“Human beings go to church. The guy in the front dressed in black is the guy you defer to. He is in charge of the mysteries of universe, which ordinary human beings don't seem to have the inclination to understand.” HumansSeemsGuyHumanityUniverseBlackChurchHuman BeingsMysteryFrontsBuddhismOrdinaryInclination Author:Frederick Lenz
“I think my wife saw a picture of the rock group Journey, and they're kind of aging, and the one guy had dyed blonde hair with black roots, and... my idea was to get a little earring, I wanted to have a dangling earring.” ThinkingKindLittlesIdeasWantedGuyBlackSawsWifeGroupsJourneyRocksHairRootsAgingMy WifeBlondeEarringsBlonde Hair Author:Fred Willard
“We were living in a tumultuous time, when the world was upside down. Freeman produced a show that was black and white, the good guys versus the bad guys.” WorldShowsGuyBlackWhiteBlack And WhiteVersusBad GuysUpside DownGood GuyFreemanWorld Upside Down Author:James MacArthur
“You never want to be the whitest-sounding black guy in a room.” WantGuyBlackRoomsBlack Guys Author:Jordan Peele
“I'd been on a road trip right out of college, with a buddy of mine. It was uneventful. We didn't get laid. Although one time it was about 800 degrees and we were in Texas. We had shorts on and nothing else and somehow a motorcycle cop pulls up beside me and says, 'Come on, get on it, get on, go, go, go!' So I speeded up and it turns out we're in a huge state funeral. There are about 40 black Cadillacs in a row and then a green van called Mr Greenjeans, with two guys with no clothes in it.” TwoStatesGuyTurnsBlackMinesCollegeHugeDegreesClothesGreenTexasFuneralOne TimeCopVansBuddyMotorcycleShortsRoad TripGetting LaidCadillacsPull UpsTwo Guys Author:John Travolta
“I'm not one of these guys to do my solo stuff one night and Black Sabbath the next. I can't do that, you know. It's too much to handle.” KnowsI CanNightGuyNextStuffBlackToo MuchHandleSoloOne NightSabbathBlack Sabbath Author:Ozzy Osbourne
“Black Sabbath wasn't like the Bon Jovis of the time. We were just a bunch of guys that were against the grain of society. And we sung about things that people thought back then.” PeopleGuyBlackBunchGrainSabbathBlack Sabbath Author:Ozzy Osbourne
“A Murphy [Eddie Murphy] movie is like a Sidney Poitier comedy - he's that intensely good... He revolutionized acting. He's literally black Brando. Before Eddie Murphy, there were two schools of acting for a black actor: Either you played it LIKE THIS or youplayeditlahkdis. He was the first black guy in a movie to talk like I am talking right now. That did not exist for black actors before him.” FirstsTwoSchoolGuyActorsBlackActingTalkingComedyRight NowMurphyBrandoBlack Guys Author:Scott Raab
“It wasn't about Larry Holmes, if I would have fought a brother I wouldn't have gotten the money I got. Give me 10 black guys and I make eight dollars. Give me Gerry Cooney and I make $10 million.” IfsGivingGuyBlackMillionsBrotherGive MeDollarsEightLarryHolmesBlack Guys Author:Larry Holmes
“I consider myself a pretty rounded guy. I've done pretty elite things in business, sport and academics and all of a sudden I woke up one morning and I'm a 'big, black, British, gay guy'. That was frustrating at times.” DoneBigsGuySportsBlackMorningGayBritishElitesFrustratingGay Guy Author:John Amaechi
“Holyfield won the fight. It's not the first time Romney has been knocked out by a black guy.” FirstsHas BeensGuyFightingBlackFirst TimeRomneyBlack Guys Author:David Letterman
“It's amazing that people still feel, 'Oh my gosh, it's a black guy.' We've been here for a long time; let's get used to it. Let's get used to other cultures.” PeopleFeelsLongStillsUsedGuyCultureBlackLong TimeOther CulturesOh My GoshBlack Guys Author:John Boyega
“My ideal kinda guy, if I was really gonna go there even though he's married, is Mark Wahlberg. To me he's a little black and white, the kinda guy who would understand if I pull my weave out.” IfsLittlesGuyBlackWhiteMarriedIdealsMarkBlack And White Author:Toni Braxton
“Let's give it up for the Secret Service. I don't want to be too hard on those guys. You know, because they're the only law enforcement agency that will get in trouble if a black man gets shot.” IfsKnowsMenWantGivingHardLawGuyBlackSecretTroubleShotsAgencyLaw EnforcementEnforcementSecret Service Author:Cecily Strong
“I was the girl in the black leather jacket with the black fingernails, picked up after school by guys with loud cars and motorcycles. I carried straight-A grades, but I had a little trouble with rules. I tended to have a bit of an authority problem.” LittlesProblemSchoolGuyGirlBitsBlackTroubleCarAuthorityLoudGradesJacketsLeatherMotorcycleFingernailsAfter SchoolLeather Jackets Author:Melissa Marr
