Famous Quotes & Sayings

The traceability and labeling scheme puts a black mark on any biotech product.

What was painted on the B.U.C.K.S. side of the bridge with the black face crying white tears -- it's really hard for a person to say that's not racially motivated,

Joseph Lowery

What was not on the national radar screen has exploded onto television screens, ... We know now that the faces of poverty are black and brown, painful and anguished. Let this nation rise up to eliminate poverty and the faces of poverty vanish from the American scene.

What those plays did for the black theater community was tremendous,

What George Bush wanted to do politically was shore up his support in the black community.

Don Cheadle

I imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in blaxploitation movies. There was a much greater preponderance of work then than there is now.

We are no longer the black sheep on this issue. Europe is united on this. It shares the values that we have defended.

Brad Davis

What are they going to do, put a black shawl on the wall and say those 10 years never happened?

What difference does it make if she's black or not to these people? Why in the world would they refer to her in that manner?

What creates fashion purchases is dramatic changes, black to white, short to long.

Bill Thomas

This is what we've done to ourselves. These bright, smart young kids aren't encouraged to succeed. Our black community is in trouble.

This is the most promotional Black Friday we have seen.

Dorothy Height

When you're a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do; you always do what you have to do.

(In these films) the blacks establish their worthiness only by serving white men. The screen image of the Zulu obscures and overwhelms the reality.

Elizabeth Morgan

I heard someone screaming, 'He stole my baby. Please call the police,' ... When I looked out, I saw a black male carrying the baby, running down the street.

Harry S Truman

I have read your lousy review of Margaret's concert. I've come to the conclusion that you are an eight ulcer man on a four ulcer job Some day I hope to meet you. When that happens you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes and perhaps a supporter below.

I really have no explanation, other than that Black Hills played pretty good defense. I have a lot of respect for them. They could knock off River Ridge.

Glenda Bailey

I really like all the neutral colors and natural materials designers are using, especially the linens and burlap. White has been such a big story this season and gray is, as well. After a fall season with so much black in it, it's really no surprise that in the new spring season gray is the new black.

I provided an extensive declaration to the District Court as to the harm which would occur to our health care enterprises if BlackBerry service was eliminated.

In the late 1990s, I wrote a book from the point of view of a young black woman who has barricaded herself in her college dorm room, pursued by a man, either real or imagined, who finally materializes as the father she has never known.

Zanele Muholi

In the past 10 years I have recorded 50 rape cases involving black lesbians in townships.

Joe Barton

If you want to see real shortages and a black market, then put price controls back on,

In order to get large numbers of blacks back into New Orleans would require huge amounts of money.

David Oyelowo

In my time since moving to the United States, I've found that there is a dearth of great writing for black people. There are stories that depict us in a way that isn't cliched or niche, and that a white person, a Chinese person, an Indian person can watch and relate to. Those are the stories I want to be a part of telling.

I guess you could say she's the 'blackest' white woman in the world. She carried herself as a black woman.

Gary Green

I guess I was naive. I had no idea it would be a black church. I guess I should have put two and two together.

I had five, huge, big black binders. They were heavy, and I was hunched over carrying them in.

It helps us to maintain one of the things we are proud of -- reserves, ... Regardless of how many hurricanes hit us, and we were hit with several last year, we have managed to maintain our reserves. I think one of the things a city has to do is to maintain itself, not only operate in the black daily, but (remain) in the black when you hit your reserves.

Bruce Beresford

I have written a lot of films that didn't get made for one reason or another and I have one called The Women in Black that I hope will get made next year. And there were others that got made that I wrote under different names, I always think that better directors write the scripts because if you can't write, and you don't have anything to say, then what's the point of making films?

I just hope it doesn't rain too much. She's much better going two turns but this is a grade I and you've got to get the black type if you can.

Nolan Richardson

I'm a Tiger now. Black and gold are my new favorite colors.

If there are danger signs brewing ... that make people very, very nervous, I don't see anything that could prevent the same kind of mood (as Black Monday's) from reappearing. It's clear that you don't need a very concrete, cut-and-dried kind of trigger to make people stampede if they're in the mood to be stampeded.

Roy H. Williams

If there's anything to that, ... it's going to be very bad, because it's taking money from a struggling black institution.