I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good.
The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad.
But Bill Clinton had the good taste to lie about his sexual peccadillos. He had the honor and the decency to want to cover it up.
I've never drunk coffee. I'm convinced it has something to do with why my skin is good. I have either mint, green or black tea.
It doesn't matter if it's black-and-white. If a movie has a story that is filled with emotion, you can have as much pleasure, and it's very good for cinema.
For those of us in the financial world, Black Friday has a strong negative connotation, referring to a stock market catastrophe.
Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don't live angry, let go now!
I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.
I have a little mantra: 'My fear grows fat on the energy I feed it. And if it grows very big, it probably happens.'
I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.
Faith is a personal matter, and should never be a cudgel to stifle inquiry. We tried that approach about 1,200 years ago. The experiment was called the Dark Ages.
My husband was very special and very funny and outspoken, and he would have a black and blue every so often because under the table, I'd say, 'Don't say that!'
Being a black woman, there's so many different sides of us. We are funny, silly, romantic, professional, smart, and we have good jobs.
Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.
If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.
Our people are ebbing away like a rapidly receding tide that will never return. The white man's God cannot love our people, or He would protect them.
Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.
I'm not that interested in fashion... When someone says that lime-green is the new black for this season, you just want to tell them to get a life.
In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.'
I have reached a state in life where I can buy a whole house full of chairs and can bump into them until they are black and blue.
If you walk through life in a fighting pose with your fists balled up and ready to strike, someone, someday, somewhere, is going to want to test your mettle.
