James Comey Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
We believe it is comprehensive international sanctions against the white regime that will save us from the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of South Africans, black and white.
-
I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
-
The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
-
I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
-
At fashion shows, my brows often get bleached, and they've been dyed back much darker - like jet black, where you can't even see my skin. Sometimes with Just for Men! What a mistake. At times, the two brows aren't even the same color!
-
I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!
-
To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.
-
If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.
-
There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce.
-
All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.
-
It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.
-
But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever.
-
In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
-
In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.
-
Black is not a color.
-
One of the things that I like about 'Narcos' is that not only Pablo but with all the characters - this is not a black and white show. This is not a regular American cop show where two cool cops go to save a country from a bad guy. All the characters are very complex.
-
The black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball. I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime.
-
I'm not familiar particularly with Hillary Clinton's neighborhood, but I wish people were a little bit more curious about what we call privilege and about why it's there. Black people in this country have no choice but to be curious. We have to know. I wish folks would do a little bit more investigation.
-
At pivotal moments throughout history, there have always been grey areas, and there likely will be in the future. Courage now lies not in the black and white, as in the past, but in the grey.
-
I believe that if we could see the chapters that are missing from the book [The Autobiography of Malcolm X], we would gain an understanding as to why perhaps - perhaps - the F.B.I., the C.I.A., the New York Police Department and others in law enforcement greatly feared what Malcolm X was about, because he was trying to build a broad - an unprecedented black coalition across the lines of black nationalism and integration. And in way, it presages 30 years ahead of time, the Million Man March.
-
Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain. Painless preaching is as good a term as any for what we do. If you're going to come away from a party singing the lyrics of a song, it is better that you sing of self-pride like 'We're a Winner' instead of 'Do the Boo-ga-loo!'
-
I believe that a great character can be made in one scene, or a few moments.
-
I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
-
We all, white and black, carry various biases around with us.
