#black

I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from which we are living the legacy and which just don't get made. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#black #few #figures #film #get

I think until Britain acknowledges just how much of a presence black people had here before the Sixties, then there are certain stories that are not going to be inclusive of what I have to offer. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#black #britain #certain #going #had

I did pose for 'Black and White' magazine, a prestigious, artistic publication, several years ago... I did this as a piece of art and make no apologies for the creative decisions I've made as an artist in my 20-year career. ↗

— Andrea Thompson

#art #artist #artistic #black #black and white

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

— Jean Paul

#distance #gray #heads #like #look

Every white will have its black, And every sweet its sour. ↗

— Thomas Percy

#every #sour #sweet #white #will

I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive. ↗

— Tyler Perry

#boy #face #i #just #name

It would be much easier to just make black, brown and beige clothes. But I do not see the world in black and white and beige. I find colors incredibly important. ↗

— Jean Pigozzi

#black and white #brown #clothes #colors #easier

When I was a kid, I was following black soul music. ↗

— Robert Plant

#following #i #kid #music #soul

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

I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos. ↗

— Sun Ra

#black #cosmos #dark #dealing #history