I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.
Hank Aaron

To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
Roald Dahl

Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies. Black men love big butts.
Tyra Banks

Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?
Tyra Banks

What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?
Desmond Tutu

That's how we do it in the black community; we give back to the people who made us who we are. We never forget that.
Snoop Dogg

George Bush doesn't care about black people.
Kanye West

If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.
Kanye West

If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.
Spike Lee

I think my work shows that I love women. I understand where these types of criticisms are coming from because black people have been so dogged out in the media, they're just extra sensitive.
Spike Lee

I always give the example, if you turn on the radio today, black radio, Lenny Kravitz is not black. Bob Marley wasn't black: in the beginning, only white college stations played Bob Marley.
Spike Lee

It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are.
Spike Lee

There's a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we've arrived where we need to be and nothing else needs to be done and affirmative action needs to be dismantled.
Spike Lee

Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.
Spike Lee

I'd like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy and cherish. Culture is for everybody.
Spike Lee

We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.
Saint Ignatius

It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.
Deng Xiaoping

The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work.
Richard Pryor

I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people.
Richard Pryor

You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.
Charles Barkley