#black

That's because we did not set out to make black music. We set out to make quality music that everyone could enjoy and listen to. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

#black #black music #could #did #enjoy

You know, people who almost - yeah, there's a slight reluctance there - but there's also an ambiguity. What are their morals? What is their code of living. What are they really doing here. And it is just interesting because it is never black or white. ↗

— Matt Robinson

#also #ambiguity #because #black #black or white

I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money. ↗

— Dennis Rodman

#black #black community #community #educating #i

As I detail in my new book: 'Hard Measures, How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives,' there are many myths surrounding the detention of a relatively small number of top terrorists at CIA-run 'black sites' from 2002 until they were sent to Guantanamo Bay in 2006. ↗

— Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.

#after #aggressive #american #american lives #bay

I don't care if you're gay, black, Chinese, straight. That means nothing to me. It's all an illusion. ↗

— Joe Rogan

#care #chinese #gay #i #illusion

Designing bridal is perfect for me, because black is my least favorite color, if you could call it a color. ↗

— Lela Rose

#black #bridal #call #color #could

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray. ↗

— Jean Paul

#distance #gray #heads #like #look

The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#agree #american #american politics #black #black hole

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.' ↗

— Colin Powell

#being #black #come #i #longer

No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had. ↗

— Charley Pride

#blacks #ever #had #i #kind