#black

I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It's time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is. ↗

— Dizzy Gillespie

#because #been #blacks #doing #history

My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman. ↗

— Lena Horne

#black #clear #i #i am #identity

Yeah, even a black comedy. Where it's a little eerie. I'd love to do that. But there are about three really fabulous ones on the air now and I don't know if I can do any better than that. I'd like to sort of forge new ground. ↗

— Sharon Gless

#air #any #better #black #black comedy

The current neglect of the problem can only irritate this deplorable state of affairs. The Black Muslims should constitute a warning to our society, a warning that must be heeded if we are to preserve the society. ↗

— Andrew Goodman

#black #constitute #current #deplorable #heeded

I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman. ↗

— David Alan Grier

#doctor #i #lawyer #leading #leading man

Well who's black and what is a black person? ↗

— Pam Grier

#person #well #who

As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people anywhere on the face of the earth including all of the nations that are ruled by blacks. ↗

— David Horowitz

#anywhere #black #blacks #earth #efforts

He will bring us all, rich and poor, white and black, to his judgment seat. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

#bring #his #judgment #poor #rich

Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her. ↗

— James Hal Cone

#before #believer #black #community #faith

It may be for 20 or 30 years no one has yet been able to decide the length of the life of the black bass. ↗

— Jay Cooke

#bass #been #black #decide #length