Michael Jackson Quotes

I know my race. I just look in the mirror. I know I'm black.

Michael Jackson

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• Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Life
  • Black
  • Running

• I identify with the Clint Eastwoods and Harrison Fords. Those are my heroes.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Heroes
  • Identify
  • Clint

• Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Black
  • Opinion
  • Heavy-Metal

• Do I feel that white directors have to tell only white stories? No. Do I feel that black filmmakers should only tell stories about black people? No. If we say that, then that means Asian people cannot write about anybody but Asians. I don't think a woman should only write about women.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Women
  • Black

• On the weekends, I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Great
  • Football
  • Wall

• So now I feel I'm lucky in the respect that I can sort of pick a little more carefully, which is tricky because as a black actress, there aren't that many roles to pick from.

  

  Rachel True
  • Black
  • Respect
  • Lucky

• 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

• 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

• One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Black
  • Day
  • Preparation

• 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

• Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Black
  • Hands

• The black community is my community - the LGBT community, too, and the female community. That is my community. That's me; it's who I am.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Community
  • Female
  • LGBT

• My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a white woman, which meant she could pass - as folks used to say back then. Her hair was jet-black. She was slim and very attractive.

  

  Ice T
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Black

• There's not too many rich black people in this world.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • People
  • World
  • Black

• Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Black
  • Color
  • Black-and-white

• One of my favorite - well, my favorite, favorite, absolute favorite event to go to is Alfre Woodard has a party that I call the blacktress party. It's, like, black actresses that either have been nominated for an Oscar or should have been, and it sort of is just a night where we all get in a room and we get to celebrate each other.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Night
  • Black
  • Party

• In the depths of the moor, the peat may be seen riven like floes of ice, and the rifts are sometimes twelve to fourteen feet deep, cut through black vegetable matter, the product of decay of plants through countless generations.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • May
  • Black
  • Deep

• Poitier opened the doors to so many artists, not just black artists. There is a line that goes from black to Latin to Asian with regards to roles.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Black
  • Artists
  • Latin

• The studios gotta start making more stuff where black folks get quality stuff. But I can't trip about that because I've been making movies for 35 years, and I've played everything from an old lady to a donkey, so I can't be on here talking about, 'They don't give us enough roles' and diversity.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Black
  • Quality
  • Diversity

• Don't laugh at a hair joke, Trump.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • Hair
  • Trump

• President Obama is the best-known politician to be exploring the possibilities of new technologies to converse with the people. Others must follow his lead and innovate. It is inevitable.

  

  Eduardo Paes
  • People

• The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the principle which has in fact been followed throughout, the principle of one man one job, of minding one s own business , in the sense of doing the job for which one is naturally fitted and not interfering with other people.

  

  Plato
  • Business
  • Job
  • Wisdom

• Antichrist is the pope and the Turk Muslim together. A beast full of life must have a body and soul. The spirit or soul of Antichrist is the pope, his flesh or body the Turk.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Pope

• I know my race. I just look in the mirror. I know I'm black.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Black
  • Mirror