I've got a Ferrari 430. It's black. I don't know what it cost but it wasn't cheap. I bought it because I was being a boy. It's fast and looks good.
When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it.
If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.
I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree.
I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character.
I couldn't wait to be, you know, a Black Panther. Of course they wouldn't let me join.
I made up my mind that I was going to be just like Elvis. It never occurred to me that Elvis was a man. I just wanted to be him. He had a huge impact on me, right down to that black leather jumpsuit he wore on the '68 Comeback Special.
There are very few really stark black and white stories.
I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.
High blood pressure is a major health crisis in the black community.
I don't think there are enough stories told about black men and their relationships and how they build and bond with one another.
Michael Brown happened to be black. Trayvon Martin happened to be black. Eric Garner was a black man. So this pattern continues over and over.
In my Philly neighborhood, black and white kids hung together without even thinking about it. The spirit of Martin Luther King was alive and well.
The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.
Liberals believe they own the franchise on minorities and can't stand any Hispanic or black who breaks rank.
It's really easy to get colors right. It's really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but it's also an illusion.
We need to hire more black police officers in this country because these are good jobs, and African Americans should have their fair share of good jobs. But we shouldn't do it because we think that's going to change policing. We have to push for police reform in other ways.
To this day, the only argument against Obama that critics can seem to come up with involves admitting he's better than them - though they certainly season it with some racism. You know, he's that lucky black man who actually appeals to the populace. He's that elitist who got himself off food stamps and into Harvard.
I was mostly influenced by bands like Black Sabbath and Judas Priest - Metallica's 'Kill 'Em All' was also a hell of an inspiration.
Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.
Who doesn't like to play Black Sabbath tunes!
I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos.
I think that it's hard enough being an adolescent and wanting so much to fit in with your peers, your schoolmates, and to erase any sign of difference, to be part of the group. And being biracial but also being black in a predominately white school marked me as different.
Black Lives Matter is the culmination of racial divide. They're nothing more than the last socially acceptable hate group in America.
I would try to write 'realistic' fiction, and someone would fly, or there would be a black hole full of demons or a girl who attracted frogs.
My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, caught between two communities.
So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities.
The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white.
Typically, there's this perspective among writers - and black writers: there's this idea that there is one person - and maybe beyond writers - among blacks, there is always one person who everyone should go to learn about all things black.
I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it.
When you're a large black man in Hollywood, the obvious stereotype is one of force and menace.
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.
Poitier opened the doors to so many artists, not just black artists. There is a line that goes from black to Latin to Asian with regards to roles.
I'm not a predictable black liberal.
I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike a color film.
