Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were previously. It use to be possible to go to the bar on the corner and hear music. It was available for a fifteen cent beer.
Reggae music don't really focus on one thing, you know. If reggae music is speaking about the struggle of people, and the suffering, it don't mean black people. It mean people in general.
One motivation for the 'Soul Train' awards was the grumbling that all of us in the industry have heard about the way black music tends to be viewed as a secondary phenomenon by the other awards shows.
And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud.
The white men of the South had better make up their minds that the blacks will remain in the South just as long as corn will tassel and cotton will bloom into whiteness.
What really matters is that 'Black Swan' deploys and exaggerates all the cliches of earlier ballet movies, especially 'The Red Shoes,' another tale of a ballerina driven mad and suicidal.
Pilla: Colonel, they're shooting at us! Colonel, they're shooting at us! McKnight: Well shoot back!
Eversmann: Nobody asks to be a hero, it just sometimes turns out that way.
McKnight: [while the convoy is under heavy fire going through a raided street] Motherfuckers! Motherfuckers!
[last lines] Thomas Leroy: Nina, what did you do? Nina: I felt it. Perfect. I was perfect.
Nina: [on the phone] He picked me, mommy! I'm the new swan queen!
Nina: Should I go again? Thomas Leroy: No thanks Nina! I've seen enough.
Sean Tuohy: Who would've thought we'd have a black son before we met a Democrat?
I feel like decades ago it was either you're black, white, Asian or Hispanic, or whatever, but today we see more of an acceptance for people with multi-nationalities.
For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.
I have friends who are black whose families opened their arms to them when they came out; I have friends who were white where they were rejected.
Being the person I am, you know, the size I am, being a woman, being a black woman, there's not a lot of roles for us.
There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1) sex sells; 2) if it bleeds it leads.
Slavery didn't break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
I wish I had said 'some athletes here are competing unfairly.' It was my opinion, never an accusation.
I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you're gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I don't believe that anymore.
