Famous Quotes & Sayings

What's important from our point of view is that those who participate in intercollegiate athletics, including black males, are doing better than their demographic cohort in the general student body.

Roxane Gay

We were the only black family in my neighborhood for many years. Wherever we lived, we were often the only black family, and certainly the only Haitian family. But my parents were really great at providing a loving home where we could feel safe and secure.

We've got the first generation of significantly educated people. There's a black middle class like never before.

We will mark February one as black day as press freedom was snatched and censorship was imposed on that day.

We will mark February 01 as black day as press freedom was snatched and censorship was imposed on that day.

When I went to the meeting, I saw white people, black people, people who weren't well-to-do and the wealthy. And they were all voicing their opinions.

Debra Lee

When I went to BET, I was so excited about working for a black-owned company and a company that was in the media business that serves the black community. One thing Harvard Law does is teach you that you can change the world, and I knew I wanted to do that, it was just a question of how.

We came down off our hill and looked towards St. Helens and saw this huge black cloud and thought it was a thunderstorm,

We buy Black Baldies, Red Baldies and Herefords.

We built the Model T; it was black and a lot of people bought it. But we found out not everybody wanted it.

Kevin McDonald

We of course had big plans to change everything because we wanted to be like a rock band, like the Black Crows, do a different set every night.

We walked around with black armbands for a short period of time. We regrouped.

We've worked hard to get the message out that Black History Month is something we can all celebrate and learn from. We'd love to invite the community people to participate in the parade.

Paul Menard

We come back to one of my favorite tracks with a clean slate, a ton of momentum, and one sharp-looking black race car,

We're all going out to get (matching) black socks.

You can mine 4 tons of coal in a couple of minutes. It's cheaper to exceed the dust limits, expose a miner to black lung and pay the fine than it is to do the right thing.

We wanted to be more stylish for small business. The Think family of offerings is awesome, but some people don't view black as their preferred color.

We've got a black cloud over us and we have to get from under it.

Women conductors are like black quarterbacks leaders who set the tone for the team,

August Wilson

To my observation, the black middle class has failed to return the expertise and sophistication and resources that they've gained in American society over the past 50 years back to the community,

Walter Mosley

The reason I'm a writer is because I'm a writer. The reason I'm going through all these different genres is I'm trying to lay out a landscape for black male heroes.

Ian Poulter

The reason I dress the way I do is because I like clothing. I looked down the range this morning and all I saw was black, khaki and navy trousers. I will wear black and navy trousers, but it will be slightly different. I think it looks too bland sometimes, and I don't want this game to be bland. It's a fantastic game we play. It's a stylish game.

Mike Lewis

We think the real reason the outage was a black eye for the industry is that they didn't initially communicate.

We're purposely calling this side the New Zealand Junior Men's team ... the boys know we won't be calling them Junior Black Sox until they make the World Series team.

Steven Barnes

Women in general were rare in the science fiction field, and black women, ha.

Too many of them (Languedoc producers) in my opinion have followed the fad and are trying to make inky black wines with too much oak,

When I saw them leave a black ghetto and become international superstars, in my mind there was no other way to go. That was it. I had to be a musician - that's how I got into music.

Bryant Gumbel

Try not to laugh when someone says these are the world's greatest athletes, despite a paucity of blacks that makes the games look like a GOP convention.

To this day, images of apes and monkeys are used as a way to depict black people. It's what it will always mean. You can't just dress monkeys up like people and not conjure Jim Crow.

Ha-Joon Chang

I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.

H. Rap Brown

The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.

Fred Hampton

We're going to fight racism not with racism, but we're going to fight with solidarity. We say we're not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we're going to fight it with socialism.

Issa Rae

Respectfully, 'Awkward Black Girl' was never meant to be politically correct. We poke fun at ignorance.