“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
“My daddy was a carpenter that worked with the Jones boys, who are the most notorious in America. The black gangsters, you know, they were no joke. And he was their master carpenter. He used to build their homes, and all I saw when I was 11 years old were dead bodies and tommy guns and stogies, and backrooms, you know, Drexel Wine and Liquor, with the big piles of money underneath.” KnowsYearsHomeBodyBigsAmericaUsedBlackBoysSawsMastersJokesGunWineDaddyLiquorGangstersCarpenterNotorious Author:Quincy Jones
“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
“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
“Brown people and black people and red people swarmed through our great halls, until those who were white looked simply faded-out human beings beside them. Indeed, I came to see that white is not a color in skin any more than in textiles, and if it had not quality, it had no value even for humanity. I saw that color in skin had a certain advantage in strength and warmth as a means of beauty.” PeopleIfsHumansMeanCertainValuesHumanityBlackHuman BeingsWhiteQualitySawsColorRedAdvantageSkinsBrownHallsWarmthBlack PeopleFadedTextiles Book:Yesterdays in a Busy Life Source: Yesterdays in a Busy Life
“As for those deserters, malcontents, radicals, incendiaries, the civil and uncivil disobedients among the young, SDS, PLP, Weathermen I and Weathermen II, the revolutionary action movement, the Black United Front, Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, Lions and Tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for a single platoon of the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.” KindWholeActionYoungBlackUnitedSawsFrontsMovementRadicalDamnRevolutionaryLionsVietnamTigersHippieZoosPanthersBlack PantherWeathermenMalcontentUnited Front Book:The real Spiro Agnew: commonsense quotations of a household word Source: The real Spiro Agnew: commonsense quotations of a household word
“During the 19th-century struggle for womens rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.” PeopleAmericaBlackStruggleSawsRightsCenturyCompetitionBlack PeopleWomens Rights19th CenturyRights In America Author:Karen DeCrow
“The stone in quarries is found to be of different and unlike qualities. In some it is soft, in others it is medium, in still others it is hard as in lava quarries. There are also numerous other kinds: for instance, in Campania, red and black tufas; in Umbria, Picenum, and Venetia, white tufa which can be cut with a toothed saw like wood.” KindStillsDifferentHardFoundBlackWhiteQualitySawsCuttingRedStonesWoodsMediumsInstanceLavaQuarryUmbriaRed And Black Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
“I just hate when things get labeled as "black movies." I don't say, "Oh, this weekend, I want to see an all-white movie," or "I want to see a black movie." I just go to a movie because I saw the previews and I relate to it. I want to see it because the previews look interesting.” WantLooksHateBlackWhiteInterestingSawsI HateRelateWeekendPreviewBlack Movie Author:Taraji P. Henson
“There was a time when black and navy blue suits were pretty much everything you saw. That has completely changed. People are wearing big checks, checks with browns and blues and shades of gray, and the scale is very large, and some of them are very bold with heavy contrasts.” PeopleBigsBlackSawsChangedBlueHeavyScalesChecksSuitsGrayShadeContrastNavyShades Of GrayNavy Blue Author:Patrick Grant
“I decided to become an actor at five. I saw the most gorgeous woman that I had ever seen in my five years of living on television. She had on a long, red dress and her eyelashes looked like butterflies and I said, "Grandmamma, who is that?" She said, "Baby, that's Lola Falana." I said, "That's it right there. I want to be black, fabulous, and on TV."” WantYearsLongSaidActorsBlackFiveSawsTelevisionTvsBabyRedDecidedDressesFive YearsButterflyFabulousGorgeousLiving OnEyelashesLike A ButterflyGorgeous Women Author:Niecy Nash
“Master Michelangelo once said that 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.' This is what we must do when we see an ignorant man: To set him free from the black marble we call ignorance!” MenSaidBlackSawsIgnoranceMastersAngelIgnorantMarble Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan