The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.
Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.
For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.
Every Iranian artist dreams of the black market. We don't care about making money.
I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.
I like smudgy black eyes and pale lips for evening. Red lipstick looks great on other girls, but it's too much on me.
I know what's good for me. I can't play black or gray. I can't be a villain or anything close to one. I have to play white.
As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Men often think it's the bad boys who get the hot chicks. But I'm living proof that the good guys win.
Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.
Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are.
But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
Earth to Democrats: Displaying contempt for the American people when you are being paid by those people to serve their interests is generally not a good political move.
A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'
I'm a sucker for good black skirts and pretty little shirts and kooky tops. I have to admit that shopping satisfies my craving for immediate gratification.
We are put on this earth to have a good time. This makes other people feel good. And the cycle continues.
We've begun to put fear into those whites who think they can do anything they want to a black person and get away with it.
Anxiety is not fear, exactly, because fear is focused on something right in front of you - a real and objective danger.
That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.
We need a pedagogy free from fear and focused on the magic of children's innate quest for information and understanding.
