William Julius Wilson Quotes

Black professors make more than white professors. That's because we are in demand. I'll tell you, give me two blacks in institutions of higher learning, one has a Ph.D. from an elite institution and has a certain publication record. You give me a white scholar with the same credentials, and I will take that black scholar.

William Julius Wilson

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• There's such a strong community element in country - it's like a family. So I don't want to do anything that can come off, even if I'm not intentionally doing it, as giving the perception that I'm trying to abandon that family.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Family

• Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • People
  • Great
  • Black

• Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Giving
  • Me
  • Something

• Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Black
  • Looks
  • Black-and-white

• 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

• College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Experience
  • Black
  • College

• I don't have an objective overview of Black Sunday.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Black
  • Sunday
  • Objective

• Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Black
  • Opinion
  • Heavy-Metal

• Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I love to drive in the Black Hills of Wyoming and South Dakota with Mount Rushmore as the central stop.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Love
  • Black
  • Stop

• The less I talk about being black, the better.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Black
  • Better
  • Talk

• When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Long
  • Mother
  • Black

• There is some group of Americans who are really, really curious to understand how we ended up at this point, where every week it seems like you can turn on your TV and see some sort of abuse being heaped on black people.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Up
  • Black

• It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Black
  • Vote
  • Activity

• Jack Black is so funny! On and off screen, like, he would make you laugh every day. He's hilarious.

  

  Caitlin Hale
  • Black
  • Funny
  • Day

• 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

• I've been fascinated by the Internet from the very start. In 2001, I had made a funny black-and-white film called 'How to Dance Properly,' a short video of me dancing to a Madonna song. I sent it to 17 of my friends on a Thursday, and by Monday, one million people a day were logging on to view it.

  

  Ze Frank
  • People
  • Friends
  • Song

• I don't know David Cameron very well. I like him. I think you can judge a book by its cover - whoever said you can't is wrong - that's the whole point of nature giving us intuition, instinct and so on. I think the cover is pretty good.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Good
  • Book
  • Nature

• The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.

  

  Boris Vian
  • Music
  • Black

• I never take storms as seriously as I should, which is probably not the way I should be handling it. I think it's to do with growing up in New Orleans and having a hurricane, like, once a week.

  

  Chloe Bridges
  • Up
  • Growing

• It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

  

  Jean Nidetch
  • Destiny

• The outlook for Georgia, I'm pleased to say, is good.

  

  George Benson
  • Good
  • Georgia

• Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it accumulated within itself.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Christianity
  • Drugs
  • Consolations

• Black professors make more than white professors. That's because we are in demand. I'll tell you, give me two blacks in institutions of higher learning, one has a Ph.D. from an elite institution and has a certain publication record. You give me a white scholar with the same credentials, and I will take that black scholar.

  

  William Julius Wilson
  • Black
  • Giving
  • Scholar