The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.
The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.
Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
Just me existing, as an openly black transgender woman from a working-class background, thriving, is a political act. My brother always reminds me that if you are black in America and you're alive, you deserve a round of applause. There are so many forces that don't want us to be alive, and so just being openly who I am, and happy and thriving, is a political act.
There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard.
I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the wrench of transference from a happy home to a school.
Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.
And I'm sure than in Poland, or somewhere, it is considered cool to drive a Porsche and wear necklaces and black silk, but at least back in Brooklyn if you did those things you were either a drug dealer or from New Jersey.
Hollywood is designed to check the box office on Monday morning and see: "How'd we do? How much?" It's another facet of this whole culture of accumulation and consumption. Black people are caught up in it, white people are caught up in it, white actors, black actors, female actresses - everybody's caught up in it.
If (Black) is going for victory, he is practically forced to allow his opponent to get some kind of well-known positional advantage.
Look around at the azaleas making fuchsia star bursts in spring; look at a full moon hanging silver in a black sky on a cold night. And realize that life is glorious, and that you have no business taking it for granted.
When you have a small town where all of a sudden there's 3,000 black people living in a neighborhood where there were never black people before, that's a dramatic change. I'm not sure how much the people in the north are acknowledging that this is a permanent phenomenon, that it is going to change the social fabric.
Even the notion that, you know,[Bill] Clinton was the black president strikes me as the greatest irony of all times.
The good news for me is that I have an amazing team behind me, and they've been with me for 20 years now - almost 20 years. And they have seen me as an actress, not necessarily just a black actress. So I have been lucky enough for them to see me that way.
The greater the penalties laid on sellers in the black market. . . the higher the black market price.
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.
The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard.
If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist.