#black

I joke to people in the press that I realize I'm not black, I'm actually white. But I've got these roots in black American music. I love it. ↗

— Glenn Hughes

#american #american music #black #got #i

I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever. ↗

— Chad Hugo

#around #being #black #cool #grew

One of the things I have an allergic reaction to playing, especially as a black actor, is the mandatory kind of best friend/cop/detective type. You will never see me in that movie. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#allergic #best #best friend #black #cop

Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

#america #best #blacks #country #course

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#brother #courage #endures #laughter #offers

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#anything #black #black history #complex #could

If I go into a club now, all the blonde girls leave my corner and all the black girls come into my corner. It's as if I'm racist towards white girls! ↗

— Boris Becker

#blonde #club #come #corner #go

My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education. ↗

— Gary Becker

#blacks #both #calculate #capital #different

Guys just don't care. We don't take the time to plan behind each other's back. We just say, If you don't like me, screw you'. If a guy doesn't like you, you know because you have a black eye. ↗

— Jonathan Bennett

#because #behind #black #care #each

And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we're either color blind or we're not color blind. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#america #american #asian #black #blind