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Black, brown, white, yellow - why are we always talking about colors? I'm a girl. I believe in a global community.

Alternative culture has always had a populace within the black and brown community.

My experience is that white kids love hip-hop, and brown and black kids love rock music. That shows that brown kids - they carry emotion, they carry pain, they carry oppression and strife.

My dad had a Vincent Black Shadow, which was a quite particular thing: it was the fastest cycle of its era... It sparked a world for me; when I was old enough, I got a motorcycle.

I like to believe I play tragic heroes - characters that are torn between the good and bad, the black and the white.

I have a platform, and I felt compelled to use it to bring awareness to what is happening to Black folks in America and the need for us to take action in America.

When I was a teenager, I was obsessed with black eyeliner all around the eye, but for someone with my kind of skin tone and hair colour, using brown is actually better than black. I've also learnt from makeup artists how to apply lipstick in the correct way: by starting with the Cupid's bow first and working your way around.

I think the first outfit that really kick-started my relationship with Chanel means a lot to me: it was a black, sort of Studio 54-inspired jumpsuit with gold stars all over it, and I wore that, and that's how my relationship with Chanel began, so, you know, it has sentimental value.

There's a lot of music out there that's like, 'I'm so mad! I'm sad! I'm into skulls and crossbones and the color black,' and that's just meaningless and shallow. So much of metal is about that and it's hard to find metal that is substantial and meaningful in terms of its content.

I'm from Cleveland, Ohio. I was the only black girl in my grade. And I was just, like, really dorky. Like, I wasn't cool.

Madonna's like a black widow spider. She tends to use people, then they shrivel up and disappear.

The major change was going from 'Black and White' to 'Fable,' because I was no longer programming, and I had spent most of my time designing through programming, and only working with people I knew well.

We had this terrible thing, this awful thing with 'Black and White' happened, where the design of 'Black and White' was actually... was hijacked by the fan sites. Because what happened is, there were so many fan sites on 'Black and White,' the hype on 'Black and White' was just ridiculously huge. It was completely out of our control.

The nurses' job is emotional and distressing. Their day-to-day work is dealing with people withering and falling to pieces. So black humour is essential for them cope with that. It's just a consequence of their environment.

I work with quite a lot of black comedians and I don't think they think doing accents is racist at all.

I don't think any of us that are white can ever fully understand what it's like to be a black person in America today.

I love Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath and Guns N' Roses and AC/DC.

Without Wonder Woman, there would be no Black Canary; without a Superman, there would be no Flash. They all come from that.

What I thought about multi-ethnic Britain pre-Windrush and what I now know has, for me, changed for ever the meaning of the words black British.

I don't know any black actors who are as short as I am.

I was reluctant to play Othello. It seemed like such a 'black actor' cliche, but when I finally did, in my 40s, I related to him deeply - his brittleness, his ability to fall into an all-encompassing love. I could see where the madness could get in.