#hit

Because, if I'm honest, people in the white world might be appalled, but in the black world, they're making myths out of me. And I know that ain't the life. ↗

— John Singleton

#because #black #honest #i #know

Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks. ↗

— Gary Sinise

#career #demand #great #hits #sometimes

Black patients were treated much later in their disease process. They were often not given the same kind of pain management that white patients would have gotten and they died more often of diseases. ↗

— Rebecca Skloot

#died #disease #diseases #given #gotten

A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed. ↗

— Barbara Smith

#anti-semitism #black #challenged #color #major

You can keep rummaging around until you find a song you like, but you can't predict whether it'll hit or not. ↗

— Tennessee Ernie Ford

#find #hit #keep #like #predict

I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston. ↗

— Robert Smith

#i #listening #looking #my time #rather

In black neighborhoods, everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community, fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes that were equally hilarious across the board, for totally different reasons. ↗

— Will Smith

#across #appreciated #black #board #comedy

A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#convalescence #going #kind #lights #neutral

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#art #continues #finished #habit #painting

Celebrity hits like a bomb. ↗

— Jimmy Smits

#celebrity #hits #like