I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

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.

First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
Carlos Santana

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

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

We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
Nikki Giovanni

Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast.
Leonard Nimoy

What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering, black and white myth on a screen, it is a resonant story. I want the audience to recognize themselves in these men. They're not just mythic heroes.
Tom Hanks

You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last.
Ralph Abernathy

If you're black in this country, if you're a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican?
Cher

I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.
Ray Charles

But between sets I'd sneak over to the black places to hear blues musicians. It got to the point where I was making my living at white clubs and having my fun at the other places.
Stevie Ray Vaughan

I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish.
Billy Crystal

Who's the new Ramones, who's the new Guns 'N Roses, who's the new Motley Crue, who's the new Black Sabbath? They're coming, they're on the street, they're 16, 17 years old.
Nikki Sixx

Black culture is something I don't relate to much at all.
Dennis Rodman

Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
William S. Burroughs

I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.
Dennis Rodman