“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