Famous Quotes & Sayings

I knew from experience at the Negro Ensemble Company that it wasn't until there was a place controlled by black artists... that Pulitzer Prize-winning work like 'Ceremonies in Dark Old Men' and 'A Soldier's Play' came to fruition.

Venus Williams

I knew she was watching when Serena won the U.S. Open and she's happy to see another black woman win in her lifetime.

I knew Josh was on the black line, and when (the official) called that, I knew right away what he was looking at, so I went over to (the official) and pointed on the ground.

I knew what I was getting into when I chose golf. Hell, I knew I'd never get rich and famous. All the discrimination, the not being able to play where I deserved and wanted to play - in the end, I didn't give a damn. I was made for a tough life because I'm a tough man. And in the end, I won: I got a lot of black people playing golf.

Carolyn Jones

I like men. I like the sound of their voices, the way they think. They're more sensitive than women. With a woman, everything is either this or that, black or white. But a man can see shades of gray. That's what I call being sensitive.

I'm really passionate about the black and white jersey. I just want to do my country proud.

I'm fine with crowds as long as I'm in black and white and polyester.

I'm definitely kind of a black sheep when it comes to international students. Most students get the requisite Christmas break and summer visits when they go home. Not only do I get those but I also have family members in the United States so I get to see my them more often than others.

Chris Rock

I kind of wanted to give him that James Evans nobility, ... With the exception of 'The Cosby Show,' every black father I see on TV, they're not really masculine. They're like these theater-type guys -- not gay, not straight, just theater.

Art Shell

I just want to get back to the point where ... when we walk into the Coliseum, the Raiders are here. And we're going to play in Black Bottom - we used to call it Black Bottom back in the day, now they call it the Black Hole. That's our home field. That's our home. You can't come in our back yard and win.

Richard Adams

I just want to encourage them, ... Coming from a black environment, we don't like to give up our organs.

I keep getting described as a tall black drag queen, but I dont think of myself as a drag queen,

I have often told you that I am that little fish who swims about under a shark and, I believe, lives indelicately on its offal. Anyway, that is the way I am. Life moves over me in a vast black shadow and I swallow whatever it drops with relish, having learned in a very hard school that one cannot be both a parasite and enjoy self-nourishment without moving in worlds too fantastic for even my disordered imagination to people with meaning.

I'm sure she's got some black and blue marks.

Robert Solow

infants typically toiled their way to an early death in the pits and mills of the Black Country.

Kim Jones

OK, one family, you got to feed your neighbors kids 'cause they ain't (got) no money or food for them to feed themselves. So I'm excited about one Black family getting a house? So what? That don't help me. It don't help nobody.

Jim Balsillie

No matter what, the BlackBerry service will keep working.

It's where common sense and nonsense meet head-up, ... Barbershops are the black man's country club. You can say what you want, no matter how crazy it is.

Is this what the pioneers of the civil rights movement fought to achieve, a society where many black people are as trapped and isolated by their poverty as they were by segregation laws? If Sept. 11 showed the power of a nation united in response to a devastating attack, Hurricane Katrina reveals the fault lines of a region and a nation, rent by profound social divisions.

It these broken utterances can in any way help to a clearer vision and a truer pulse-beat in studying the Nation's Problem, this Voice by a Black Woman of the South will not have been raised in vain.

Graham Greene

The world is not black and white. More like black and grey.

The war caused teams to look at black players seriously for the first time due to the shortage of white players because they were leaving the game to go to war.

Clint Eastwood

The U.S. military was segregated 'til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated.

They decided to do Iowa and Black Hawk County.

They can't get a home for their children, they see black and ethnic minority communities moving in and they are angry.

Kevin Costner

They weren't sure they wanted to watch it because it was in black and white. I said, 'You watch this.' But in the end, my oldest, Ann, said it was a really good movie.

They were suspended two games by the (OHSAA). In the last game of the regular season they left the bench. Both were starters. The other team started the altercation after they were up by 25 points, that's why they were on the bench. The altercation was on the opposite end of the court and our players walked out on the floor. I grabbed them, sat them back down, but the rule says that if you cross the black line, it's two games.

Jesse Williams

There's so much material out there that's unnecessarily racist. It takes a shot at what is 'urban' or demonstrates blackness with some sassy, neck-jiving character that's not even relevant to the plot. I see it time and time again, and it doesn't move the story forward. It just kind of cryogenically freezes us in this old racial paradigm.

There should be a little black cloud over them which follows wherever they go.

Bill Cosby

There's no reason for him to come here and jump on black men who have been held down for years.

Tim Bajarin

There's no question this is going directly after the BlackBerry user.

There's no pressure on Black Hawk, no one expects us to win this game. Yet they believe, and when a team believes, anything can happen.

Taye Diggs

There's no white person I know that can say that they haven't been through what any of these Black characters are going through.