Die Wahrheit hat keinen Erfolg.
I suppose that I'm fairly comfortable with the clown hat on.
I'll talk about the Everglades at the drop of a hat.
I'm quite open to the fact that I might be a tinfoil-hat freak.
I may be the prat in the hat, that's cool, but I drive an Aston Martin DB5.
Johnny Caspar: What is this, the high hat?
I buy hats like women buy shoes. I have well over 150.
Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.
The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans.
If you remove Al Sharpton’s blackness, he disappears. He’s transparent. There’s nothing there because he bases his whole life on his blackness. Me, I’m a black man; but my blackness has submission to my Christianity.
After the Civil War, when blacks fought along whites to secure freedom for all, southern states enacted Black Codes, laws that restricted the civil rights and liberties of blacks. Central to the enforcement of these laws were the stiff penalties for ...
If Barack Obama now, or some black person in the future, should become president, neither Jesse Jackson nor Al Sharpton would be out of a job. A black president can't end black misery; a black president can't be a civil rights leader or primarily a c...
As a teenager, my blackness was also questioned by some of the life choices I made that weren't considered to be 'black' choices. For example, joining the swim team when it is a known fact that 'black folk don't swim'; or choosing to become a vegetar...
The establishment wonders why we can't get more of the black vote. It's because it's not doing the things necessary to establish a deeper relationship with the black community. Most black people don't think alike. Most black people just vote alike.
Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any ...
The black characters on TV are the sidekicks, or they're insignificant. You could put all the black sidekicks on one show, and it would be the most boring, one-dimensional show ever. Even look at the black women on 'Community' and 'Parks and Recreati...
When now we turn and look five miles above, there on the edge of town are five houses of prostitutes,—two of blacks and three of whites; and in one of the houses of the whites a worthless black boy was harbored too openly two years ago; so he was h...
Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance of race in America. Indeed, a primary function of any racial caste system is to define the meaning of race in...
Big Black Man: [Big Black has just been given a wad of cash by Scorpio] You want to go all the way? The Killer: Every penny's worth. Big Black Man: Relax. Take it easy. It's gonna be all right. [pulls on a pair of leather gloves and methodically beat...
To me, goth is like really hard black lipstick, black nails, black clothes.
One day, we will live in a world without salads. It is a dream I have.