The thing about post-traumatic stress disorder, we know about one in five, about 20 percent of individuals that are exposed to a direct traumatic stress will develop this disorder.
My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.
Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.
I've always taken pride to be the white guy that can talk to the black people, that can refer to them truly as a brother from a different mother.
We put stereotypes on ourselves. Everybody does that. But I think it's just a little harder for black kids to just be who they are.
You can't get much more liberal than John Kerry is. I mean, he's my candidate, but, I mean, come on.
More often than not, we think of ourselves as black, white, Asian, or Hispanic pretty much in this country, but the real America is much more than that.
I'm a gay black guy. If I can't ask questions without caring what people think of me, who can?
The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.
Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical.
In an exhibition wherein paintings of nudes were commonplace, that of Madame Gautreau in her black evening dress was considered scandalously erotic. -from The Greater Journey
I'm still heard on 1,500 radio stations across North America every day, about 220 million people a day in 150 countries.
We grew up in a very strange world, because my mother was up against it all when she had three black children.
The clothes chosen for me as a child had a strong element of the Pre-Raphaelite, muted greens and ivories, dusty rose, what seems in retrospect an eccentric amount of black.
I go to castings and see several black and Asian girls, then I get to the show and look around there's just me and maybe one other coloured face.
I look most like myself... when I'm wearing my black, nerdy engineering glasses.
It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word 'farm' or the word 'rural.'
I have been a bridesmaid. Fortunately, the outfits were pretty tame. They were cream and black, but I still wouldn't wear them out in public, though.
If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.
Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.
If you think black people have a motivation problem, open up a Wal-Mart and advertise a thousand jobs. Watch 5,000 people show up.
