Black Quotations | Page 9

We are a little bit out of touch in Hollywood every once in a while. I think it's probably a good thing. We're the ones who talk about AIDS when it was just being whispered, and we talked about civil rights when it wasn't really popular. This Academy, this group of people gave Hattie McDaniel an Oscar in 1939 when blacks were still sitting in the backs of theaters. I'm proud to be a part of this Academy.

We believe that the FDA's immediate concern level with the products is low and see black box as unlikely. A medication guide is more likely because of the strong panel vote in its favor.

There are some black sheep countries in Europe, and one of them was Ireland and it now appears that a second one may be France.

It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.

We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.

You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun.

A rare bird upon the earth and very much like a black swan.

A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.

My aunt is the director of the acapella group Black Voices. I was so struck by them as a child. They sang with such passion and conviction. By the time I turned 15, I had plucked up the courage to ask if I could join the group. Acapella is a different discipline from singing with an accompaniment - it is much more exposed.

When it comes to racial issues, I'm very passionate about young girls just loving who they are in their own skin. Because I remember going to an all-white school and being the only black girl in an all-white school, think - looking around me, thinking there's no one else here that looks like me.