Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Wozniak

The way I wanted to write it, is with a hero, or sort of a pure character who was the protagonist. And the antagonists were these demonic evil children, cause when you're a kid, seven or eight years old, and you're looking at the world around you - everything seems black or white, good or bad.

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.

We tried to keep in the spirit of the Hitchcock films, ... We've done everything in black and white the outfits, makeup, sets to get the feel of being in an old movie.

We talked about how Sunday morning is so segregated, with white churches and black churches.

Ron Parker

What's unique about this center is that it is one of the few, if not only, free standing black cultural centers in the nation.

With freezing water on the roadways following the snow removal there's concern about the black ice.

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.

Issa Rae

I don't think the mainstream media understands people of color are multidimensional. For some reason, there's an idea that only white people are relatable. I don't think it's necessarily racist. But it's odd, because the people who watch the most television are black women, so we should be represented in more ways.

Issa Rae

As a teenager, my blackness was also questioned by some of the life choices I made that weren't considered to be 'black' choices. For example, joining the swim team when it is a known fact that 'black folk don't swim'; or choosing to become a vegetarian when blacks clearly love chicken.

Issa Rae

The black characters on TV are the sidekicks, or they're insignificant. You could put all the black sidekicks on one show, and it would be the most boring, one-dimensional show ever. Even look at the black women on 'Community' and 'Parks and Recreation' - they are the archetype of the large black women on television. Snide and sassy.

George Washington

with black feathery trim -- because the founding father was ''so stiff.

Alphonso Jackson

Yet critics on the left find it incomprehensible that any black American could succeed on his or her own through hard work and determination.

While they're battling, we're sucking black sand and water.

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,

Stu Jackson

We felt since neither team played (Thursday), we had some extra time to review the situation. There is no black mark for Ray. It is one incident and you move on and hope it doesn't happen again. We had not received anything on our desk from either player before, so we wanted to make sure we talked to everybody.

Patricia Wright

We hit a nerve. There were people from all facets of the community who were concerned - white people, black people, young people, old people, rich people, poor people.

We see enough energy coming out of these black holes to completely stifle star formation. This is an exciting finding because it demonstrates a direct interaction between black holes and galaxy formation, which is a hot topic in astrophysics right now.

We see a lot of black in furniture now.

Sam Bush

Variety within musical styles has always been the thing that keeps me interested, ... But the music has to come from bluegrass first. We always said back in the '70s that if you want to play new grass you have to go through the school of bluegrass. You know, maybe Jack Black can make a movie now called School of Bluegrass . That would be cool.

James Wallace

Users have no one to blame but RIM. They've been given a reasonable royalties offer, but they have refused to take it. BlackBerry owners have every right to be upset.

Michael Kors

We don't want to wear black every day, but we don't want head-to-toe color every day either. Green can sort of do both and I think that's what's great about it.

Tim Meadows

You get a lot of Johnnie Cochran roles. Those kind of things fall to you naturally because of the color of your skin. You have to give them what they want. Yeah, I was a black actor on the show and Johnnie Cochran came, but I had to learn how to do Johnnie Cochran, make it funny.