While I encourage people to save 100% down for a home, a mortgage is the one debt that I don't frown upon.
The silver and black may have another home, but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles.
I don't display my plaques and honors. They are hidden behind a black curtain in my work room at home.
Muslim delegates concerned about rights in Palestine could have brought their enthusiasm closer to home by addressing the fate of black Christians being slaughtered and enslaved in the Sudan.
'Gods of Wheat Street' has been described as an Aboriginal 'Neighbours' or 'Home and Away.' But on set, we were calling it 'Black to the Rafters.'
The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.
I wasn't shy, but I was really hyper. Nobody got my sense of humor. I was a black skater kid.
In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable.
Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature.
My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.
My worldview comes from a collection of the books I have read, the people I have met, and my conversations with my dad.
I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.
I'm black. I'm Latina. My mom is Cuban. Afro-Cuban. My dad is white and Australian.
Nobody has said to men, 'It is OK if you want to be a full-time dad; find a woman who will support you.'
True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity - or political ideology.
It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.
The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred some great performers.
The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day.
I always wear beige, black or white. For one thing I look good in them. For another, when I'm beside a star at a fitting, and she looks into the mirror, I don't want to be competing in any way.
