Quotes of: Black-history Keyword

Even if it's a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.

Gary Owen

I always carry my classic black-and-white tux and custom-made George Esquivel saddle shoes.

Janelle Monae

Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.

John A. Powell

All my friends are dying. That's why I always wear black.

Joan Rivers

The pilots I did test for, I was the only black actor testing against white actors for parts that were written white.

J. August Richards

If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it.

J. M. W. Turner

The falsetto stuff, it must be a reaction to the black gospel singers that I really enjoy listening to.

Justin Vernon

I wanted to write about the experiences of the poor and the black and the rural people of the South.

Jesmyn Ward

Black people have been working hard for decades.

Cornel West

Blacks on prime-time TV are only portrayed as comedians - and often in no better a light than 'Amos & Andy.'

Don Cornelius

It would be extraordinary if the BBC were to make me the first black 'Doctor Who;' it would be extraordinary.

David Harewood

You can tell black artists are front and centre when Usher discovers and launches Justin Bieber.

Dan Hill

One thing that's coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing.

Dylan Moran

The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.

Julius Charles Hare

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

Jim Henson

I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.

Jesse Jackson

Repeat after me, Mr. Black: I do believe in commas. I do, I do.

Jaida Jones

In March of 1933 we witnessed a revolution in manner, in mores, in the definition of government. What before had been black or white sprang alive with color.

Emanuel Celler

I was very young at the time, and I mainly appreciated their vocal qualities, even though I was already living as they did - as black performers in a white world.

Bobby Short

It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because there is nothing to defend.

Kevin Eubanks

General relativity predicts that time ends inside black holes because the gravitational collapse squeezes matter to infinite density.

Lee Smolin