Black

"When I find a colour darker than black, I'll wear it. But until then, I'm wearing black!"

"Black holes are where God divided by zero."

"I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls."

"You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason."

"Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream."

"Whenever someone refers to me as someone "who happens to be black," I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on."

"The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions."

"To be black was to be the beneficiary of a great inheritance, a special destiny, glorious burdens that only we were strong enough to bear."

"I don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side."

"A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light."

"Whether one is rich or poor, educated or illiterate, religious or nonbelieving, man or woman, black, white, or brown, we are all the same."

"It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal."