Black Quotes

'Drag Race' has become a staple of modern television for the way it skewers expectations and attitudes about gender, much as a show like 'black-ish' works to challenge stereotypes about black families in America.

Jenna Wortham
- America
- Black
- Challenge
A series of ever-decreasing splashes drip and plop into black water... thus the beginning of the film is reprised.

Peter Greenaway
- Black
- Water
- Beginning

If you don't know about the 'black male code,' you should. It's something black boys learn early, even before adolescence. It goes, in part, like this: Even though you're not a criminal, some people assume you are, especially if you're wearing certain clothes. Never argue with the police, but protect your dignity and take pride in humility.

Donna Brazile
- People
- Pride
- Police
The problem is that television executives have got it into their heads that if one presenter on a show is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed heterosexual boy, the other must be a black Muslim lesbian.

Jeremy Clarkson
- Boy
- Blue
- Blonde
The outside world is black and white with only one color dead.

Peter Gabriel Genesis
- World
- Color
- Controversy
All people - white, black, whatever - are tribal in the sense that we relate to that which is familiar to us.

Christopher Priest
- People
- Black
I do not feel inhibited or bound by what I am. That does not mean that I have never had bad scenes relating to being Black and/or a woman, it means that other people’s craziness has not managed to make me crazy.

Lucille Clifton
- People
- Bad
- Mean
People like to blame Mexican food, but look at what's happening globally, look at all the fast foods and products filled with trans fat. Before the Mexican Revolution, a hundred years ago, people were eating what now macrobiotics tells us to eat, corn, black beans, rice. That's what people were eating - and chile peppers. That's a healthy diet. And also they ate a lot of vegetables.

Sandra Cisneros