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I used to say in interviews that I don't necessarily want to be the first black woman or first model to do certain things; I just want to see it done.

The average Liberian, it turns out, does not share the same assumptions as the average black Methodist minister from Chicago.

Some white people are privileged, some aren't. Some black people are, some aren't. It's strikes me as, by definition, a racist attack in that it's making a generalization - a negative one - based on skin color.

In 2010, aside from that niche of music that I have no interest in - Black Eyed Peas territory, disposable pop stuff - there's almost an incentive to go back to making music as adventurous and groundbreaking as you can, because nobody gets a big hit anymore.

I think culturally, even if you just talk about it in context, the standard of beauty has not included women of color. Period. Not just black women. If you are not a certain thing, there has not been space for you.

I've heard people say, 'Why do you have to do a show that's called 'Black Girls Rock'?' or 'Why is there an expression called 'black girl magic'?' You know, when you say, 'Save the dolphins,' you don't mean, 'I don't like whales.' That's just not the way it works!

I'm a black man in America, so I'm going to be misunderstood.

Black people dance well because we start early - there's music being played everywhere. White people? They don't start dancing until they get to college, and by then, it's too late; the bottom don't move with the top no matter how hard they try.

They say that every Jewish person is supposed to love one black person in his life. I'm glad Lorne Michaels chose me.

I'm a white guy in a black sport. I really forget about it until someone asks me about it. I'm simply competing in a sport that I love.

The notion that a black suspect can do no wrong and is always the victim is B.S.

As America prepared for war in 1941, discrimination largely shut black Americans out of job opportunities in the growing defense industry.

I think many of the ideas that opened up in the '60s got implemented in the '70s and that certain minority voices that were not being heard in the '60s, like women and gay people, were being heard in the '70s. Black Civil Rights had also found its foothold, and those ideas were also very pertinent.

I'm a walking contradiction on so many levels. I'm gay, black, and a Christian.

If you black out the background in AR, you could make an immersive VR experience, and if you make the view translucent so you can see through it, you just have an augmented view of the real world. I think that's the ultimate and best form of display tech we'll have.

Green and black go well together, don't they?

Gold looks good on my skin, and gold looks good on black people, I think.

I never go black tie. I never grew up wearing ties or bow ties or anything.

I don't need to tell myself that I'm black or that I'm proud of being black. I just am, and it just doesn't matter.

It's said that most Americans under the age of 30 reflexively dislike movies made before 1970, especially those that were shot in black and white. If this is so, I suspect it's because such films portray an America that no longer exists.

A couple of years ago, leaving a restaurant near the Louvre, I held the door for a black man in a camel overcoat. Only as he passed did I realize it was the rapper Kanye West.