If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then it's all for nothing.
Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.
Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.
Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.
I'm working on a second cookbook and am working on my love story, 'Black Heels to Tractor Wheels.'
Motown was about music for all people - white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.
Quite frankly, I've always listened to the black side of the radio dial. Where I grew up, there was a lot of it and there was a lot of live music around.
Napster was a black market for music. Ninety-nine per cent of the music that people were downloading was illegal because they didn't have the rights for it.
Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.
That's because we did not set out to make black music. We set out to make quality music that everyone could enjoy and listen to.
Landing on 'Morning Joe' wasn't a fluke. I was a poli sci major in college. I interned at the CBS political unit, covered conventions.
From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work.
So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding.
When men hold the greater majority of all professional positions of power, it is impossible for a woman to advance her career without the support of men.
The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.
My husband and I are writers, and I wish I could write faster. There are not a lot of movies made with black actors in mind.
Struecker: It's what you do right now that makes a difference.
Pilot: Mike Durant, we won't leave you behind.
[deleted scene] Kowalewski: Beautiful day to fight.
Thomas Leroy: The only person standing in your way is you.
Thomas Leroy: That was me seducing you. It needs to be the other way around.
