When you watch ‘X Factor,’ you can bet your bottom dollar, every single fat singer sounds like me as far as the judges are concerned. Can you imagine if they did that with every black artist? – Alison Moyet
Actually I don’t remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs. – Jim Morrison