“I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are not black or white, they are in the large space that exists between.” WritingCharacterBlackSpaceWhiteDecisionAmbitionDrivenLustFlawedBlack Or White Author:Kevin James
“You could analyze me and say that my father leaving and being absent was a motivator for early ambition, trying to prove myself to this apparition who had vanished. You could argue that me being a mixed kid in a place where there weren't a lot of black kids around might have spurred on my ambitions. You could go through a whole litany of things that sparked me wanting to do something important.” TryingImportantWholeMightKidsFatherBlackProveAmbitionLeavingArguingAbsentMy AmbitionProve MyselfApparitionsFather Leaving Author:Barack Obama
“There is still a fundamental misunderstanding, when it comes to observing that when someone is black and someone is white, then that difference is enough to warrant the idea that they shouldn't be together. We are so much more alike in nature than we are different, and my ambition with the roles I choose to do is to break down that prejudice, by showing how much I - as a man - am just a man.” MenStillsIdeasDifferentEnoughTogetherBlackDifferencesWhiteRolesBreakAmbitionPrejudiceFundamentalsBreaking DownMisunderstandingObservingMy AmbitionWarrants Author:David Oyelowo
“America is capable at single moments of receiving the depth and the breadth of the homiletical vision of black America when a black preacher rises to his or her craft at the height of his or her ambition and the desire to tell America the truth.” MomentsAmericaDesireBlackVisionAmbitionCapableDepthCraftsHeightReceivingPreacherSingle MomBreadthBlack America Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“O.J. Simpson existed in a bubble. So when Harry Edwards approached him about being involved in the Olympic Project for Human Rights, O.J.'s response was, famously, "I'm not black - I'm O.J." O.J. had ambitions to be famous, rich and liked by everyone, and I think he understood that being political and militant as a black athlete was not a way to engender universal love.” ThinkingPoliticalBlackRichAmbitionResponseHuman RightsAthleteBubblesMilitant Author:Ezra Edelman
“Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.” KnowsLoveHappensTogetherBlackWhiteOne ThingMankindAmbitionChineseMy AmbitionReggaeBlack WhiteReggae MusicRastaJamaican Music Author:Bob Marley
“I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black,...an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.” IfsBlackWaterAmbitionFeministCarefulOilCertaintyCombinationInsecurityLazinessPessimistOil And Water Author:Octavia Butler
“I'm a 48-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer. I'm also comfortably asocial -- a hermit in the middle of Los Angeles -- a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.” IfsYearsRememberBlackWaterMiddleAmbitionFeministCarefulOilCertaintyFormerCombinationSomedayInsecurityLos AngelesLazinessPessimistBaptistsHermitsOil And Water Author:Octavia Butler