“I use a special tool. I make it myself; very sharp steel point and a handle like a pencil. For me it is a pencil. Maybe I have a special talent, a feeling you might say that lets me control it, to express my ideas as though I were sketching black on white.” IdeasUseFeelingsMightBlackWhiteSpecialTalentMaterialsToolsLet MeHandleSteelPencilsSketchingSpecial Talents Author:Ugo Mochi
“Let me state here and now that the black woman in America can justly be described as a 'slave of a slave.” StatesAmericaBlackLet MeSlaveBlack WomenHere And Now Author:Frances M. Beal
“Let me say this: I only expect the black media to uphold the standards of excellence in journalism and when you do that, you have to go in with a neutral mind.” MindBlackMediaStandardsLet MeExcellenceJournalism Author:Bill Cosby
“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
“I stop and think what they call "punk rock" today...give me a break! Let me know when they can walk in the vapor trail of Little Richard, which was punk. You've got a gay black guy with a pompadour singing about tutti frutti with your white girl. Fuck you.” ThinkingKnowsGivingLittlesTodayGuyGirlBlackWhiteWalksBreakRocksGaySingingLet MeGive MePunkTrailsPunk RockVaporBlack GuysWhite Girl Author:Ted Nugent
“Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another.” YearsMadeLyingBlackWhiteProgressPlanetsPeriodsLet MeFolksAfrican AmericanSpite Author:Dick Gregory
“I would never try and play like Harry James, because I don't like his tone - for me. It's just white. You know what I mean? He has what we black trumpet players call a white sound. But it's for white music ... I can tell a white trumpet player, just listening to a record. There'll be something he'll do that'll let me know that he's white.” KnowsTryingMeanI CanPlayFunnySoundBlackWhiteRecordsPlayerListeningLet MeToneTrumpetsJust Listen Author:Miles Davis
“I know when the anthrax thing hit - white people, y'all was very nervous. Y'all would come up to me at work and warn me, like 'Oh my God, Aries, be careful. Don't open your mail.' Let me tell you something - black folks was never worried about anthrax because, half the time, we don't open our mail no way. We might think that's a bill. We might hold it to the light and go, 'That's a red slip.' If you want to get us with anthrax, put that in a Jay-Z CD. That's how you get us.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWayWantLightMightBlackWhiteHalfRedLet MeBillsFolksCome UpCarefulNervousWorriedBe CarefulSlipsMailCdsAriesAnthrax Author:Aries Spears
“I have such a great thing I want to do with Lady Macbeth - make her one of the witches - and I have this whole thing where she's very light and dressed in pink and dancing Gaelic dances and throwing roses, but then when her husband's coming home, she does incantations and pulls her hair back, puts on a black leather trenchcoat. I mean, I could tear it up if somebody would give me the chance! But do you think someone would ever let me do Lady Macbeth? I doubt it. But I'm going to keep talking about it.” ThinkingGivingMeanHomeBlackChanceDoubtTearsLet MeDancingRoseGreat ThingsComing HomeWitchGaelic Author:Beth Grant
“When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the best game. And these guys, they'd let me play. And they were black guys.” PlayKidsGuyGamesCausesBlackLet MeHotelWaiterBlack Guys Author:Larry Bird
“Come away, come away, Death, And in sad cypress let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath, I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white stuck all with yew, O prepare it! My part of death no one so true did share it. Not a flower, not a flower sweet, On my black coffin let there be strewn: Not a friend, not a friend greet My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown. A thousand thousand sighs to save, lay me O where Sad true lover never find my grave, to weep there!” BlackWhitePoorShareSweetFlowerLoversThousandFairsLet MeBreathsLaysBonesStuckGravesThrownSighCorpsesMaidsCoffinsFly AwayShroudsTrue LoversCypressesTwelfth Night ImportantYew Author:William Shakespeare
“Then let me put it to you this way. There is seldom black and white in our world. Sometimes things we perceive as good have moments of profound evil, but profound evil will always tell you that it’s always good. It never admits that it could, in any way, be evil. (Alexion)” WorldWaySometimesMomentsEvilBlackWhiteLet MeProfoundPerceiveOur WorldBlack And White Book:Sins of the Night: A Dark-Hunter Novel Source: Sins of the Night: A Dark-Hunter Novel
“let me tell you what happens when you cook down the syrup of loss over the open fire of sorrow: it solidfies into something wlaw. not grief, like you'd expect, or even regret. no, it gets thick as paste, black as ash; yet it isn't until you dip a finger in and feel that sharp taste dissolving on your tounge that you realize this is angel in its purest form, unrefined; a substance to be weighed and measyred and spread.” FeelsHappensFormBlackRealizingLossGriefFireRegretLike YouSorrowTasteAngelLet MeFingersSpreadCooksSubstanceThickAshesDipDissolvingSyrup Author:Jodi Picoult
“Sam, that's a great concept. And maybe you believe it. But I'm black and I'm a lesbian, so let me tell you: From what I know? Personal experience? There are always lines.” KnowsBelieveBlackLinesConceptsLet MePersonal Experiences Author:Michael Grant
“The only tactic liberals have is to try to intimidate people into thinking that the Tea Party is racist. The Tea Party is not a racist movement, period! If it were, why would the straw polls keep showing that the black guy is winning? That's a rhetorical question. Let me state it: The black guy keeps winning.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingStatesGuyWinningBlackPartyMovementPeriodsLet MeTeaRacistTacticsPollsIntimidatingTea PartyStrawsRhetoricalBlack GuysRhetorical Question Author:Herman Cain
“For one quarter, Black Tiger lets me escape from my rotten existence for three glorious hours. Pretty good deal.” ThreeBlackHoursDealsExistenceLet MeGloriousQuartersTigersRotten Book:Ready Player One Source: Ready Player One
“Here's what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or a black woman moving into a subway entrance in Harlem. Turn me into something else, writers of the world. Make me Muslim, heretic, hermaphrodite. Put me into a crusader's armor, a cardinal's vestments. Let me feel the pygmy's heartbeat, the queen's breast, the torturer's pleasure, the Nile's taste, or the nomad's thirst. Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.” KnowsWorldFeelsMovingTurnsBlackPleasureTasteLet MeSouthJewQueensBreastsChicagoThirstBlack WomenHeartbeatArmorSubwayEntrancesCarolinaGreat WritersCardinalsHereticHarlemNomadSouth CarolinaTurn MeNileHermaphrodites Author:Pat Conroy
“Let me speak frankly: separate but equal is a fraud. It is the language that tried to push Rosa Parks to the back of the bus. It is the motif that determined that black and white people could not possibly drink from the same water fountain, eat at the same table or use the same toilets.” PeopleUseSpeakLanguageBlackWaterWhiteDrinkGayEqualLet MeTablesDeterminedParksBusFraudBlack And WhiteFountainToiletsGay MarriageRosaMotifsWater FountainSeparate But Equal Author:David Lammy