I think it's because it was an emotional story, and emotions come through much stronger in black and white. Colour is distracting in a way, it pleases the eye but it doesn't necessarily reach the heart.
There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're black.
There's already been black presidents who've been corrupt, so it doesn't strike me that having a black man in office means he's going to be the Messiah.
I'm a vagabond. I live out of one suitcase. I feel very comfortable in black. I feel very uncomfortable in anything else than black.
When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.
People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.
When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?
A 'black' man who draws a 'black' person with big lips is called observant. A 'white' man who does the same is called a racist.
The Beatles were no trouble... lots of girls. The Stones were black-jacketed guys, a rough crowd. A whole different scene between the Stones' black leather jackets and the Beatles' pretty-dressed girls with the ribbons in their hair, teenagers standi...
I did have fun, for example, in The Black Hole which was very popular among youngsters.
The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed.
One puts on black robes to scare the hell out of white people, while the other puts on white robes to scare the hell out of blacks.
Let's say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride.
I once had an extraordinary experience with former prime minister Ted Heath. Both of his eyes, including the whites, turned jet black, and I seemed to be looking into two black holes.
I think things like food, the food of the south is sort of the common tie that binds us all, Black and White, the sense memories. It's a very particular part of the country.
Mr. Cosby wanted to do a show not about an upper-middle-class black family, but an upper-middle-class family that happened to be black. Though it sounds like semantics, they're very different approaches.
A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.
At pivotal moments throughout history, there have always been grey areas, and there likely will be in the future. Courage now lies not in the black and white, as in the past, but in the grey.
I think our biggest problem is lack of real, honest communication between black men and black women. A lot of men talk amongst men, and a lot of women speak amongst women.
I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.
