Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.
Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
It may be for 20 or 30 years no one has yet been able to decide the length of the life of the black bass.
I'm trying to incorporate colour into my life. Until recently, everything in my closet was black, white, grey, navy or olive.
Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.
I think everybody has the ability to fall in love with a man or with a woman or a white person or a black person or a Jewish person or a Protestant person or whatever.
I love black diamonds. They say your watch or jewelry wasn't cheap, but they aren't too flashy and in your face.
Where today people surf the Web and check their e-mail on their cell phones, tomorrow they will be checking their vital signs.
The ability to diagnose an imminent heart attack has long been considered the holy grail of cardiovascular medicine.
It's nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager.
It's hard to be a breakout show and stay on top. We're like the flagship show over here.
I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more.
If Lady Gaga is like an orange Bugatti Veyron, then I am like a black 1970 Chevelle.
The dark clouds make the black sea. (Les nuages noirs - Font la mer noire)
We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable.
How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?
My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.
Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.
No one tells me what they think because they're either intimidated by me, or they don't want to upset me.
I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.
