Mr. Cosby wanted to do a show not about an upper-middle-class black family, but an upper-middle-class family that happened to be black. Though it sounds like semantics, they're very different approaches.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
FamilyBlackBlack FamilyDifferent
I loved the Black Eyed Peas. I was obsessed with them, and they were my favorite group ever, and Amy Winehouse, as well; I love her.
Alessia Cara
LoveBlackLovedGroupHerWell
It's one thing when other African-Americans try to threaten my race card, but when people outside of my ethnicity have the audacity to question how 'down' I am because of the bleak, stereotypical picture pop culture has painted for me as a black woman? Unacceptable.
Issa Rae
CultureWomanI AmPeopleMeBlack
As soon as you say that there is a community called, let's say, black Americans, you've immediately created a boundary line - who's in that group, who's outside that group.
Randall Kennedy
CommunityBlackYouSayGroupLine
Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.
Gabrielle Union
ChildrenMenBlackThinkWantTake
It would be extraordinary if the BBC were to make me the first black 'Doctor Who;' it would be extraordinary.
David Harewood
MeDoctorBlackFirstExtraordinary
Colin Kaepernick is one of the leaders in the movement for black lives. His role as an athlete and activist is not only motivating but inspiring.
Patrisse Cullors
BlackAthleteMovementRoleOnly
I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.
Ben Carson
LifeMeBlackEverythingAgainst
My black brothers and sisters - of all religious beliefs, or of no religious beliefs - we all have in common the greatest binding tie we could have. We are all black people!
Malcolm X
PeopleBlackTieGreatestBeliefs
I know what's good for me. I can't play black or gray. I can't be a villain or anything close to one. I have to play white.
Alan Ladd
GoodMeVillainBlackWhitePlay
My first web series, 'Dorm Diaries,' was a realistic mockumentary about what it was like to be black at Stanford University. I'm black and I went to Stanford. Boom. Easy.
BlackEasyFirstUniversityWeb
In the depths of the moor, the peat may be seen riven like floes of ice, and the rifts are sometimes twelve to fourteen feet deep, cut through black vegetable matter, the product of decay of plants through countless generations.
Sabine Baring-Gould
PlantsFeetDeepBlackIceMatter
The school I went to was a little farm school in Wannaska, student body 61 or something. There was a kid, the only black kid in our county, Dustin Byfuglien. He won the Stanley Cup a couple years back with the Blackhawks. Out of a class of 21 kids, he and I always had to be on opposite teams on everything because we were the most athletic.
Garrett Hedlund
SchoolBlackFarmBodyBackStudent
I was in a number of school plays, one in particular, when I was 13 or 14, entitled 'Illusions.' It was put together by one of the teachers, and was about famous historical figures. I had to do the Martin Luther King 'I have a dream' speech, and some black women in the audience were clapping and crying and whooping.
WomenTogetherSchoolKingBlack
I have to admit to being a music snob. I think, in a parallel universe, I pretty easily could have been Jack Black's character from 'High Fidelity,' working in a record store and snidely commenting on everyone's purchases.
Paul G. Tremblay
MusicCharacterBlackThinkUniverse
If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be.
Zakk Wylde
DayManTiredBlackYouEvery Day
The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
Manning Marable
PoliticsBlackPoliticalDevelopment
The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.
Al Sharpton
FamilyBlackHouseDreamWhite
'Awkward Black Girl' is spreading to all the right people because of word of mouth and social networks. I'm so grateful.
GirlGratefulPeopleBlackMouth
We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.
Saint Ignatius
BelieveBlackChurchWhiteAlways
My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
LiveAloneWaitKitchenBlackOld
I once had an extraordinary experience with former prime minister Ted Heath. Both of his eyes, including the whites, turned jet black, and I seemed to be looking into two black holes.
David Icke
EyesExperienceLookingBlackTwo
In many ways, everything about my upbringing decreed that I wouldn't write a memoir because in the world where I grew up, in Chicago in the Fifties and Sixties, one key way of protesting ourselves - 'we' meaning black people - against racism, against its stereotypes and its insults, was to curate and narrate very carefully the story of the people.
Margo Jefferson
RacismPeopleWorldStoryBlackKey
I like representing different kinds of black people - showing they exist.
Zazie Beetz
PeopleBlackExistKindsDifferent
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