All Quotes

'Black Mirror,' I read that, and I had another offer for a movie at the same time that was a bigger movie, an actual film as opposed to TV, but I said, 'No, it has to be Black Mirror.' And it hadn't been sold to Netflix, hadn't gone abroad at that point - but it's just good work - that's all there is to it.
‐‐ Domhnall Gleeson

Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were previously. It use to be possible to go to the bar on the corner and hear music. It was available for a fifteen cent beer.
‐‐ Archie Shepp

Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach into myself and accept myself.
‐‐ Michael Bolton

Black music is too big and too powerful not to have its own awards show.
‐‐ Don Cornelius

Black-on-black crime is a massive human rights issue that's going on in America.
‐‐ Ryan Coogler

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are.
‐‐ Denzel Washington

Black patients were treated much later in their disease process. They were often not given the same kind of pain management that white patients would have gotten and they died more often of diseases.
‐‐ Rebecca Skloot

Black people are inferior to Caucasians. Blacks constitute a totally distinct group; they overshadow the country with the germ... of evil.
‐‐ David Wilmot

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.
‐‐ Toni Morrison

Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.
‐‐ Kanye West

Black people cannot look to government to solve their problems.
‐‐ Shawn Amos

Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs... I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

Black people dance well because we start early - there's music being played everywhere. White people? They don't start dancing until they get to college, and by then, it's too late; the bottom don't move with the top no matter how hard they try.
‐‐ Tracy Morgan

Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four.
‐‐ Chris Rock

Black people don't even question things any more, they simply follow the lead.
‐‐ Tim Reid

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.
‐‐ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Black people don't know what white people are talking about when they talk about a Sister Souljah moment. I tell them it's the moment you meet a proud, beautiful black woman you can never forget.
‐‐ Sister Souljah

Black people don't talk about diabetes that much. I never knew anything. I thought everyone had an uncle with a leg cut off!
‐‐ Sherri Shepherd

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
‐‐ Toni Morrison

Black people have been qualified to be president for hundreds of years. George Washington Carver could have been president. I could go on with a list of black men that were qualified to be the president of the United States. So the Obama victory is progress for white people.
‐‐ Chris Rock

Black people have been working hard for decades.
‐‐ Cornel West

Black people have, like, this thing, and I have it, we all have it, we have this kind of embarrassment. Where we don't like white people to find out our little insecurities and out little quirks. We don't really like that that much. It's kind of, we're like, 'Don't let them know - that ours; that's for us.'
‐‐ Michael Che

Black people lived right by the railroad tracks, and the train would shake their houses at night. I would hear it as a boy, and I thought: I'm gonna make a song that sounds like that.
‐‐ Little Richard

Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
‐‐ H. Rap Brown

Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their alienation. This museum has certainly stood for that in this town.
‐‐ Katherine Dunham

Black people, we are not this monolithic group, you know?
‐‐ Joy Bryant

Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
‐‐ LaToya Jackson

Black players had an issue with Joe Torre. They weren't treated like everybody else. Even I got called out in a couple of meetings that I thought was unfair.
‐‐ Gary Sheffield

Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.
‐‐ Stokely Carmichael

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.
‐‐ Huey Newton

Black Power was really a major challenge to the social privileges and structures of the kind of privilege that I had grown up with. That whole belief... that you will only be able to advance if you are perfectly behaved, if you present yourself as what white people would consider an ideal of whiteness... all of that just began to burst open.
‐‐ Margo Jefferson

Black prophetic fire is the hypersensitivity to the suffering of others that generates a righteous indignation that results in the willingness to live and die for freedom.
‐‐ Cornel West

Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.
‐‐ Julian Bond

Black Rock gives us all a chance to heal, to become ourselves.
‐‐ Larry Harvey

Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.
‐‐ Eddie Trunk

Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and we just did it.
‐‐ Geezer Butler

Black Saturday reminded many Australians of what they know only too well: that of all the advanced economies, Australia is perhaps the one most vulnerable to climate change.
‐‐ Richard Flanagan

'Black Swan' does what Hollywood movies have always done - it spends its energies on getting some surface things right while getting everything important wrong. Darren Aronofsky, the director, applies the same techniques and the same sensibility here as he did with 'The Wrestler,' only with a prettier protagonist.
‐‐ Robert Gottlieb

'Black Swan' was absolutely unbelievable. I had always dreamed of working with Darren Aronofsky, and Natalie Portman, Winona Ryder, Barbara Hershey, Mila Kunis and Vincent Cassel. The entire cast was really a dream cast, and it was amazing to work with these powerhouse women that I've just admired for so many years.
‐‐ Ksenia Solo

Black unemployment is twice white unemployment and has been for decade after decade.
‐‐ Rand Paul

Black was not the universal hue of mourning in Europe. In Castile, white obtained on the death of its princes.
‐‐ Sabine Baring-Gould

Black, white, rural, urban, Democrat, Republican, independent. People who come from both ends of the socio-economic spectrum. Male, female. Young and old alike. This is our Kentucky.
‐‐ Matt Bevin

Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.
‐‐ Buchi Emecheta

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.
‐‐ Audre Lorde

Black women are supposed to be 'strong,' but the burden of carrying our race and carrying our families adds the pressure.
‐‐ Aunjanue Ellis

Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth.
‐‐ Dr. Dre

Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
‐‐ Barbara Smith

Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies.
‐‐ Tyra Banks

Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?
‐‐ Tyra Banks

Black women know that we've got to take care of it - so we take care of it. It's just embedded in us.
‐‐ Loni Love