#black

I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#american politics #barack #because #black #cuz

I want to see as many black professionals as possible. ↗

— Orlando Jones

#i #many #possible #professionals #see

Life is about choices. Some we regret, some were proud of. Some will haunt us forever. 'Black Rain' was very much about choices. The message - we are what we chose to be. ↗

— Graham Brown

#black #choices #chose #forever #haunt

I was wearing black clothes almost from the beginning. I feel comfortable in black. I felt like black looked good onstage, that it was attractive, so I started wearing it all the time. ↗

— Johnny Cash

#attractive #beginning #black #clothes #comfortable

Showtime has given new, young filmmakers - black, white, across the board - an opportunity to make films, as well as actors who want to cross over into directing. ↗

— Morris Chestnut

#black #board #cross #directing #filmmakers

I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly. ↗

— Bessie Coleman

#blacks #decided #difficulties #experience #faced

Some of the free lunch programs were still goin' on - based on the last leg of the Black Panther Party. ↗

— Kool Moe Dee

#black #free #free lunch #goin #last

Reckless capitalism kills black people. ↗

— Mos Def

#capitalism #kills #people #reckless

I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to bring opportunities to other blacks. ↗

— Larry Doby

#being #blacks #bring #going #hard

...a useful coorective to the triumphalism of some scientists. For example, Maddox went out of his way to emphasise the provisional nature of much physics - he referred to black holes as 'putative' only, to the search for theories of everything as 'the embodiment of a belief, even a hope' and stated that the reason why the quantum gravity project is 'becalmed' right now is because 'the problem to be solved is not yet fully understood' and that the idea that the universe began with a Big Bang 'will be found to be false'. ↗

— Peter Watson

#theory-of-everything #beauty