I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' – it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it. Zac Brown Black • Black Water • Everybody • Fun • Hope • Input • Lot • Sure • Water
To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse. X. J. Kennedy Black • Black And White • Certain Successful Pieces • Color • Difference Between • Film • Free • Me • Poem • Rhyme
The trials my father went through were things most young black males have to go through. There was nothing he shielded from me, because it doesn't matter how you grow up, those who oppress will oppress. It's all completely relatable; everyone feels NWA. O'Shea Jackson Jr Black • Black Males • Completely • Everyone • Father • Grow • Me • Nothing • NWA • Relatable • Things • You • Young
It's always extremities when you are a young black male dealing with law enforcement. O'Shea Jackson Jr Black • Extremities • Law • Law Enforcement • You • Young • Young Black Male Dealing
As a black woman, I have no particular interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would I? The status quo is harmful; the status quo is significantly racist and sexist and a whole bunch of other things that I think need to change. Nora K. Jemisin Black • Bunch • Change • Harmful • Interest • Need • Particular • Racist • Status • Status Quo • Think • Why • Woman
A fantasy novel set in something other than medieval Europe, featuring an almost entirely black cast, is considered risky. Nora K. Jemisin Black • Cast • Entirely Black Cast • Europe • Fantasy • Fantasy Novel • Medieval Europe • Risky • Something
There's a thriving field of self-published stuff in, particularly, black fiction. I don't know that other groups of people of color have that same recourse. Nora K. Jemisin Black • Color • Field • Groups • Know • Particularly Black Fiction • People • Recourse • Same • Selfpublished Stuff • Stuff
My entertainment was going to the local dollar movie theatre on the weekend, where I watched old black and white movies. If you wanted current movies, you had to drive to the big city. L'Wren Scott Big City • Black • Black And White • City • Current Movies • Entertainment • Local Dollar Movie • Old Black • Theatre • Weekend
You have to know the forces that are against you and that are trying to break you down. We talk about the problems facing the black community: the decimation of the black family; the mass incarceration of the black man; we're talking about the brutality against black people from the police. The educational system. D'Angelo Black • Community • Decimation • Facing • Family • Forces • Incarceration • Man • Mass • People • Police • Problems
The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign. C. C. H. Pounder Accent • Beginning • Black • Different • Thing • You
Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: Anytime something was not good, or anytime something was bad in some kinda way, it had to be called black. Like, you had Black Monday, Black Friday, black sheep… Of course, everything else, all the good stuff, is white. White Christmas and such. B. B King Anytime Something • Bad • Black • Black Monday • Christmas • Course Everything • Friday • Good • Good Stuff • Kinda Way • Little Black Sambo • Mississippi • Monday • School • Sheep • White
I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed. B. B King Black • Black Twice • Blues • Counts • Missed • Music • Never • Said • Vaughan
Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain. B. B King Better • Black • Fountain • Water • White • White Fountain
I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues. B. B King Black • Blues • Brother • People • Poor • Red • Rich • White • Yellow
Zac Brown
X. J. Kennedy
O'Shea Jackson Jr
Nora K. Jemisin
L'Wren Scott
D'Angelo
C. C. H. Pounder
B. B King
