I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam. - Kareem Abduljabbar I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo. - Kareem Abduljabbar My dad was never one of those dads you could ask for a quarter if you saw a gumball machine. Instead he had one of those black American Express cards not available to general public. Gumball machines didn't have slots for those. - S A Bodeen In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee. - David Dinkins Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans. - Bob Geldof I joke to people in the press that I realize I'm not black, I'm actually white. But I've got these roots in black American music. I love it. - Glenn Hughes Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great e...

In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black record - the first thing I did that was an actual record. - Steve Albini The ants were busy on the ground, big black ones with shiny bodies and the little dusty quick ants. Kino watched with the detachment of God while a dusty ant frantically tried to escape the sand trap an ant lion had dug for him. He watched the ants moving, a little column of them near to his foot, and he put his foot in their path. Then the column climbed over his instep and continued on its way, and Kino left his foot there and watched them move over it. - John Steinbeck I got into my very theatrical phase. I wore only black: a big black hat and wild hair and wild black clothes, and I carried a sword stick. I went there still looking like Miss Florida, and I came back looking very different. - Delta Burke I introduced Putin to our Scottish terrier, Barney. He wasn't very impressed. On my next...