All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.
Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this country: and in the future he will be so honored.
I don't do 'black music,' I don't do 'white music'...I make fight music, for high school kids.
There are not many males, black or white, who wish to get involved with a woman who's committed to her own development.
However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.
In the early days, we just wore black onstage. Very bold, my dear. Then we introduced white, for variety, and it simply grew and grew.
Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.
I lived in an all-black neighborhood, followed by an all-white one, and other kids in the always called me Mexican in both neighborhoods.
I wear white or pale-blue shirts and black knit ties: They don't draw attention to me in any kind of peacockish way.
White supremacy is a black person telling the people of Baltimore to chill out and try peace, thinking they came up with that thought all on their own.
To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
I've always been multi-cultural myself. I'm not black and I'm not white and I'm not pink and I'm not green. Eartha Kitt has no color, and that is how barriers are broken.
We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.
Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.
The first thing I do is take Polaroids of the sitter - 10 or 12 color Polaroids and eight or 10 black-and whites.
Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.
I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered.
Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.
I've always taken pride to be the white guy that can talk to the black people, that can refer to them truly as a brother from a different mother.
More often than not, we think of ourselves as black, white, Asian, or Hispanic pretty much in this country, but the real America is much more than that.
