#black

I talked to members of my family, and did some personal research that didn't really have anything to do with the time and place I was writing about, but that gave me a feeling of the experience of being black in a time and place where it was very difficult to be black. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#anything #being #black #did #difficult

I don't display my plaques and honors. They are hidden behind a black curtain in my work room at home. ↗

— John Cameron

#black #curtain #display #hidden #home

Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#basketball #become #blacks #deny #dominant

Finally, the complexities of black relationships are being portrayed in television and film. ↗

— Lisa Nicole Carson

#black #complexities #film #finally #portrayed

In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist. ↗

— Stephen Carter

#black #class #entertainment #exist #generations

I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish. ↗

— Billy Crystal

#black #comfortable #i #jewish #old

Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful. ↗

— John Cusack

#black #black and white #evil #fact #helpful

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#black #dislike #him #individual #insulting

Kids are our future, and we hope baseball has given them some idea of what it is to live together and how we can get along, whether you be black or white. ↗

— Larry Doby

#baseball #black #black or white #future #get

Barack Obama makes me feel good to be a black man. ↗

— Snoop Dogg

#barack obama #black #feel #feel good #good