Quotes About Black

Not unlike our country's history, my personal history was founded upon an unfortunate history of racial conflict between black and white.

I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.

There's this idea that many of the attitudes and personality developments in black folks in the diaspora are a consequence of this unresolved trauma. There have been attempts by black artists to try and figure out how to represent that in some kind of way.

I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.

The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.

Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal.

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.

Black Lives Matter was born out of our unwavering love for black people and our undeniable rage over a system that has historically dehumanized black people.

The unwritten rule in college basketball is the black assistant goes and gets the black players. Don't worry about the X's and O's. Just recruit.

Lucky Me' is the story of every young black man who grew up like me. I want to use my story to uplift and inspire those who lived this and educate those who didn't.

Republican politicians regularly churn out earnest policy wonkery and programs in the hope of raising more black children out of poverty. Black uplift remains an obsessive concern of white Republican philanthropists.

I can do the PR thing until the cows come home. That's my nature. I never want to upset anybody.

One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.

In America, black urban teenagers have long been lacking in inclusion. In France, there is a comparable lack of inclusion among North Africans. In much of Europe, there has been little attempt to include the Roma.

In the publishing sense, 'urban fantasy' does not mean 'black,' and that's pretty ironic, considering that it's a euphemism everywhere else. It would be great to get that back.

'All Def' is unlike any other comedy show or set because 'All Def' goes back to the essence of how urban comedy started. We give it a 'stoop appeal.' A stoop appeal is important for us because it's where pretty much all black comics started doing their standup: cracking jokes on the stoop, in the hood.

Of my two 'handicaps' being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.

Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.

I imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in blaxploitation movies. There was a much greater preponderance of work then than there is now.

There are so many stereotypes of how you have to be as a black man, growing up in the community as a man.

I think the stereotypes many black men are put under, even in the entertainment world, can sometimes have a dark or negative undertone.

I'm constantly fighting the angry black woman stigma, the 'You're pretty, you can't be funny' stigma.

It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.

When 'Jelly's' went out on tour, no one really wanted it. It was undersold. And I knew if I gave 'Noise' to someone else, they would sell it as 'Stomp' with little dancing black boys.