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  • I wanted to make sure the focus [in The Land] was on human beings themselves and their decisions, but still connected to the urban environment that people associate as being black. I think I was able to make a film without commenting on "black this or black that" and you still feel the presence of it. There's no one character who's saying "we're all black and we're all in this struggle." It's that you just feel it. Some of that is because we get the sense from a lot of independent films that black people struggle all the time.

    Source: www.rogerebert.com
  • I'm against an all-white anything or an all-black anything.

    White   Black   All Black  
  • I grew during segregation in an all-black segregated neighborhood with segregated schools, etcetera. I was raised by a great father, my hero, who I much admired. So, I never really had anxiety in the way that someone like Obama would have. When he walks down the street alone, since no one knows who his mother is, they're just going to see him as a black guy.

    Mother   Father   Hero  
    "Shelby Steele: The Why Obama Can’t Win Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. February 27, 2008.
  • Traditionally, I have no right to talk about race. I'm white; I didn't grow up in an all-black neighborhood. But the license I see for myself is I'm a member of the world.

    Growing Up   Race   White  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I don't like the fact that most black people or black comedians have to present themselves in a flamboyant way. It's good if you can do that, but I don't like to think that's the way all black comedians are. I'm not that type.

    Thinking   People   Black  
  • Race means family and all black people whether they like it or not, are family.

    Mean   Race   People  
  • I carry a knife now because I read in a white magazine that all black people carry knives. So I rushed out and bought me one.

    Knives   White   People  
  • A bear! A bear! All black and brown and covered in hair!

    Hair   Black   Bears  
    George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Storm of Swords: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Three”, p.103, Bantam
  • It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.

    Funny   Beautiful   Hair  
  • But nothing is all black in nature.

  • Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process--it is, after all, black magic.

    Creative   Black   Magic  
    Edward Albee (2009). “Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee”, p.165, Da Capo Press
  • I mean my goal is to get Michael Richards to do stand up at the Laugh Factory to an all black audience.

    Mean   Goal   Laughing  
    "Byt Interview: Daniel Tosh". brightestyoungthings.com. November 4, 2010.
  • When the American people saw the LA riots and crowds of Blacks cheering O.J. Simpson (who was acquitted by the almost all Black jury), they received a peek into their future.

  • Mother loathed the all-black B movies Hollywood made for the "colored" audience, where the stereotypes were broader and more offensive to her, and where the musical interludes did no justice to real talent, she said, but trivialized it.

    Mother   Real   Justice  
    Gayle Pemberton (1998). “The Hottest Water in Chicago: Notes of a Native Daughter”, p.41, Wesleyan University Press
  • We're ready for a real black President - someone like Jay-Z. Obama's fine, just not all black. He's our gateway Negro.

    Real   Black   President  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy - but mysterious. [...] But above all black says this: 'I don't bother you - don't bother me'

    Fashion   Lazy   Black  
    "Fashion's Poet of Black : YAMAMOTO" by Suzy Menkes, www.nytimes.com. September 5, 2000.
  • 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.

    Men   Jeans   White  
  • When I was younger, living in an all-black neighborhood the other kids thought I was better than them because of my light skin and straight hair. Then we moved to an all-white neighborhood and that was a culture shock ... I'd been used to being around all black kids.

    Kids   White   Light  
  • Can't be all men, can't be all white, can't be all black, can't be all straight. [It has] got to be a wide range of people. Can't be all people of one faith group. We need diversity so we can have the views of all Americans reflected in congressional outcomes.

    Men   Views   White  
    Source: harvardpolitics.com
  • To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. To impose on them a wretched life of huger and deprivation is to dehumanize them. But such has been the terrible fate of all black persons in our country under the system of apartheid.

  • If you think about black art, all black art, whether it's Invisible Man or whether it's James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Zora Hurston, or Richard Wright, they all deal with elements of identity and trying to humanize our experience and our struggle in the world where people have been indifferent to who we are and what we are. It's basically just saying that our lives have meaning.

    Art   Struggle   Men  
    Source: deadline.com
  • I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all.

    Life   Eye   Soul  
    Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.153, Feminist Press at CUNY
  • When the Lord's white sheep become dirty gray, all black sheep feel more comfortable.

    Christian   Dirty   Sheep  
  • All black people who are even minimally conscious, black people who have ever experienced Europe's technological power crusading in the vanguard of a civilizing mission, have profound feelings of inferiority and bitterly regret the fact that the Industrial Revolution did not agreeably commence in Dahomey or Dakar. Nothing is achieved by concealing this fact.

    Regret   Europe   People  
  • We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.

    School   White   People  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Any style that Nike makes in all black, shoe, sweatshirt, onesie, doesn't matter, I pretty much need to have.

    Nike   Fashion   Shoes  
  • Preaching styles and people being slain in the spirit and things like that. Now it doesn't happen in all black churches, and it happens sometimes in white churches, right? But on average they're quite a bit different.

    Average   White   People  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • What are letters?” “Kinda like mediaglyphics except they’re all black, and they’re tiny, they don’t move, they’re old and boring and really hard to read. But you can use ’em to make short words for long words.

    Moving   Long   Black  
    Neal Stephenson (2003). “The Diamond Age”, p.46, Spectra
  • There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.

    Perfect   People   Black  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, firemen's fairs, policemen's balls, in front of supermarkets, bar mitzvahs, weddings, drive-in theaters. I'd seen it all before I ever walked into a recording studio.

    White   Black   Bars  
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