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If you say, 'I don't care if Muhammad Ali was a Muslim or not; he was just great,' what you're really saying is, 'I don't care about Muhammad Ali.' Same with Prince being black.

Usually, the news out of Florida makes me feel like being black in Florida can be a terminal condition.

Black is just such an easy colour to wear and always looks cool and slick.

I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we're complicated, that we are indeed messy, that we do our best with what we've been given. We come into the world exactly like you. It's just that there are circumstances in the culture that are dictated and put on our lives that we have to fight against.

You can't be perceived as 'the black actress who doesn't get the same kind of roles as the white actress.' You gotta run the same race. You gotta give the same quality of performances. You gotta have the same standard of excellence, even though people know that you're coming to the race in a deficit. That's just what life is about.

If I didn't live in London, I would live in Glasgow. I love the colour of the brick and the black ironwork. I think it's got such atmosphere and is extraordinary. I met great people there.

D.C.'s a tough place to get love unless you're from D.C. It's like everybody hates you here. The only black person that everyone can agree on is Obama.

Personally, the films I love include 'Black Friday,' 'Lage Raho Munna Bhai,' 'Love Sex Aur Dhoka,' and 'Zindagi Na Milege Dobara' because they work at the box office and are complete packages.

The man who raised me is black. Culturally, he made me who I am. He was a theatre director, so he also guided me artistically.

I want little black girls, little black boys to know that they can be themselves because they do belong for who that they are.

I don't want only young black people that listen to my music be able to appreciate it. I just want people to be able to appreciate it.

I think that everybody has their own interpretations of what it means to be American. But from my vantage point, being black and successful in the Unites States of America is the epitome of being American.

It's just one of those things coming off the boat, especially in New York City. I didn't have style. I was dark skinned - still am, and they would pick on me for that. And it was other black kids, too. I was looking at this kid I'm like you're black, too. What do you mean I'm black? I understand now that's just a way of degrading you.

Some of my favourite shows are 'Black Mirror,' a dystopian thriller show called '3%,' 'Ozark,' 'Tyrant,' etc.

I think, all too often, this society has too monolithic a definition of what a black American is.

I'm just standing behind the Black Lives Matter movement. I stand behind it and support it. And I feel I have a voice and a platform to be able to push it and that's what I'm going to continue to do.

Engineers working in the 'black world' of classified military projects are often referred to in military circles as 'black hats.' There are a lot of jokes about the difference between 'white hats' and their spooky counterparts.

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.