Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are.
Denzel Washington

I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.
Carl Sandburg

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
Carl Sandburg

A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.
Thurgood Marshall

Relations between black and white would be greatly improved if we were more accepting of our fears and our feelings and more vocal about it.
Sarah Silverman

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

I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.
Huey Newton

Black man, you are on your own.
Steven Biko

A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much.
Chuck D.

I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.
Bell Hooks

No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.
bell hooks

What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.
bell hooks

The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.
James Baldwin

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.
David Foster Wallace

It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater.
Alvin Ailey

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

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

No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.
Toni Morrison

A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people.
Toni Morrison