The plate tectonics of media have shifted where NBC had to become a new media company from an old media company.
I grew up in a neighborhood with blacks and Puerto Ricans and Italians, the whole gamut, so conveying unity has always meant a lot to me.
It's barely OK for me to be dressed up as a black guy. But part of me kind of enjoys provoking people.
I want to be the voice of the people; black, white, everyday, oppressed people. A person trying to make it and to do it right.
The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.
I'm light skinned, and I used to lean on that because that's something a lot of black people pride themselves on, and it's weird.
Working on a green screen set, yeah, it's almost like reading from a novel, taking those black words and creating a world around you.
Black Bolt is typically a stoic leader, part of a larger cast of Inhumans who get their hands dirty in ways that he doesn't.
Hey, I was lucky twice. I know it's three strikes and you're out. I don't think of myself as being invincible anymore.
The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.
America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.
I'm not a big eye makeup girl unless there's a professional doing it - otherwise I look like I have two black eyes!
People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfeld next to me.
In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.
I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel their presence as one person.
I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.
In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ranges.
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.
I earned a black belt when I was in high school. And I did a lot of boxing and full contact karate in college.
The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.
