As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
Maya Angelou

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.
Barack Obama

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
Vince Lombardi

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
Muhammad Ali

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.
Muhammad Ali

I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.
Michael Jordan

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
Nelson Mandela

I wasn't always black... there was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.
Bill Cosby

It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.
Bill Cosby

Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.
Steven Wright

Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.
Mae West

Any colour - so long as it's black.
Henry Ford

I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side.I stand for God's side.
Bob Marley

Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.
Bob Marley

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.
Groucho Marx

Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.
Jim Morrison

I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.
Michael Jackson

Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.
Samuel Goldwyn

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'
Colin Powell

I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.
Malcolm X