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Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.
Mahalia Jackson
Tags: Me Got Ever
There's no black and white in this world; it's all grey. That's what people are like! No one think they're a baddie. Everyone thinks they're trying to do their bit to make the world a better place.
Riz Ahmed
Tags: People Like Think
My characters make incomprehensible decisions until you stand in their shoes. Then it makes more sense. Life is very rarely black and white, and most people are trying to do their best. I try not to judge.
Jojo Moyes
Tags: Best You People
It's good to play something that's black and white, and a guy that sees right and wrong. I've never played a character like that.
David Lyons
Tags: Good Like Never
When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.
Sam Mendes
Tags: Want See Through
My go-to shoes for everyday would probably have to be either my white Converse that I've had since high school or my black Alexander McQueen flats with the skull on the top. It depends on my day.
Katherine Schwarzenegger
Tags: Had Would Day
I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it.
Salmon P. Chase
The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.
James A. Baldwin
Tags: Power People Want
I just start with a pencil and paper. I don't want something too trendy, too fashion-forward. I don't want to make something I consider a regular person couldn't wear with blue jeans. But I don't want to make something that other people make, either - like a skinny black suit in a shiny material that you can buy anywhere.
John Malkovich
Tags: You People Like
I think everybody has the ability to fall in love with a man or with a woman or a white person or a black person or a Jewish person or a Protestant person or whatever.
Ally Sheedy
I didn't want to do the whole, get the hottest person thing. I wanted to make sure every record felt right.
Pras Michel
Tags: Get Want Make
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There's a black man inside of me just trying to make bail.


Brad Garrett
Tags: Me Just Make
For a radical feminist to try to change the church was like a black person trying to reform the Ku Klux Klan.
Mary Daly
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Obama reminds me of the black kid at a white school that don't nobody want to play with.


Ice Cube
Tags: Me Want Play
Certainly I feel like I'm the tip of the arrow at times because certainly the national media wants to talk about the fact that I'm a black Republican and some people think of that as zany that a black person would be a conservative but to me what is zany is any person black, white, red, brown or yellow not being a conservative.
Tim Scott
Tags: People Me Like
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I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white.


Damian Loeb
Tags: People Most Read
The idea that you can get everything you want in one person is destructive, and maybe when you accept that the number is closer to 50 or 60 or 70 percent, that's when you can start to make some progress in choosing the right person.
Michelle Williams
Tags: You Get Want
My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
Fleur East
Tags: Dad You People
A film like 'Good Night And Good Luck,' you make that for $7 million because you know it's a black-and-white film, and it's not an easy sell. If you make it for $7 million, then everybody can have a chance to make a little bit of money, and you get to make the film you want to make.
Grant Heslov
Tags: Good Money Chance
My wife says I spend my life trying to teach white folks. I'm not so sure I'm proud of it, but she's right.
Derrick Bell