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"Well, there were definitely elements of my rise in radio that had to do with my being black. But going back as far as Walter Winchell, Army Archerd and Hedda Hopper, legendary wags would grab a radio microphone and talk about what Errol Flynn and other stars were up to."
"Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no information can be passed back out of the hole."
"My world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger."
"The fact is that we have many superstitions, many bad spots and sores on our body - these have to be excised, cut off, and destroyed - but these do not destroy our religion, our national life, our spirituality. Every principle of religion is safe, and the sooner these black spots are purged away, the better the principles will shine, the more gloriously. Stick to them."
"[T]here's nobody Black in charge of anything in Hollywood."
"There are enough negative images of Black women out there and I did not want to portray Dorothy Vaughn in any stereotype. I wanted to make sure that her integrity was preserved."
"Both this song ['Black Skinhead'], 'I Am a God' and this song were made after Hedi Slimane didn't let me into his first Saint Laurent show."
"I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for."
"If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison, and the masses of black people in America today are beginning to regard our plight or predicament in this society as one of a prison inmate."
"Black-and-whit e always looks modern, whatever that word means."
"I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial."
"I'm the little half-black, half-Jewish girl who was odd and awkward. I try to be myself."
"White folks needs what black folks got just as much as black folks needs what white folks got, and we's all got to stay here mongst each other and git along, that's what."
"Miracles happen all the time. We're here, aren't we?"
"Robert was the true steel. Stannis is pure iron, black and hard and strong, yes, but brittle, the way iron gets. He'll break before he bends. And Renly, that one, he's copper, bright and shiny, pretty to look at but not worth all that much at the end of the day."
"In the Occupied Territories, what Israel is doing is much worse than apartheid. The South African Nationalists needed the black population. That was their workforce. The Israeli relationship to the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories is totally different. They just don’t want them."
"Colorism is not a good thing, especially when you're Black."
"Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking."
"Riddle me this, riddle me that. Who's afraid of the big black bat?"
"Everybody was wearing rhinestones, all those sparkly clothes, and cowboy boots. I decided to wear a black shirt and pants and see if I could get by with it. I did and I've worn black clothes ever since."
