“I have my great grandmother's recipe for black beans, all the way from Cuba, and I know how to make those. I'm actually pretty good at it now. But my first time, the beans actually exploded in the pot, so I had black beans just dripping from the ceiling - which is actually a dream come true for most Cubans. It was a nightmare to clean.” KnowsWayFirstsDreamBlackKnow HowFirst TimeCleanGrandmotherNightmarePotRecipesDreams Come TrueCubaCeilingsBeansCubanDrippingGreat Grandmother Author:Danny Pino
“We have two nations, and it's not black or white. It's red and blue. Under Republican leadership, cities tend to do better. Cities are destroyed under Democrats, because they don't know how to deal with the constituency; they're terrified.” KnowsTwoNationsBlackWhiteDealsCitiesKnow HowRepublicanRedBlueDemocratDestroyedTerrifiedBlack Or WhiteTwo NationsRed And Blue Author:Greg Gutfeld
“You know how we'd get along better? If everybody'd just remember how we're all related. White, black, Asian, skin. No difference. All the bloodlines go back to that one old mama in Africa.” IfsKnowsRememberBlackDifferencesWhiteKnow HowSkinsRelatedAsianMamaBloodline Book:The Onion Girl Source: The Onion Girl
“The system knows how to cherry pick black people. It's like affirmative action - once a year, one is recognized. But what has to occur is self-emergence so if they ignore you, you don't have to disappear.” PeopleIfsKnowsYearsSelfActionBlackKnow HowPicksDisappearBlack PeopleCherriesEmergenceAffirmative ActionAffirmativeYear One Author:Haile Gerima
“When my film went to the Venice Film Festival and won the best script writing, the jury [prize], it didn't go to my head. I know how many black filmmakers that I am operating with whose name will never be mentioned. But I'm part of them in that silent existence.” KnowsWritingFilmNamesBlackExistenceKnow HowSilentScriptsFilmmakerPrizeFestivalsJuryVeniceFilm Festivals Author:Haile Gerima
“some journalists have described the South Pole as 'hell on earth.' Others refer to my time here as 'an ordeal.' They would be surprised to know how beautiful Antarctica has seemed to me, with its waves of ice in a hundred shades of blue and white, its black winter sky, its ecstatic wheel of stars. They would never understand how the lights of the Dome welcomed me from a distance, or how often I danced and sang and laughed here with my friends. And how I was not afraid.” KnowsLightWould BeEarthBeautifulStarsBlackWhiteKnow HowHellSkyHundredMy FriendsBlueDistanceSouthWinterWaveIceJournalistMy TimeWheelsShadeLaughedNot AfraidEcstaticHell On EarthOrdealsDomesAntarcticaBlue And WhiteShades Of Blue Author:Jerri Nielsen
“Life is just like a book. Only after you've read it do you know how it ends. It is when we are at the end of life that we know how our life ran. Mine, until now, has been black. As black as my skin. Black as the garbage dump where I live.” KnowsLifeHas BeensBookEndsLife IsBlackKnow HowOur LivesMinesSkinsLive LifeRanDo You KnowGarbageDumpEnd Of Life Book:Beyond All Pity Source: Beyond All Pity
“I do not know how the affair at Canterbury is generally considered; but I have heard individuals of all parties and all opinions speak of it and never without merriment or indignation. Fifty years hence, the black laws of Connecticut will be a greater source of amusement to the antiquarian, than her famous blue laws.” KnowsYearsLawIndividualSpeakBlackPartyOpinionKnow HowGreaterHeardSourceBlueAffairFiftyAmusementIndignationConnecticutMerrimentCanterbury Author:Lydia M. Child
“You know how Mexican restaurants always have "border" in the name: Border Grill, Border Cafe. You wouldn't do that to black people: Kunta's Kitchen or Shackles. They don't do it to white people. You don't see the Honkey Grill, the Cracker Barrel... oh, nevermind.” PeopleKnowsHumorFunnyNamesBlackWhiteKnow HowBordersKitchenRestaurantsBlack PeopleMexicanBarrelsShacklesCafesCrackersNevermind Author:George Lopez
“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
“George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.” KnowsMadeEvilBlackWhiteMistakeMoralKnow HowRegimesBlack And WhiteSaddamHusseinMade A MistakeLeftistsAbsolutismMoral Absolutism Book:Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left Source: Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left