When the Black Lips sent a track over to me, I thought it sounded like a Beastie Boys track, the way the singer was singing and flowing on it. He was right in the pocket.
Gza
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Every now and then you get a nice Jewish kid who likes black people and they would come in, and it would be a stream of them, and have black friends and really feel the black struggle on the acting tip and it's a reason why all of us are not dying in the movie.
Mike Epps
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I always wear my black watch on my left wrist so I know I'm on stage on time.
Conor Maynard
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Ever since I can remember, I've worn big black boots. They are super warm and get me where I need to go.
Penelope Mitchell
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I like bold colors but usually wear black.
Mayim Bialik
ColorsBlackBoldWearLike
The whole thing about 'progressive R&B' blows my mind. Black music has always been progressive.
Kelela
MusicMindBlackAlwaysProgressive
My kids are deep. My daughter plays music. My son, Black Jack, doesn't forget anything.
Shooter Jennings
MusicSonDaughterDeepBlackKids
Who doesn't like to play Black Sabbath tunes!
Dimebag Darrell
BlackPlaySabbathWhoLikeTunes
Scripts were rather scarce in 1968. We did a lot of Amiri Baraka's plays, the agitprop stuff he was writing. It was at a time when black student organizations were active on the campuses, so we were invited to the colleges around Pittsburgh and Ohio, and even as far away as Jackson, Mississippi.
August Wilson
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There are very few really stark black and white stories.
Jim Lehrer
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When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?
Marilyn French
ProgressBlackYouOutBecauseWere
When I found photography, I found this other kind of portraiture of black families and black people who were photographing themselves or having themselves photographed in ways they wanted to be seen.
Amy Sherald
PeopleBlackPhotographyKindSeen
I'm not a big eye makeup girl unless there's a professional doing it - otherwise I look like I have two black eyes!
Holland Roden
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We need to encourage black women to know that they are authors of their own destiny, that they have important stories to tell, and that they are capable, so magically capable, of writing them and creating important pieces of work that will live forever in history.
Michaela Coel
WomenBlackBackYoungWriteHead
Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.
Coretta Scott King
PeopleBelieveBlackWhiteWrong
I'm black because that's the way the world sees me.
Paula Patton
MeWorldBlackWayBecauseSees
My dad is Caucasian, and my mom is African American. I'm half black and half white. Being biracial paints a blurred line that is equal parts staggering and illuminating.
Meghan Markle
MomBlackAmericanWhiteEqualLine
Some of the free lunch programs were still goin' on - based on the last leg of the Black Panther Party.
Kool Moe Dee
LunchFreeBlackPartyLegLast
Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness, and your black presence.
Toyin Odutola
PeopleBlackArtistWantTalkFirst
So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.
Don Cheadle
MenBlackPlaySavageNobleEither
I think that if we really want to break it down, that non-black filmmakers have had many, many years and many, many opportunities to tell many, many stories about themselves, and black filmmakers have not had as many years, as many opportunities, as many films to explore the nuances of our reality.
Ava DuVernay
OpportunitiesBlackThinkReality
The first thing I do when I wake up is cardio on an empty stomach. I'll just drink water, or maybe I'll have a black coffee with no sugar, and I'll do about 25 minutes of cardio, six days a week.
Jinder Mahal
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Finding the voice of a character, no matter who it is - from Black Widow to Han Solo - is the first and most important hurdle for me to cross in any work of fiction.
Marjorie Liu
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For children, diversity needs to be real and not merely relegated to learning the names of the usual suspects during Black History Month or enjoying south-of-the-border cuisine on Cinco de Mayo. It means talking to and spending time with kids not like them so that they may discover those kids are in fact just like them.
John Ridley
LearningChildrenHistoryTimeBlack
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