#hit

So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks to you organically. Rap grows out of what young people really are today, not only black youth, but white - everybody. ↗

— Archie Shepp

#anyway #black #blues #element #everybody

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#choose #forced #four #house #i

I can pretty much call anyone, whether at the White House, in a company or in the media. I have access, because of the silliness of the entertainment world and how people react to it. It gave me an enormous opportunity to do anything I really want to. ↗

— Andrew Shue

#anyone #anything #because #call #company

I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work. ↗

— Bill Sienkiewicz

#doing #how #i #just #learn

I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#grips #hits #i #idea #ideas

I think you should know that real-life white people are not all as funny as the ones on 'Seinfeld'. ↗

— Aaron McGruder

#race #seinfeld #white #funny

Michael Taylor is not being executed for homicide. Michael Taylor is being executed for raping a white female. ↗

— John Simon

#executed #female #homicide #michael #taylor

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music. ↗

— Nina Simone

#classical #classical music #define #jazz #music

From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman. ↗

— Nina Simone

#beginning #black #man #touch #white

We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next, trying to attract a larger house, trying to reach an audience that's half black and white. ↗

— Valerie Simpson

#audience #been #black #black and white #come