“I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person.” HumansPersonsChristianFatherBlackHuman BeingsHusbandBlack Person Author:David Oyelowo
“I like having black hair. When I was really young, I wanted to be Asian - Asian hair is beautiful. I also wanted to look like the girl in George Michael's 'Father Figure' video.” LooksWantedBeautifulYoungGirlFatherBlackFiguresHairVideoAsianFather FigureBlack Hair Author:Pauley Perrette
“We know what happens to little black boys that have no dads; we've heard that, we get it. But no one is really saying that young women who are born without fathers have real serious issues especially when their mother had no father and the mother has issues.” KnowsLittlesRealHappensYoungMotherFatherBlackBornBoysIssuesHeardSeriousDadYoung WomenSerious IssuesBlack Boy Author:Karrine Steffans
“I haven't done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and they are pretty young; so given the concepts that the film was about a superhero, it was a black superhero, and it was a father and son type partnership.” DoneKidsFilmYoungFatherGivenBlackCareersWatchesHavensSonTypeConceptsPartnershipSuperheroFather SonFather And Son Author:Blair Underwood
“What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?” IfsMenSufferingFatherBlackRightsDaughterOur Daughter Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.” MenWarFacesFatherBlackBandArmySalvationAtheistClubsMaskSkeletonsBrassSalvation ArmyBlack FaceBrass BandsRibald Author:A. E. Coppard
“We did an episode on Good Times which came out of a newspaper article about the incidence of hypertension in black males being higher than whites, and increasing. So we did a show in which James, the father on Good Times, had hypertension.” ShowsFatherBlackHigherMalesNewspapersGood TimesArticlesEpisodesIncidenceBlack MalesHypertension Author:Norman Lear
“I didn't like what was on TV in terms of sitcomsit had nothing to do with the color of themI just didn't like any of them. I saw little kids, let's say 6 or 7 years old, white kids, black kids. And the way they were addressing the father or the mother, the writers had turned things around, so the little children were smarter than the parent or the caregiver. They were just not funny to me. I felt that it was manipulative and the audience was looking at something that had no responsibility to the family.” WayYearsChildrenLittlesKidsMotherFatherFeltParentBlackTermWhiteResponsibilityAudienceSawsColorTvsSmarterLittle KidSitcomManipulativeCaregivers Author:Bill Cosby
“My definition of good is that you understand that this is a question of power. That you be willing to give up some power. That you be willing to give up some resources. That you be willing to pay Black people reparations for our years and years of service in this country. That you be willing to go home and tell your white mother and father about white racism and how it affects and kills Black people in our communities. That's my definition of good white people, and I haven't met any like that.” PeopleGivingYearsCountryHomeMotherFatherBlackCommunityWhitePayHavensWillingMetsGiving UpRacismResourcesDefinitionsBlack PeopleOur CommunityMother And FatherReparationsWhite RacismYears Of Service Author:Sister Souljah
“On the Black Sea, my father saw it begin. And on the Black Sea, seventy years on, I saw the beginning of its end.” YearsEndsFatherBlackSawsSeaSeventies Author:Neal Ascherson
“It's always seemed to me that black people's grace has been with what they do with language. In Lorrain, Ohio, when I was a child, I went to school with and heard the stories of Mexicans, Italians, and Greeks, and I listened. I remember their language, and a lot of it is marvelous. But when I think of things my mother or father or aunts used to say, it seems the most absolutely striking thing in the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldChildrenHas BeensStoriesSeemsSchoolRememberUsedMotherFatherLanguageBlackGraceHeardGreekBlack PeopleMarvelousAuntOhio Author:Toni Morrison
“As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts.” MotherFatherBlackPityFounding Author:Shirley Chisholm
“The street is as diverse as any other sector, but in peoples' mind it gets appropriated as a black man who's tough. Trying to make it through by staying hard and phallocentric. To me, that is just an impoverished conception of what it is to be a black male. It doesn't do justice to my grandfather, my father, my brother - or just the black men I grew up with.” MenTryingMindHardFatherBlackJusticeStreetsBrotherGrewGrew UpToughMalesMy BrotherStayingConceptionDiverseGrandfatherMy GrandfatherBlack Males Author:Cornel West
“Trouble comes looking for you. Lots of times I just stay in the house and enjoy my family. I try to be a father to my child, I'll stay out of trouble if I can, because I have lots to do. Other folks have different hardships. It's hard for a black man to raise a family.” IfsMenTryingChildrenI CanDifferentHardFatherHouseEnjoyBlackTroubleMy FamilyRaisesFolksMy ChildrenHardship Author:Snoop Dogg
“The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. In our hands it develops and changes, through more or less arbitrary and deliberate revisions and additions of our own, more or less directly occasioned by the continuing stimulation of our sense organs. It is a pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention. But I have found no substantial reasons for concluding that there are any quite black threads in it, or any white ones.” ReasonFactsHandsFoundFatherBlackWhiteSentencesGrayConventionsOrgansPaleThreadContinuingFabricDeliberateArbitraryOur FatherRevisionStimulationConcluding Book:The Ways of Paradox, and Other Essays Source: The Ways of Paradox, and Other Essays
