It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes it was 29 years.
I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.
The years like great black oxen tread the world and God the herdsman goads them on behind and I am broken by their passing feet.
White... is not a mere absence of colour it is a shining and affirmative thing as fierce as red as definite as black... God paints in many colours but He never paints so gorgeously I had almost said so gaudily as when He paints in white.
The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.
But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we all our lives have treated the Negro as an inferior and God is there and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?
It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is only God can judge us.
I don't stand for the black man's side I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.
What's interesting about books that take place in the future even twenty years in the future is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future just like there is now.
To love someone is to isolate him from the world wipe out every trace of him dispossess him of his shadow drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
To me the black black woman is our essential mother the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair almost entirely of our future as a people.
When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone.
You know what? I never really factor Hollywood into anything. I'm a black actor so I can't really control what Hollywood thinks. I gotta go do my thing and my jokes have got to be funny. Whatever I do has got to be great.
I'm half Jewish I'm half black I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like What is he doing?
I wear black skinny-fit jeans - I can't get away from them. It's funny because I wore baggy jeans for ages then one day my friend convinced me to try on a skinny pair and I thought they were great.
Do you know it's funny but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.
Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
To avoid being mistaken for a sellout I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
I am a Republican a black dyed in the wool Republican and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
I think things like food the food of the south is sort of the common tie that binds us all Black and White the sense memories. It's a very particular part of the country.
When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black white purple yellow green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game.