“Dizzee's just my childhood hero. He's definitely the inspiration. He's got himself to a very good place. He's defied the expectations of what British black urban music was like. He was the first person who made the rest of Britain realise it wasn't just a one-album-type situation. You've got to take your hat off to somebody like that.” FirstsPersonsMadeInspirationBlackSituationChildhoodTypeHeroExpectationsVery GoodAlbumsBritishBritainHatsRealisingUrbanFirst PersonGood PlaceHats OffUrban Music Author:Tinie Tempah
“Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write.” PeopleWritingCountryInspirationKidsActorsBlackMillionsPoetFlying Author:Russell Simmons
“In Europe I couldn't be anything but a black cook working for somebody. My inspiration was to own, to be the chef.” InspirationBlackEuropeCooksChef Author:Marcus Samuelsson
“It's ugly to compare but the greatest was Pele. If we believe that God made man, the "black" Pelé he made him perfect. He gave him everything. He lacked nothing, header, physical power, dribbling, finishing, inspiration, genius, temper, vision, goal. Everything.” IfsMenBelieveMadeInspirationGoalBlackPerfectVisionGeniusUglyCompareTemperFinishing Author:Cesar Luis Menotti
“You can't imagine hip-hop without the Black Panthers. Today, hopefully, the movement can be an inspiration to people. These were people who made mistakes but they were trying to change things.” PeopleTryingMadeInspirationTodayBlackMistakeImagineMovementHip HopHopefullyHipsHopsMade A MistakeTrying To ChangePanthersBlack Panther Author:Stanley Nelson Jr.
“The inspiration for this movie [Something New] was this Newsweek article that came out a couple of years ago that talks about 42.4 percent of black women in America aren't married. Black women are shooting up the corporate ladder way faster than our black male counterparts. And (black men) are either dating outside their race, in jail or dying. And so if you want to have a family, you want to be married, you have to look at other options.” IfsMenWayWantYearsLooksInspirationAmericaBlackRaceDyingCoupleMarriedPercentYears AgoDatingMalesFasterShootingCorporateSomething NewJailArticlesBlack WomenLaddersBeing MarriedCounterpartsBlack MalesShooting Up Author:Sanaa Lathan
“I saw how the Government was run there [in Africa] and I saw where black people were running the banks. I saw, for the first time in my life, a black stewardess walking through a plane and that was quite an inspiration for me.” PeopleFirstsInspirationGovernmentRunningBlackSawsWalkingFirst TimePlanesBlack PeopleStewardess Author:Fannie Lou Hamer
“A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.” InspirationalHumorRealityInspirationFunnyBlackAnimalPathCatCrossingsTotemsBlack CatSignifying Author:Groucho Marx