Black beauty - he's a dark horse.

I do not know which to prefer The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes The blackbird whistling Or just after.

Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in 'Black Mask' magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world.

We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.

Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.

I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues ' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.

Black literature is taught as sociology as tolerance not as a serious rigorous art form.

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

I'm really busted up over this and I'm very very sorry to those people in the audience the blacks the Hispanics whites - everyone that was there that took the brunt of that anger and hate and rage and how it came through.