You never cash out a 401(k) or IRA to pay off debt, unless it's to avoid a foreclosure or bankruptcy.
the black man today will only find solitude in one place: prison. ironically, he becomes most free while incarcerated.
My role is to embody the Black Opium woman - I suppose you have to be the living embodiment of all the intangible things the brand stands for.
Nobody cares about your wardrobe, what your tie looks like, or even if you're wearing one, and I don't.
In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.
If you are still alive when you read this, close your eyes. I am under their lids, growing black.
If they had not murdered Malcolm X, there probably never would have been a Black Panther Party.
I'm sure people are shocked when they see a guy speeding and cutting them off and having road rage while in a Prius.
I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.
The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.
They call me racist too just because I disagree with a President who happens to be black. You are not racists - you are patriots.
Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.
Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.
I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.
I talk to millions of people every day. I just like it when they can't talk back.
But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do.
He will bring us all, rich and poor, white and black, to his judgment seat.
You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.
I grew up in a very bohemian environment in southern Sweden, so I was always, always, always in black jeans.
I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody.
Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.