“Growing up as a black kid with a white father who loves you, who affirms you, who was part of your life is fundamentally different than what black people in my family were subjected to in the 19th century or the 18th century. But unfortunately, it doesn't change the old racial order. I think we need to let the old racial order just stay where it is and not seek to improve upon it. Not try to create more racial categories, because all that does is it makes a race stick around longer.” PeopleThinkingNeedsTryingDoeDifferentKidsLife IsOrderFatherBlackWhiteRaceGrowing UpGrowingCenturyLove YouMy FamilySticksCategoriesBlack People19th Century18th Century Author:Benjamin Jealous
“My family is part Creole, and were Indian, and were also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.” FatherBlackMy FamilyBlueIndianCreole Author:Merry Clayton
“The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. A pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention.” FactsFatherBlackWhiteSentencesGrayConventionsPaleFabricOur Father Book:The Ways of Paradox, and Other Essays Source: The Ways of Paradox, and Other Essays
“Gamaun is a dainty steed, Strong, black, and of a noble breed, Full of fire, and full of bone, With all his line of fathers known; Fine his nose, his nostrils thin, But blown abroad by the pride within; His mane is like a river flowing, And his eyes like embers glowing In the darkness of the night, And his pace as swift as light.” LightEyeNightFatherStrongBlackLinesKnownDarknessFirePrideFineRiversHorseBonesNobleNosesHis EyesPaceGlowingEmbersDainty Author:Bryan Procter
“I've always thought it would be fun to update "Hansel and Gretel." I'd have these white parents in the suburbs with an income of fifty or sixty thousand dollars. Daddy loses his job, and the wicked stepmother says, "We could get along, we could keep our Mastercharge, if you'd just get rid of those shitty kids." Finally the father hires a limo and tells the driver, "Drop 'em off on Lenox Avenue in Harlem at two in the morning." These two little white kids land there. They're menaced. And this supposedly nice black lady says, "Would you like some candy?"” IfsLittlesTwoWould BeKidsJobsFatherFunParentBlackLosesWhiteMorningNiceLandThousandDollarsIncomeFiftyWickedEmsDriversSixtyCandyDaddyAvenuesSuburbsHarlemUpdatesStepmothersLimosHansel And GretelWicked Stepmothers Author:Stephen King
“I'm not thinking about forcing my kids to watch my movies. It's always awkward when someone says: "Hey, I wrote a song, can I play it for you?" That would be the dynamic, if I was like: "Hey, you're my son, watch my work!" I don't want to put them in that awkward position. Just because when they get older, that's when I'm worried, that they'll judge me and say: "Yeah, my father's ******* Jack Black. He was in that cheesy movie." So, I'm going to keep it all high quality. It'll be a quality controller.” IfsThinkingWantPlayHandsWould BeKidsSongFatherBlackQualityWatchesPositionSonJudgingMouthsYeahHeyWorriedMy SonAwkwardCheesyHigh QualityHey YouJudge MeControllers Author:Jack Black
“My mother's mother is Jewish and African, so I guess that would be considered Creole. My mother's father was Cherokee Indian and something else. My dad's mother's Puerto Rican and black, and his father was from Barbados.” Would BeMotherFatherBlackDadMy DadIndianBarbadosCherokeeCreoleCherokee Indian Author:Meagan Good
“It seems that people are more comfortable with the private outrage about gay marriage, because when you are outraged about this issue, it requires no work. There's no work that you have to do when you're outraged about a gay couple. There is work that you have to do if you want to see black fathers raise their children. There is work that you have to do if you want to see a school develop.” PeopleIfsWantChildrenSeemsSchoolFatherBlackIssuesCoupleGayComfortableRaisesGay MarriageOutrageOutragedGay Couples Author:Otis Moss III
“My dad was a complicated man. He was a huge racist, my dad, but he still tried to be a good father, you know? Like, he would tell me that Santa Claus was black - that way, when I found out he didn't exist, it wouldn't be that big a let down.” KnowsMenWayStillsHumorBigsFunnyFoundFatherBlackHugeDadMy DadComplicatedRacistSantaSanta ClausLet DownGood Father Author:Anthony Jeselnik
“Not only was Cain called upon to suffer, but because of his wickedness, he became the father of an inferior race. A curse was placed upon him and that curse has been continued through his lineage and must do so while time endures...” WorldFeelsHas BeensMadeSoulSufferingFatherBlackRaceMillionsMankindThis WorldBlessingSkinsEndurePrivilegeCurseDeniedInferiorsWickednessCursedInferiorityDescendantsPriesthoodCainLineageBlack Skin Author:Joseph Fielding Smith
“Just looking at me, I am a Black man. Born and bred, through and through. But I am also a lot of things. I am a father. I am a husband. I am a Christian. I am a comic book geek and I'm a creator.” MenBookChristianFatherBlackBornHusbandCreatorComicComic BookGeek Author:Kevin Grevioux
“My whole family was - we grew up in New York, but all my relatives and all my father and stepfather's family, they were all from the South. So I like that old Black voice, and I love the sort of old Black man with a corncob pipe, sitting there telling a whopper.” MenWholeFatherBlackVoiceNew YorkGrewGrew UpSittingSouthPipeWhole FamilyStepfathers Author:James McBride
“When my father would come home from the track after a good day, the whole room would light up; it was fairyland. But when he lost, it was black. In our house, it was always either a wake ... or a wedding.” WholeHomeLightFatherHouseLostBlackRoomsTrackComing HomeGood DayLight Up Author:Peter O'Toole