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As I've said repeatedly, Republicans are very good at describing things in black and white; Democrats are very good at describing the 11 shades of gray. - Joseph C. Wilson

I like smudgy black eyes and pale lips for evening. Red lipstick looks great on other girls, but it's too much on me. - Saffron Aldridge

I love my black hair, but some imes I'd like to be blond, but I don't think it suits Asian girl... What a pity! - Ming Xi

You have to beat your opponent, otherwise you get to walk home with a black eye and wounded pride. - Josh Barnett

When I was a player the mentality was black people would make good players but weren't captain material or managerial material. That stereotyping existed. - Chris Hughton

I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare. - Jackie Robinson

I think all in all, one thing a lot of plays seem to be saying is that we need to, as black Americans, to make a connection with our past in order to determine the kind of future we're going to have. In other words, we simply need to know who we are in relation to our historical presence in America. - August Wilson

I knew from experience at the Negro Ensemble Company that it wasn't until there was a place controlled by black artists... that Pulitzer Prize-winning work like 'Ceremonies in Dark Old Men' and 'A Soldier's Play' came to fruition. - Michael Schultz

I see music in colours. I love music that's black, pink, purple or red - but I hate music that's green, yellow or brown. - Charli XCX

Really, I think the extra layer of raising a son as a gay black man comes from trying to raise a son who doesn't subscribe to masculine stereotypes. - Karamo Brown

I do remember being teased by my cousins on my mom's side for not being black enough. And then I'd spend the summer with my dad and be sent to all white summer camps where I was 'that black girl.' - Lauren London

If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be. - Zakk Wylde

Another Black Label motto. That's what I think life is. It's just another bridge to cross. You ask no questions. Whatever work it is you gotta do, you gotta go over it, under it, through it, around it, to do it. - Zakk Wylde

The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house. - Al Sharpton

Black Lives Matter started from a post that I put on Facebook after the acquittal of George Zimmerman. I woke up in the middle of the night sobbing, just trying to process what had happened and wanting to find community around being in a lot of grief and having a lot of rage. - Alicia Garza

I'm not focused on radio or whether I'm going to get all the audiences... all I wanted were great songs that were universal to any listener - Black, White, Green, Yellow; any kind a age difference. - Ledisi

People think that everyone wears black in France; in fact they all wear grey. - Jean Paul Gaultier

When 'The Cosby Show' came out, and everyone was up in arms about 'The Cosby Show' and that it was reflecting a world that didn't exist - but I knew black doctors. And I knew black lawyers. And I knew families that, you know, had a mother and a father and kids that were well-behaved. - Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Black film,' that term allows studios to just marginalize a movie and say, 'We've made our black film. We've made our film with people of color in it,' as opposed to, 'I just feel like people of color should be in every genre.' - Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Out of Sight' is one of my favorite films ever. Love Steven Soderbergh. 'Goodfellas' was a huge influence on me in terms of the use of camera. 'Black Orpheus,' a beautiful love story that very few people actually have seen, and that was an influence on 'Beyond the Lights,' too, in terms of the look of the film. - Gina Prince-Bythewood

There is a perception within our community and the world that black people don't love each other. That we don't fight for each other. That perception is so dangerous. We need positive images to counter the negative portrayals we see every day. And positive doesn't mean perfect. Perfect is boring. - Gina Prince-Bythewood

Everyone has to go to a funeral at some time and you need to be dark and sombre, and in a black tie. - A. A. Gill

If I had a good scream, like Frank Black, I'd be doing punk music, 'cos I love that. - John Grant

I think the black community is no different from any other community. We need to take responsibility for how we live together. We need to be personally responsible for keeping our streets clean, our schools safe, and our houses peaceful. - Pearl Cleage

Remember that my view, the only true view I can see with, is through the black eyes that I have. - Chuck Berry

Black women have earned the right to be basic. - Natasha Rothwell

Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence. - Saul Williams

I'm black because that's the way the world sees me. - Paula Patton

The black community has been the foundation of the progressive community in this country for a long time. - Benjamin Todd Jealous

There's sort of a persistent misperception that talking about race is black folk's burden. Ultimately, only men can end sexism, and only white people can end racism. - Benjamin Todd Jealous

I grew up in Haughton, Louisiana. I go to my white grandparents' house, and then I cross the railroad tracks and hang out with my black grandma. We have English teachers on my white side. My grandpa is a principal. And then you go to the other side, and people have been in jail. - Dak Prescott

God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body. - Watkin Tudor Jones