“I have no problem dressing up . . . because I know I'm a nice-looking guy. But as far as chains, I definitely feel that's a racial statement. Almost 100% of the guys in the league who are young and black wear big chains. So I definitely don't agree with that at all.” KnowsFeelsProblemBigsYoungGuyBlackNiceAgreeStatementsChainsLeagueNo ProblemDressingsDressing Up Author:Stephen Jackson
“A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'” SaidPlayGuyAsksBlackBirdAsk MeFrighteningLarryBlack Guys Author:Magic Johnson
“Port Talbot is a steel town, where everything is covered with gray iron ore dust. Even the beach is completely littered with dust, it's just black. The sun was setting, and it was quite beautiful. The contrast was extraordinary, I had this image of a guy sitting there on this dingy beach with a portable radio, tuning in these strange Latin escapist songs like 'Brazil.' The music transported him somehow and made his world less gray.” WorldMadeBeautifulGuySongBlackSunStrangeSittingTownsExtraordinaryRadioSettingSettingsDustBeachIronLatinCoveredGrayContrastSteelPortBrazilTuningEscapistsIron Ore Author:Terry Gilliam
“My plays are for the kind of black people who relate to funk music, to Parliament-Funkadelic. When those guys get out of a spaceship - the idea that black people are from outer space, theres a poetic truth to that. We are this vast people.” PeopleKindIdeasPlayGuyBlackSpaceRelatePoeticBlack PeopleParliamentSpaceshipsOuter SpaceFunk Author:Suzan-Lori Parks
“While, as I recall, conservative little boys practice quick draw with their cap guns while playing cowboys and Indians, apparently liberal little boys practice how fast they can throw up their hands to surrender to the guys in the black hats.” LittlesHandsGuyBlackBoysPracticeDrawsGunConservativeSurrenderHatsRecallsCowboyCapsLittle BoysBlack Hats Author:Tony Blankley
“It's barely OK for me to be dressed up as a black guy. But part of me kind of enjoys provoking people.” PeopleKindGuyEnjoyBlackProvokingDressed UpBlack Guys Author:Chris Lilley
“I don't remember any impression [from blues].The blues was just everywhere in the Mississippi Delta. It was mostly black sharecroppers living there, and there was a lot of blues around. Sometimes the guys would sing the blues in the fields, working.” SometimesRememberGuyBlackFieldsImpressionMississippiDeltaMississippi Delta Author:Mose Allison
“According to today's Los Angeles Times, Gray Davis now gets negative job ratings from white people, black people, Latinos, Republicans, Independents and even Democrats. Say what you want about the guy but he's a uniter!” PeopleWantTodayJobsGuyBlackWhiteRepublicanNegativeDemocratWhat You WantLos AngelesGrayBlack PeopleLatinoRating Author:Jay Leno
“I appreciate the female foot, but I've never said that I have a foot fetish. But I am a lower track guy. I like legs' I like booties'. I have a black male sexuality.” SaidGuyBlackFeetFemaleAppreciateMalesTrackLegsSexualityFetishBootyBlack MalesGuy I Like Author:Quentin Tarantino
“Socially, hip-hop has done more for racial camaraderie in this country than any one thing. 'Cause guys like me, my kids - everyone under 45 either grew up loving hip-hop or hating hip-hop, but everyone under 45 grew up very aware of hip-hop. So when you're a white kid and you're listening to this music and you're being exposed to it every day on MTV, black people become less frightening. This is just a reality. What hip-hop has done bringing people together is enormous.” PeopleCountryDoneRealityKidsTogetherGuyHateCausesBlackWhiteOne ThingListeningGrewGrew UpHip HopEnormousLike MeHipsHopsBlack PeopleExposedFrighteningMtvCamaraderie Author:Michael Rapaport
“For me the music community was always like a model for what could be. The way people would play together, just harmony and being - old guys and young guys, black guys and white guys. It was setting an example for what the rest of us could be.” PeopleWayPlayTogetherYoungGuyBlackCommunityWhiteExampleModelsHarmonySettingSettingsWhite GuysOld GuysYoung GuysBlack GuysBeing OldSetting An Example Author:Bill Frisell
“I didn't want any middle-of-the-road creep. I always wanted the toughest guy in school, the guy from south Philly who wore tight black pants. Y'know, the guy who carried the umbrella and wore white shirts with real thin black ties. I was really nuts over this guy named Butchie Magic 'cause he let me carry his switchblade.” KnowsWantRealWantedSchoolGuyCausesBlackWhiteMagicMiddleLet MeSouthShirtsTiesNutsPantsThis GuyCreepsUmbrellaMiddle Of The RoadWhite ShirtsBlack Tie Author:Patti Smith
“Bill Clinton is a liar, a perverted kind of a guy anyway, and he is always stroking black folks rather than telling them the truth.” KindGuyBlackBillsClintonFolksLiars Author:Tucker Carlson
