White shall not neutralize the black nor good compensate bad in man absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.

Very few if any first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic ' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor ' it's crucial to say that.

You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.

There's one more thing I want to say. It's a touchy subject. Black beauty. Black sensuality. We live in a culture where the beauty of black people isn't always as celebrated as other types. I'd like to help change that if I can!

My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility about beauty and how to make gumbo.

The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.

One night I'll be in Los Angeles and it'll be a Latin crowd and then another night I'll go to Fresno and it'll be an all-black crowd. To me that's the beauty of the music.

I find in being black a thing of beauty: a joy a strength a secret cup of gladness.

Black beauty - he's a dark horse.

I do not know which to prefer The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes The blackbird whistling Or just after.

Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in 'Black Mask' magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world.

We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.

Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.

I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues ' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.

Black literature is taught as sociology as tolerance not as a serious rigorous art form.

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

I'm really busted up over this and I'm very very sorry to those people in the audience the blacks the Hispanics whites - everyone that was there that took the brunt of that anger and hate and rage and how it came through.

I'm jamming 'Black Sabbath Vol. 4' all the time. Zappa's 'Cruising With Ruben & The Jets.' A lot of Gong lately. Some Hawkwind. The Residents' 'Duck Stab' is amazing. Some Fugs. Lots of stuff man. I'm pretty schizophrenic with records.

You can muck around with different guitars for certain bits but you have to have your own sound. That's your benchmark that's your sound. I also play a Black Beauty. It sounds amazing.

When I look into the crowd I see young and old black and white - it's amazing that I'm able to connect with so many different kinds of people.

In America Blackberry Farm in Tennessee is one of the most amazing hotels I've had the privilege of staying at.

As a young black boy it made me proud to see black leaders that did something amazing and made the world change.