“Genetically, I'm pure Greek. Psychologically, environmentally, culturally, by choice, I'm a member of the black community.” ChoicesBlackCommunityPureMembersGreekBlack Community Author:Johnny Otis
“Hypocrisy versus authenticity among men is not always so black and white, and as is righteousness, humility is often self-proclaimed. The Church is most definitely supposed to be a hospital for the spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and physically sick, hurting, and broken individual, yet ironically, many of its critics are those who ran away and permanently denounced its members after they visited and felt that they were sneezed on.” MenSelfIndividualFeltBlackHurtChurchWhiteHumilityBrokenMembersSickCriticsAuthenticitySupposed To BeRanHypocrisyRighteousnessHospitalsBlack And WhiteVersus Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“Traditionally, I have no right to talk about race. I'm white; I didn't grow up in an all-black neighborhood. But the license I see for myself is I'm a member of the world.” WorldGrowsBlackWhiteRaceGrowing UpMembersNeighborhoodLicenseAll Black Author:Sarah Silverman
“I feel that sometimes, holding yourself as black, saying that is your sole identity, can sometimes stand in your way of being a member of the humanity of man, being a member of the family of the divine.” MenWayFeelsSometimesHumanityBlackIdentityDivineMembersSole Author:Giancarlo Esposito
“My first time performing was in the black box theater of my high school's basement as a member of 'Clownaz,' the school's improv team. We charged money for tickets, saying the proceeds went to our school's recycling program. Then, immediately after the show, we divided up all the money and kept it.” FirstsShowsSchoolBlackTeamMembersHigh SchoolFirst TimeProgramTheaterBoxesPerformingDividedTicketsBasementsRecyclingBlack Boxes Author:Joe Mande
“We live in a highly industrialized society and every member of the Black nation must be as academically and technologically developed as possible. To wage a revolution, we need competent teachers, doctors, nurses, electronics experts, chemists, biologists, physicists, political scientists, and so on and so forth. Black women sitting at home reading bedtime stories to their children are just not going to make it.” NeedsChildrenStoriesHomePoliticalReadingNationsBlackTeacherRevolutionMembersSittingDoctorsScientistExpertsNurseBlack WomenPhysicistCompetentBedtimeBiologistChemistElectronicsBedtime Stories Author:Frances M. Beal
“I've always said as a political scientist that "culture" is what we use when we can't explain things. I think it's more about accessibility. Part of the problem is that this is an expensive game [golf]. I know in a couple of places where there are black members, and they come from pretty much the same socioeconomic level that the white members come from.” ThinkingKnowsSaidUseProblemPoliticalCultureGamesBlackWhiteLevelsCoupleMembersScientistGolfExpensiveAccessibility Author:Condoleezza Rice
“The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either,--black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand.” IfsHandsSeemsMightNightBlackHellTerribleShapesTenMembersShadowSubstanceSatanFierceCrownsLimbsJointsFuryParadise Lost Book 2 Book:Milton's Poetical Works: Together with the Life of the Author Source: Milton's Poetical Works: Together with the Life of the Author
“Fox News reported Thursday that Bill Clinton can't get into any of New York's better golf and country clubs. Not one member has been willing to sponsor him. So it's official, he really is America's first black president.” FirstsHas BeensCountryAmericaBlackPresidentNew YorkWillingMembersNewsBillsGolfClintonClubsOfficialsFoxesFox NewsSponsorsThursdayCountry Clubs Author:Argus Hamilton
“People are going to always have their opinions whether you date a black man or not. I've had girlfriends, family members comment on black men that I've dated as well as white people. People want to see what they want to see. And if anybody doesn't fit that picture they're going to be like, 'Yeah, I didn't see you with him.'” PeopleIfsMenWantWellsBlackWhiteOpinionFitMembersYeahGirlfriendCommentFamily MembersFamily Friends Author:Sanaa Lathan
“What is clear is that Malcolm X incorporated within the framework of black nationalism a pan-Africanist and internationalist perspective. In doing so, he began to reassess radically earlier positions sexism and patriarchy. He began to break with notions of sexism that he had long held as a member of the Nation of Islam, and began to advance and push forward women leadership in the OAAU.” LongNationsBlackBreakClearPositionPerspectiveMembersIslamNotionNationalismSexismPatriarchyFrameworkWomen LeadershipNation Of IslamBlack Nationalism Author:Manning Marable
“There's a black lawyer in Galveston, Texas, who was the unpaid NAACP general counsel in Texas. He had a great record in housing discrimination, labor discrimination. He decided to take as a client a member of the Ku Klux Klan because the state wanted to get the membership lists of the Klan to find out if they could get something on the Klan. And he said, `I got to take you. I despise you. But we, the NAACP, won that case; NAACP vs. Alabama in the 1950s. Nobody has the right to get your membership lists.' He was fired from the NAACP. To me, he's a hero.” IfsSaidStatesWantedBlackCasesRecordsHeroMembersLaborDecidedLawyerListsDiscriminationTexasDespiseClientsHousingAlabamaMembershipKu Klux KlanNaacp Author:Nat Hentoff
“I was a member of the Black Student Union, part of the central committee at San Francisco State. During the 1968 strike there, I was certainly very much involved in the activities that occurred on campus. It was part of an extraordinary period in my life” StatesBlackStudentsInvolvedPeriodsActivityMembersUnionsExtraordinaryStrikesCommitteesSan FranciscoCampus Author:Danny Glover
“But all was not sunshine and Marvin Gaye songs. [UCLA] also recruited black students as part of a High Potential Program that was meant to bring diversity to the campus. Two of the students that were part of that program were Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter and John Huggins, Jr., both members of the Black Panther Party's Southern California Chapter.” TwoSongBlackPartyStudentsMembersDiversityProgramCaliforniaSunshineSouthernChaptersCarterCampusMarvinPanthersUclaSouthern CaliforniaBlack PantherBlack Panther Party Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“If you're gay and you can't hold hands, or you're black and you can't catch a taxi, or you're a woman and you can't go into the park, you are aware there's a menace. That's costly on a psychic level. The world should be striving to make all its members secure.” IfsWorldShouldHandsBlackLevelsGayMembersStriveSecureParksPsychicsTaxiMenaceHolding Hands Author:Tony Kushner