“Why is it that it's okay to call a white person "mate" yet it's not okay to call a black guy "primate"?” PersonsHumorFunnyGuyBlackWhiteOkayMatesPrimatesNot OkayBlack Guys Author:Frankie Boyle
“I was arrested and put in murder's row. They were trying to get me for some murders I didn't do. They had me in a cell next to Charles Manson; he was going to trial at the time. And it was all a row of black and brown guys and one white guy: Charles Manson.” TryingGuyNextBlackWhiteMurderTrialsCellsBrownArrestedWhite GuysManson Author:Luis J. Rodriguez
“When you see a black guy on TV, he's always a thug or always portrayed as someone that's in trouble. It spreads the message to everyone else that that's who we are. People often don't try to understand black men as a whole. We're creative, strong and influential.” PeopleMenTryingWholeGuyStrongBlackCreativeTroubleTvsMessagesSpreadWho We AreInfluentialThugBlack Guys Author:Thomas Jones
“Prince is king to me. As this half-naked, short black guy who looked like a girl in the 70s and 80s, he was talking about women in a way that was very unusual because he didn't objectify them.” WayGuyGirlBlackHalfTalkingKingsNakedUnusual80sBlack Guys Author:Robyn
“I voted for the black guy, and what we got was the white guy” GuyBlackWhiteWhite GuysBlack Guys Author:Michael Moore
“I'll give you an example. Henry, the old black guy who cooks the corn bread, he worked on the railroads for about 20 years so he knows how to lay and build track.” KnowsGivingYearsGuyBlackKnow HowExampleLaysTrackBreadCooksCornCornyRailroadsBlack Guys Author:Marc Singer
“I really am a guy who can be black and white. I don't understand, too much, the gray. And truly I can go from one type of character to another type of character.” I CanCharacterGuyBlackWhiteToo MuchTypeGrayBlack And White Author:Jean-Claude Van Damme
“It was shocking to see Nirvana play, because it was like, "Here's this little guy with a monster-guitar sound." And it was heavier than Black Sabbath. That was shocking.” LittlesPlayGuySoundBlackGuitarMonstersShockingSabbathBlack SabbathGuitar Sound Author:Billy Corgan
“When people nowadays say that Elvis was the first white guy to sound black, I have to shake my head; what can you do? At the time of 'That's My Desire' 1947 they were saying that I was the only white guy around who sounded black.” PeopleFirstsDesireGuySoundBlackWhiteShakesWhite Guys Author:Frankie Laine
“You can have a wrestling idea, but you need to have these momentum-shifting moves. We had the Hulkamania movement, then it shifted to the beer-drinking, Stone Cold era, we reinvented the business with growing the black beard and becoming the bad guy, what's that next level.” NeedsIdeasMovingGuyNextBlackLevelsGrowingMovementColdBecomingStonesDrinkingErasBeerWrestlingBad GuysShiftingMomentumBeardNext LevelBeer DrinkingStone Cold Author:Hulk Hogan
“I am more than a black guy. I am a person, I'm storyteller, I'm a son, I'm a friend, so I am all those things so it is frustrating to a degree to be limited by other people's perceptions of me but at the same time, it is true that I am a black guy and it's like I'm rooted in, but not bound by. That sort of mentality, that's the one that I hold to be true.” PeoplePersonsGuyBlackSonDegreesPerceptionBoundsBeing TrueMentalityRootedStorytellerFrustratingBlack Guys Author:Justin Simien
“It is frustrating having to walk through America having to bob and weave people's impressions of me because they see a tall, black guy walking down the street. That is frustrating.” PeopleAmericaGuyBlackWalksStreetsWalkingImpressionTallBobFrustratingBlack Guys Author:Justin Simien
“You're not a Black man. You're a human being in God's eyes. So when you sit down to talk to someone and you talk to them in really intelligent terms, you ask difficult questions, there's a militancy that's assigned to you without you asking for it, because you are simply judged by what you look like. If you're a white person asking the same questions, you'd be one of these CNN guys and say how brilliant he is. That doesn't work for you, because this is the world we live in.” IfsMenWorldHumansLooksPersonsEyeGuyAsksDifficultBlackTermHuman BeingsWhiteIntelligentAskingBrilliantJudgedWithout YouCnnDifficult QuestionsMilitancy Author:James McBride
“You have a white guy as an announcer and sportscaster. Me, I'm black. I do it and I've already done some stuff in the past. We're more expressive than the white guys. You look at the skill players. We're the ones that get into the end zone. We get in the end zone more than they do.” LooksEndsDonePastGuyStuffBlackWhitePlayerSkillsZoneExpressiveWhite GuysAnnouncers Author:Terrell Owens