James Comey Quotes

We all, white and black, carry various biases around with us.

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• 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.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Believe
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Black
  • Freedom
  • Religious

• 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!

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Man
  • Black
  • You

• I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Like
  • Something
  • Say

• 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!

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Men
  • Black
  • Fashion

• Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • Black
  • Create
  • Segregation

• I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Men
  • Want
  • Black

• To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Black
  • Youth

• If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • Black
  • Born

• 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.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Black
  • Light
  • Darkness

• All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • People
  • Different
  • Man

• It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Black
  • Vote
  • Activity

• But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Game
  • Man
  • Black

• 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.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Book
  • History
  • Black

• 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.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Children
  • Black
  • Community

• Black is not a color.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Black
  • 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.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • Country
  • American
  • Bad

• 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.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Black
  • Baseball
  • Down

• Your shoes have to match your belt. That's rule number one for guys. You can't put the brown shoes with the black belt. Or a brown belt with a black wristwatch. Just don't do it! Also, I don't like boots with suits. And when you wear sneakers, make sure they go with your shirt.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • Black
  • Shoes

• I can't be in an environment that is not conducive to me as a black woman.

  

  Bozoma Saint John
  • Black
  • Environment

• People say we are survivors but I don't see us as survivors of anything. We are still here, there's nothing that's come and tried to dislodge us. We just go about our business.

  

  Dave Mason
  • People
  • Business

• In tribal Botswana, I received some woven necklaces and a handmade bow with three poison arrows. It's framed and hanging on the wall in my living room and is, without a doubt, one of my favorite possessions.

  

  Andrew Zimmern
  • Doubt
  • Wall
  • Framed

• Like, my house has a nice view, because, you know, I was on 'Friends.'

  

  Matthew Perry
  • Friends
  • House
  • Nice

• We all, white and black, carry various biases around with us.

  

  James Comey
  • Black