The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them.
Envy isn’t always green; it’s often black and white!" (On book reviews - from an article written in 2013)
Choices of right or wrong are not presented to you in black and white. If they were, I'm sure most people would choose white.
One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses.
After 27 years, I walked out of my first one a few months ago. Black Sheep with Chris Farley.
The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.
In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes you white.
Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same.
They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black.
Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.
Putting labels on others creates a black hole of disregard where judgment thrives and schisms deepen.
Black and white thinking limits understanding and feedback, two necessary ingredients for successful resolution in creative conflict and successful understanding.
In my Philly neighborhood, black and white kids hung together without even thinking about it. The spirit of Martin Luther King was alive and well.
I watch these old films in black and white, and suddenly the door opens, and there I am. The other day, I was wearing the most awful hat.
If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.
I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike a color film.
A big misconception is that a black hole is made of matter that has just been compacted to a very small size. That's not true. A black hole is made from warped space and time.
Jack Sparrow: A wedding? I love weddings. Drinks all around!
Jack Sparrow: Any man who falls behind, is left behind.
Anamaria: You're daft, lady! You both are! Mr. Gibbs: Daft like Jack.
