As a kid, I fell in love with the ‘Creature from the Black Lagoon.’ I don’t know why. I liked the werewolf, Gamera, The Hulk, but I loved the Creature. – Will McIntosh
I have a very diverse crowd from old, young, black, white, straight, gay. It’s a little bit of everybody. – Wanda Sykes
Black glutinous rice works in both savoury and sweet dishes. It’s a popular pudding rice in south-east Asia, where you’ll often come across it cooked with water, coconut milk and a pandan leaf. – Yotam Ottolenghi
People look at me, and they don’t see what they think is a typical Aboriginal. I always thought I’d be the white person in a black play. – Shari Sebbens
Michael Brown happened to be black. Trayvon Martin happened to be black. Eric Garner was a black man. So this pattern continues over and over. – William Lacy Clay, Jr.
We struck an unusual deal. I’ll get to leave CNN with my catalog and documentaries. We were able to create a brand at CNN – ‘Black in America’ – that I now own. I can take that brand and extend it in any way I want. – Soledad O’Brien
Stanley Kubrick went with his gut feeling: he directed ‘Dr. Strangelove’ as a black comedy. The film is routinely described as a masterpiece. – Tim Cahill
If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people need nothing of the sort? – W. E. B. Du Bois
When you look at the Lady Gagas of the world, or the Jay-Zs, or the Black Eyed Peas, these are people who have one album release and it’s a worldwide one. – Tinie Tempah
When I got into Stanford in high school, I had some friends from school who told me that I just got in because I was black and whatnot. – Sterling K. Brown
Please, all you MCs out there, all you fans out there, don’t think Big gonna make a record dissing 2Pac or the West Coast because it’s not going down like that. I cant even see me wasting my time or my talent to disrespect another black man. – The Notorious B.I.G.
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
I’m a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there’s a target on me. – Wale
Audiences want great story telling; it’s why white people watch my show ‘Black in America.’ It’s why black people watch ‘Latina in America.’ All of that is statistically shown and proven but it was because it was good story telling about people who were outsiders. – Soledad O’Brien
My ideal kinda guy, if I was really gonna go there even though he’s married, is Mark Wahlberg. To me he’s a little black and white, the kinda guy who would understand if I pull my weave out. – Toni Braxton
I quickly learned that asking if an interview space was wheelchair accessible was a bad idea; it gave a potential employer an immediate bad impression. It was either a black mark against my name, or a straight up discussion of why I wouldn’t be able to work there because they had no wheelchair access. – Stella Young
I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the ‘black people’s CNN.’ Well now, hip-hop is more like Fox News. It’s biased, and highly suspect. – Saul Williams
Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me personal property. I lost the remaining shreds of my anonymity, even to walk a few yards in London, Paris or Frankfurt without being stopped. – Wole Soyinka
I liked the fact that there were so many different representations of black women and black men in the movie. It wasn’t like we all had the same agenda. – Sanaa Lathan
As a kid growing up St. Louis, Missouri, I lived in a predominantly black neighborhood. Any time people talked about slavery, it was always something like, ‘If I was a slave, I wouldn’t have been putting up with that. I would have been out in a heartbeat.’ And it’s like, sure, it’s a very easy thing to say. – Sterling K. Brown
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. – Ursula K. Le Guin
I think a lot about the private emotions of black people – what we feel and yet is rarely publicly expressed. – Ta-Nehisi Coates
I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience. – Stephen Carter
All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black. – Umberto Eco
Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences. – Taylor Dayne
I like Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Common. But I like the underground stuff like Young Jeezy, Black Rob and Shine. I also love heavy metal like Slipknot and Pantera, It’s very intense stuff. – Vanilla Ice
In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy. – William Irwin Thompson