Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward James Olmos

There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is

Eddie Murphy

Theres this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was able to rise above that box. I could have done a bunch of movies where I stayed as the Axel Foley or Reggie Hammond persona. But I didnt want to be doing the same thing all the time. Every now and then, you crash and burn, but thats part of it.

Cassandra Wilson

Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.

Chanel Iman

Mostly I'm proud to be an African-American woman, but I'm glad I have a universal look as well.

Charles Rangel

The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.

Bob Marley

Don't gain the world and lose your...

C. L. R. James

First of all, Bolshevism represents...

Barbara Jordan

A good compromise, a good piece of...

Booker T. Washington

Each one should remember there is a chance for him.

Charles Stross

Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!

Al Sharpton

We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.

Chris Chocola

Without the right tools, we can't police our markets from illegal trade.

Eddie Izzard

MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic.

August Strindberg

Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.

Chester Brown

One of the significant reasons why women who are trafficked and forced to work as prostitutes often don't want to come forward is because they're worried they'll be deported. If the police are certain that a woman has been trafficked and forced into prostitution, then perhaps we should automatically allow her citizenship.

Charlaine Harris

I added to my mental list of the odd things I'd done that day. I'd entertained the police, sunbathed, visited at a mall with some fairies, weeded and killed someone. Now it was powdered-corpse removal time. And the day wasn't over yet.

Bill Maher

Sarah Palin's whole family got into a drunken public fistfight. Something police are calling a 'tragic case of trash-on-trash violence.'

Dick Durbin

We can't do much about ensuring that the homeland is safe if our local police and sheriffs' departments don't have the personnel they need to keep our streets and neighborhoods secure.

Deborah King

Unless you're living in your truth, you're slowly killing yourself.

Ed Koch

The person who is bent on killing you will follow you wherever you are.

David Sedaris

The thought of killing myself had slowed me down to five miles per hour. The thought of killing someone else stopped me completely.

Cynthia Nixon

We didn't know each other before [ the Killing Reagan], but I just knew we would love each other [with Tim Matheson].

Donald Trump

I don't like [Bashir] Assad at all. But Assad is killing ISIS. Russia is killing ISIS.

Donald Trump

I don't like Assad at all, but Assad is killing ISIS. Russia is killing ISIS. And Iran is killing ISIS. And those three have now lined up because of our weak foreign policy.

Anne Rice

You see,' [Armand] said, 'killing other vampires is very exciting; that is why it is forbidden under penalty of death.

Amanda Hocking

You're killing me here! You are far more dangerous than I am!

Anatoly Chubais

Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology.