Black Quotes
When you see a tumour in the brain, it's an ugly looking thing. It's kind of black, grisly and messy. Or it can be white. To see it taken away is just amazing.
I love mayonnaise. Every birthday when I was a kid I'd go to Black Angus and just dip my burger in mayo.
There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance now.
100 years ago, movies were black-and-white, silent, and 16 frames a second. So 100 years from now, what are they going to be?
I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.
Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.
I have certainly met much more discrimination in terms of being a woman than being black, in the field of politics.
The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.
As an actress, I have put myself out there as an independent black woman, a single mom, a go-getter, a hustler who isn't afraid to survive.
My dad is Caucasian, and my mom is African American. I'm half black and half white. Being biracial paints a blurred line that is equal parts staggering and illuminating.
I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.
I used to rely on black-and-white, and while I was working on 'Smile, ' I learned to adapt to color on my end.
Ever since the romantic comedy-drama 'She's Gotta Have It' antagonized black women and black men in 1986, Spike Lee's films have enjoyed the outrage of various groups.
My black-and-white work is more of a celebration, and the color work became more of a critique of society.
I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.
