#Black

"Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black."

"Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper."

"Color is the overpowering of black; white – the final victory over black."

"Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic."

"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."

"I wasn't shy, but I was really hyper. Nobody got my sense of humor. I was a black skater kid."

"My past is black and my future is blank. My only canvas is the present. The best color to paint with is love."

"Every black film feels like it's Tyler Perry, and that just needs to stop. But people seem to slowly be looking for what else is out there - 'Is there something else besides this type of humor?' 'I'm tired of seeing men in dresses.'"

"To me, Green Arrow in the past, what people loved about Oliver Queen pre-New 52 was his relationships with other heroes. Like his friendship with Green Lantern, his animosity with Hawkman, his romance with Black Canary - these are all the things that sort of defined him."

"Whose little boy are you?"

"Your life has to consist of more than 'Black people should unite.' You hope they do, but not twenty-four hours a day."

"People are much more complicated in real life, but my characters are as subtle and nuanced as I can make them. But if you say my characters are too black and white, you've missed the point. Villains are meant to be black-hearted in popular novels. If you say I have a grey-hearted villain, then I've failed."

"It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor."

"Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?"

"And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow."

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

"Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her."

"Nothing is black or white, nothing's 'us or them.' But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. There's incredible acts of kindness and bravery, and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope."

"To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be."

"I hate to say it but I hate black humor. I feel like a Klan member saying it, but it's just not funny."