There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.
Toni Morrison

Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
Toni Morrison

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
Toni Morrison

It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.
Gary Oldman

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.
Andrew Johnson

A lot of people don't know that my father is black.
Ryan Giggs

We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.
Al Sharpton

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
Harrison Ford

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

When you don't work for a while, immediately you get a little black mark next to your name.
Lori Loughlin

The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.
Al Sharpton

If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
Al Sharpton

I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
Al Sharpton

There was nothing there but black water and American fire power.
James Stockdale

It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us.
Erykah Badu

Sure, I look like a white man. But my heart is as black as anyone's here.
George C. Wallace

My son don't have to say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud. He don't have to be called those crazy names.
James Brown

You would never expect a black woman to be the hero.
Sanaa Lathan

OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.
Maya Lin

It's possible and available to any artist to be himself or herself on their own terms, to be accepted and embraced by black people. You don't have to be a thug to get love from black people.
Mos Def