I bought my first pair of pointy-toed Miu Miu shoes with a kitten heel from Barneys. They were $200, and it was a big deal. I wore them with a pleated black Benetton skirt and a white shirt. I looked like a waitress.
Eva Chen
ShoesBlackWhiteFirstKittenBig
You never want to be the whitest-sounding black guy in a room.
Jordan Peele
BlackYouWantNeverRoomGuy
Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were previously. It use to be possible to go to the bar on the corner and hear music. It was available for a fifteen cent beer.
Archie Shepp
LiveMusicBeerBlackGoPossible
No matter what you do, black lace tends to look a little Spanish.
Nicole Miller
BlackYouLookMatterLittleLace
I suppose that I inherited the same vocabulary and world view as most black Christians do, most Christians in general, to be sure. It was heterosexist in the sense that it took the heterosexual orientation as the norm from which to start as the given. And everything that fell outside of that was not acceptable.
Michael Eric Dyson
WorldStartBlackViewOutsideSame
If black people use their resources properly, they can become as competitive as any group in society - take control of our neighborhoods, our businesses, our schools, including our teachers. The only thing keeping black people from doing it is this idiotic idea about integration, about being racially balanced.
James Meredith
PeopleControlSocietyBlackDoing
Black people are achievers; we're survivors.
Roxie Roker
PeopleBlackAchieversSurvivors
When I was young, I used to expect Parisians to wear little black berets, to bicycle about with strings of onions around their necks, and to brandish long sticks of bread, just like they used to do in school textbooks.
Craig Brown
SchoolBlackBicycleLongYoung
We have seen a lot of interest from Chinese developers on Google Play because the extent to which Android is used. If we can figure out a model by which we can serve those users, it would be a privilege to do so. So I don't think of China as a black hole.
Sundar Pichai
BlackThinkPlayPrivilegeGoogle
I've had two unlucky injuries that are the equivalent of walking under 1,000 ladders and seeing 1,000 black cats.
Andrew Bogut
CatsBlackWalkingInjuriesSeeing
Designing bridal is perfect for me, because black is my least favorite color, if you could call it a color.
Lela Rose
MeColorBlackYouPerfectCall
I like stories of the classic hero, of good versus evil, the ones in which the good guys wear white and the bad guys wear black... and I love a good sword fight.
Simon Sinek
LoveGoodHeroFightEvilBlack
Do you know, if I go to a Jewish school, them kids are quiet. If I go to a white school, them kids quiet. If I go to a Latino school, they quiet. The only kids that disrespect me is black kids. That's it - my own are the only ones that disrespect me.
Eric D. Thomas
SchoolMeBlackDisrespectYouKnow
I love berries. Strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, black berries, anything with an 'errie' in it!
Jordin Sparks
LoveBlackStrawberriesAnything
There are a lot of limitations and stigmas that are placed on young actors, specifically young black actors.
Anthony Mackie
BlackYoungLimitationsYoung Actors
Ethnically, Tuareg describe themselves as white. And they don't look Arab or black. Many Tuareg have light skin, light eyes and sharp angular noses and cheekbones. They are cousins of the Berbers of North Africa. Some legends say the Tuareg are the decedents of an ancient Roman legion that disappeared into the desert two millennia ago.
Richard Engel
EyesLightDesertBlackLookSkin
It is bad enough to be white and poor; it is worse still to be black, or brown, and female, and young, and poor. Simply said, race makes class hurt more.
BlackHurtEnoughBadWhiteYoung
Barack Obama's historic 2008 presidential campaign touched on all the themes I have covered throughout my career and all of the layers of meaning that run through black politics. Ambition. Aspiration. Fear. Folly. It was all on display as Obama boarded the roller coaster that ultimately led to the White House.
Gwen Ifill
FearPoliticsAmbitionBlackMeaning
I do consider myself part of black history.
Mary J. Blige
HistoryMyselfBlackBlack History
I realized with Broadway everything written for black people is usually written in the past, and I'm kind of a contemporary guy. I don't think you want to see me in 'Raisin in the Sun'.
Chris Rock
PastSunPeopleMeBlackThink
I look in the mirror, and what I see is someone who has never grown up - a crashing sentimentalist who alternates between great heights and black depths.
Peter Sellers
GreatMirrorBlackSomeoneLookSee
I got a young black woman agent, and she kinda just knew what I would be attracted to. She sent me this pilot for 'Insecure.' I never saw myself as a comedy director, but when I read those pages, I said, 'Wow - this is my life on the page.'
Melina Matsoukas
LifeMyselfWomanMeBlackMy Life
My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London.
Ken Livingstone
BlackWillLondonIssuesTackle
I always assumed I'd marry a black woman.
Trip Lee
WomanBlackAlwaysMarryAssumed
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