I have to own the fact that I'm a black man - that's why I did 'Black Panther' and 'Widows' because if I play the industry game, I lose. - Daniel Kaluuya

There's a lot of black men running around with crazy trauma scars, and they should be going to therapy. They should be sitting down and talking to people. But they can't. If you've got the armor of being a man, and the armor of being a black man, that hyper-masculine thing can make those scars deeper. - Daniel Kaluuya

I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people. - Sidney Poitier

One thing I congratulate everyone on is the great explosion which has occurred in Washington's Black House and the very important scandal which has gripped leaders of America. - Ruhollah Khomeini

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride. - David Foster Wallace

I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white. - George R. R. Martin

I fully recognize and appreciate the many substantial contributions of black Americans and other minorities to the creation and preservation and development of our great nation. - Strom Thurmond

I'm a multi-racial person - I'm black and white - and growing up in North Carolina, I've dealt with a lot of racism. Growing up as a kid, I've seen it. I've been through it in many forms and fashions. - Jimmy Graham

I don't care if you're purple. If you're making a catch or going to go down, you could be silver. I couldn't care less, if you're making those plays for the team. If you're a selfless player, nobody pays attention to that at all. White, black, silver, pink, it doesn't matter to me. - Jimmy Graham

It's important to me that on 'Family Feud' I could kiss all the people. It sounds crazy but when I first came here Petula Clark was on a show with Nat King Cole and he kissed her on the cheek and eighty-one stations in the South canceled him. I kissed black women daily and nightly on 'Family Feud' and the world didn't come to an end, did it? - Richard Dawson

There has been the biggest black cloud following me around. People believe it's all my fault that Steve is not here. He has always had an open door, and he doesn't choose to do this any more. - Neal Schon

I want to be a great role model to let the kids, especially black kids, that it's possible to make it in this sport. I think we, as a black community, quit playing the game because we think it's a white man's sport. Or we think that since other black people don't play it, so why should I play it. - Mookie Betts

Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres. - Miguel

There were many times that I took such a big hit that I was dazed; I'm not going to lie. I'd see black, but I'm still looking for the puck. Where's the play going? I'm going to keep going. Same thing in figure skating. If I take a hard fall, I'm going to get up, and I'm going to do the next jump. - Max Aaron

Looking back on my 50-year eclectic journey in research, I am grateful that it has gone as well as it has, although still not clever enough to open the black box of enzyme structure. - Irwin Rose

In our world, 80 to 90 percent of women's weight gain comes from overindulging in insulin-stimulating food. And it's not hardcore, straight-up, I-can-see you-in-the-face sugar. They're eating whole-wheat bread. They're eating ancient grains. They're eating black beans. That stuff is horrible. - Jorge Cruise

I dug up some old John Buscema 'Conan' comics. Man, when Alfredo Alcala was inking, that was some of the most beautiful black and white comic art ever published. The stories are good, too, though early '70s comics based on Conan is a festival of sexist, racist stereotypes. - Ted Naifeh

Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa. - Bobby Fischer

If black lives mattered, I believe that policing and immigration enforcement would not be the devastating force that it is in our communities. - Opal Tometi

If I'm going to be the black designer, I'm going to tell it my way. - Kerby Jean-Raymond

For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression. - Gary Clark, Jr.

I love Monty Python, Black Adder, Fawlty Towers. I'm a huge fan of British comedy. - Isla Fisher

I've always said that the greatest racism in Hollywood has to do with what color ink you produce: Black or red. - Suzanne de Passe

For a black student to work in southwest Mississippi for example - or in the Delta in 1960, 1961, 1962 - was high-risk work. - John Doar

You never say, 'This white guy, that white guy.' But when it's a black guy, you have to say, 'This black guy.' - Demba Ba

Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of care where black women feel accountable to all the black community's children. - Patricia Hill Collins

At pivotal moments throughout history, there have always been grey areas, and there likely will be in the future. Courage now lies not in the black and white, as in the past, but in the grey. - Safak Pavey

Black Lives Matter and police brutality are issues that are important to me. - Jabari Parker

We've seen a lot of people come together, no matter the race, and have support of black people. I think that's a huge thing. I don't know if it's going to fix all our issues, but I think it's a step in the right direction. I go out and I've protested, I've marched. - Michael Carter-Williams

In the locker room, and when I'm with my friends, we use racial slurs... What I do with my black friends is not up to white America to dictate to me what's appropriate and inappropriate. - Charles Barkley

