I have four strikes against me. I'm black I'm short I'm intelligent and I have a medical condition.

Our black president can't say that he's for gay marriage. That is upsetting to me.

The definition of marriage cannot be disputed. It's right there in black and white and it's been the same since the start of Wikipedia.

My mother brave woman lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the '60s. When the marriage fell apart she had to come back to her family.

Particularly black Americans many of them from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had are sort of insulted that the civil rights movement is being hijacked - the rhetoric of the civil rights movement is being hijacked for something like same sex marriage. Black Americans tend to have a higher degree of religiosity.

I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy and that is marriage. I think for instance that it would be far easier for Americans to elect a black president or a female president than an unmarried president.

The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality birth within marriage parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?

A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you be accepted and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much.

Black as the devil hot as hell pure as an angel sweet as love.

I love blackjack. But I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi circle.

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.

Some white people hate black people and some white people love black people some black people hate white people and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.

I love being black in America and especially being black in Hollywood.

'Strictly Business' is about a young black man who is learning about himself and that applies to a lot of young black men those who are trying to find jobs. This film gives them a good look at that situation.

During the days of segregation there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities.

There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party.

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races and in black and other minority men.

Now if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today.

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech character more than a claim is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.

I had a non-existent knowledge of Queen Victoria's early years. Like everyone else I thought of her as an old lady dressed in black. My mom had told me about her though that she had a very loving relationship with Albert that they had lots of kids and that he died young.

It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants crowded together around the Hill blackening the ground that you begin to see the whole beast and now you observe it thinking planning calculating. It is an intelligence a kind of live computer with crawling bits for its wits.

When it came to political power blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.

I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country as I did there's nothing quite like country dark which was really black. And as a child your imagination runs wild.

In my wildest imagination I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood in the poor rural community of Eufaula Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.