For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.
I have friends who are black whose families opened their arms to them when they came out; I have friends who were white where they were rejected.
Being the person I am, you know, the size I am, being a woman, being a black woman, there's not a lot of roles for us.
There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1) sex sells; 2) if it bleeds it leads.
Slavery didn't break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
I wish I had said 'some athletes here are competing unfairly.' It was my opinion, never an accusation.
I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you're gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I don't believe that anymore.
There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.
The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics.
I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.
In the black culture, certain kids are given nicknames that they roll with forever; the nicknames outweigh their real names. I'm one of those scenarios.
Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.
Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
As a black actor, you always have the feeling that there's not as much work out there as for a white counterpart, but is America after all; you have to play ball if you're going to play ball.
Because I was aspirational, I did my work, I was respectful to my teachers, I experienced a lot of bullying from the black kids. My friends were largely white or Asian.
It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and female authors are ghetto-ized as 'other.'
If you only have work clothes - the black trouser and ribbed turtleneck you got four years ago at the Gap - you're not participating in your own style personality.
I think that in many ways, gays are behind women and behind blacks, as far as rights go. But I always say, if you know one of us, it's hard to hate us.
I couldn't get to sleep. The book lay nearby. A thin object on the divan. So strange. Between two cardboard covers were noises, doors, howls, horses, people. All side by side, pressed tightly against one another. Boiled down to little black marks. Ha...
It was getting dark by the time I went out, and nobody who knows the country will need to be told how black is the darkness of a November night under high laurel bushes and yew-trees. I walked into the heart of the shrubberies two or three times, not...