Some people feel that because you are black you will never be treated fairly, and that you should voice your opinions, be militant about them. I don't feel this way. You can't convince a fool against his will. - Ernie Banks

I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home. - Jackie Robinson

There's a place called Chipotle in the U.S. It's Mexican food where everything is made to order; you can get some rice, black beans, and meat. That's what I eat three times a day. - Cesaro

I suppose that I inherited the same vocabulary and world view as most black Christians do, most Christians in general, to be sure. It was heterosexist in the sense that it took the heterosexual orientation as the norm from which to start as the given. And everything that fell outside of that was not acceptable. - Michael Eric Dyson

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

For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people. - Linda Chavez

Liberals believe they own the franchise on minorities and can't stand any Hispanic or black who breaks rank. - Linda Chavez

Everything about us black people is complicated, us being here, being a minority, being a woman, all those things are complicated. - Nicole Beharie

There are expectations in how you play your character as a black woman, to be sassy and the same kind of feel, as if there are no quirky black women. I struggle with those things constantly, trying to add dimension to my work, and that's the goal, too. - Nicole Beharie

And then I went to visit my sister in the states and all of a sudden it was just like, it's like... it's like the movie Wizard of Oz when all of a sudden it changes from Black and White to glorious Technicolor. - John Mahoney

I hope that there's a little black boy somewhere in Montana that never thought that he would see a reflection of himself, and he turns on the television, like, 'Oh my God, thank you.' - Brian Tyree Henry

I started training in martial arts when I was 7 years old. I got my first black belt at 13. - Katheryn Winnick

I'm a 3rd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do and 2nd degree in karate, and I'm a licensed bodyguard. - Katheryn Winnick

If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black. - Mike Schmidt

As black folks we're always sensitive. As a black person it's always racial. - Jamie Foxx

Black holes provide theoreticians with an important theoretical laboratory to test ideas. Conditions within a black hole are so extreme, that by analyzing aspects of black holes we see space and time in an exotic environment, one that has shed important, and sometimes perplexing, new light on their fundamental nature. - Brian Greene

I'm a firm believer in karma. By doing good, good things eventually find you. I don't have an American Express Black Card, but I like to think that I would if I could fill it with karma points. - Chieh Huang

Within three months I had gone from being this black sheep of the town to suddenly becoming a pop star. - Alison Moyet

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

I think my performance in 'What's Love Got to Do With It' was powerful. I was so unafraid and confident. You know, it was the first mother of black Hollywood. I was Tina Turner's mama. That's what started it all. I had fallen in love right before that movie, and I had absolutely no fear in me. - Jenifer Lewis

What really matters is that 'Black Swan' deploys and exaggerates all the cliches of earlier ballet movies, especially 'The Red Shoes,' another tale of a ballerina driven mad and suicidal. - Robert Gottlieb

My work indicated that if we consider smaller and smaller black holes, at some stage, the properties of black holes become indistinguishable from those of elementary particles. - Ashoke Sen

My work on black holes was on the connection between black holes and elementary particles. - Ashoke Sen

We have to thank the members of the Romantic movement for the sober colours of suits. It was their love of the Gothic that put us in grey and black but the suit stuck. - A. A. Gill

I don't wanna be like somebody that just depicts black characters where drugs and guns are just a majority of what they have to do. - Y'lan Noel

I want to see more sci-fi with black people. - Y'lan Noel

The definition of gumbo is almost as slippery as that of Creole. Just as gumbo can contain pretty much any kind of meat or seafood, Creole is a vague and inclusive term for native New Orleanians, who may be black or white, depending on whom you're asking. - Jay McInerney

Faith is the black person's federal reserve system. - Hattie McDaniel

I read this book when I was young. It's about a black girl growing up in Heaven, Ohio. The cover has a black girl with clouds behind her. It was the first book cover I ever saw with a girl that looked like me. - Jamila Woods

I don't want to have people brought in simply because they are black or Asian. - Trevor Phillips

We need more male black teachers, tempting them with extra cash if necessary. - Trevor Phillips

The prison industrial system, things like that are cleverly put in place to attempt to marginalize a certain group of people - and it's not only black, it's replete across the American society. - Lakeith Stanfield

Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were previously. It use to be possible to go to the bar on the corner and hear music. It was available for a fifteen cent beer. - Archie Shepp

So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks to you organically. Rap grows out of what young people really are today, not only black youth, but white - everybody. - Archie Shepp

'Black Skinhead' almost got deaded because it was too much like a soccer song. - Mike Dean

When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game. - Fuzzy Zoeller

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