Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives.
So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out.
As far as diversity's concerned, there's me, there's Al Madrigal, there's Aasif Mandvi. But I'm not walking around feeling black all the time. That would stress me out.
Having a separate bathroom for the black domestic was just the way things were done. It had faded out in new homes by the time the '70s and '80s rolled up.
On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.
In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure and function because, ultimately, no one could explain how biological processes occurred.
A friend in the War Office warned me that I was in Kitchener's black books, and that orders had been given for my arrest next time I appeared in France.
I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
Sonny Black: How can John Wayne die? Lefty: Fuckin' Indians got him.
Forrest Gump: I'm sorry I had to fight in the middle of your Black Panther party.
Lord Voldemort: I need that prophecy. Sirius Black: You'll have to kill me. Lord Voldemort: Oh, I will.
Bellatrix Lestrange: [taunting Harry] I killed Sirius Black! [laughs] Bellatrix Lestrange: You coming to get me?
Colonel Oliver: [explaining why the world will not intervene] You're black. You're not even a nigger. You're an African.
Malcolm X: We had the best organization a black man's ever had. Niggers ruined it.
Buttercup: You mock my pain. Man in Black: Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
Maxim de Winter: Please promise me never to wear black satin or pearls... or to be 36 years old.
Mrs. de Winter: I wish I were a woman of 36, dressed in black satin with a string of pearls!
Crazy Lee: Well, how'd you like to kiss my sister's black cat's ass?
Any outfit that has to beg its listeners for money is an organization that has to constantly please its listeners or it will dry up and go away. It shouldn't work when you think about it.
Most of India's 300 odd news channels are making losses and are dependent on dubious cross holding, black money and dodgy private equity investors, both foreign and Indian.
For as long as the power of America's diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome.
