I do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too, so you're right.
I am a huge fan of the Black woman. I never hesitate to recommend her when times are bad or things go wrong.
And then comes unhappiness, and one does not become unhappy either. One says, 'A black cloud passing. I am the witness, the watcher. '
I'm not that interested in fashion. . . When someone says that lime-green is the new black for this season, you just want to tell them to get a life.
I drive two black cars, I named em Malcolm X and Martin Luther.
Black men of Carthage, Ethiopia, of Timbuktu and Alexandria gave the likes of civilization to this world
There's a lot of difference between being well known and being notorious and the black paintings didn't make me well known - they made me notorious.
Why can't we have fine black restaurants with fine service by black people who always gave good service? Because we thought that is demeaning and it's not, it's a good living.
People make jokes about how black people are the first ones to be killed off.
When you have something in black and white, you can deal with it quicker.
I love a black wedding dress.
If there had never been the Great Migration there would never have been jazz, there would never have been Michelle Obama. A lot of amazing black people exist in this country because of the Great Migration. That's nation-building.
Certainly there is a depression I think a lot of Black folks are getting ready to have come January [2017] and that might be an interesting story to tell.
If you're a Black artist, you could paint a wall of smiley faces, and someone will still ask you, 'Why are you so angry?'
Too hard for MTV, not black enough for BET, just let me be.
Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
Always in the black spirituals there's that promise that things are going to be better, by and by.
Poetry is the plough that turns up time in such a way that the abyssal strata of time, its black earth, appear on the surface.
I listen to music mostly in the evening. I've come to love what is called world music, like the Zimbabwean Oliver Mtukudzi and the Colombian singer Marta Gomez. I also love the Irish folk singer Mary Black. Other favorites include Chet Baker, Eva Cassidy, and Billie Holiday.
Of my two `handicaps,' being female put more obstacles in my path than being black.