#lack

I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved. ↗

— Vernon Jordan

#because #black #every #here #i

They're keeping friction going between people from the East and the West. One thing we all got in common is your color, which is Black and Latino, which is our family. ↗

— Afrika Bambaataa

#black #color #common #east #family

For her fifth wedding, the bride wore black and carried a scotch and soda. ↗

— Phyllis Battelle

#bride #carried #fifth #her #scotch

Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#black and white #difficult #drawing #even #gray

One day's delay is another day's lack of progress. ↗

— Stuart Bowen

#day #delay #lack #progress

It's not impossible for a woman - a Black woman - to become President. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#black #impossible #president #woman

All my friends were in the park smoking weed and getting pregnant. I didn't want to be the young black girl having a baby, a baby's father, being on welfare. That wasn't going to be my story. ↗

— Foxy Brown

#being #black #father #friends #getting

Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow - red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight. ↗

— Jesse Brown

#black and white #blue #brown #flag #god

We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours? ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#battles #been #black #champions #class

A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble. ↗

— Charley Pride

#black #blond #girl #man #potential