#black

It's better to be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother. ↗

— Charles Pierce

#better #black #gay #mother #tell

Personally, I'm very classic. If I'm going to wear a suit, it's going to be classic, black, and fit very well. There's nothing like it. ↗

— Michael Pitt

#classic #fit #going #i #like

I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#female #gay #human #i #just

The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#black #boycott #certain #church #films

The people who couldn't get out of New Orleans to escape the storm were predominantly Black. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#escape #get #new #new orleans #orleans

Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs. ↗

— Ishmael Reed

#baseball #become #blacks #chicago #chicago cubs

That kind of thing happens to black people every day in this country, and they don't receive that kind of sentence he did, which was to go to prison on the weekends; I think he lectured there-an outside lecturer. ↗

— Ishmael Reed

#country #day #did #every #every day

I can see why many Southerners, black ones in particular, don't like the implication that Southernness and the Confederate heritage are one and the same, because they're not. On the other hand, there are people who want to extirpate that completely and want folks to spit on the graves of their ancestors. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#because #black #completely #confederate #folks

You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern. ↗

— Keith Richards

#black #black or white #chuck #chuck berry #concern

There's a great deal of disturbance in this country and how black feel about what happened in Katrina, and, you know, many of the comics, many of performers are in Las Vegas and New Orleans trying to raise money for what happened there. ↗

— Michael Richards

#black #comics #country #deal #disturbance