This is Sailor Supergirl,” George says. “She knows all about black holes.
How old are you?” “Old enough to know better, but still young enough to do it again.
I don't believe there's two sides to every story. It's black and white. There's right and wrong.
Juggling is very, very straightforward; very, very black and white; you're manipulating objects, not people. And that's always appealed to me.
What does it mean to be too black for Hollywood? It's self-explanatory. Hollywood has certain kinds of blacks that they like.
Any successful black person will have to face suspicion within his or her own community about his or her loyalty to other blacks.
It's a pity that nobody has found an exploding black hole. If they had, I would have won a Nobel prize.
When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.
Relations between black and white would be greatly improved if we were more accepting of our fears and our feelings and more vocal about it.
I think it's because it was an emotional story, and emotions come through much stronger in black and white. Colour is distracting in a way, it pleases the eye but it doesn't necessarily reach the heart.
There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're black.
There's already been black presidents who've been corrupt, so it doesn't strike me that having a black man in office means he's going to be the Messiah.
I'm a vagabond. I live out of one suitcase. I feel very comfortable in black. I feel very uncomfortable in anything else than black.
When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.
People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.
When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?
A 'black' man who draws a 'black' person with big lips is called observant. A 'white' man who does the same is called a racist.
The Beatles were no trouble... lots of girls. The Stones were black-jacketed guys, a rough crowd. A whole different scene between the Stones' black leather jackets and the Beatles' pretty-dressed girls with the ribbons in their hair, teenagers standi...
I did have fun, for example, in The Black Hole which was very popular among youngsters.
The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed.
