I don't think I'm really so unique. If every black person looked at their life they would quickly discover that they have been influenced by every type of music prevalent in America.
Roy Ayers
We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them. Carlisle Floyd
When you say that you are a race man, it means that you embrace the entire black community regardless of the hue, whether somebody is very light and could pass for possibly white or someone is very dark. Ed Smith
When you were growing up in the 30s, 20s, of course the 40s, all black people at least in the Washington, D.C., area were required to live among themselves. Ed Smith
Like I went out to a predominantly black club last night and nobody said anything and I was wishing somebody would so that someone would dance with me. Taye Diggs
I was very young at the time, and I mainly appreciated their vocal qualities, even though I was already living as they did - as black performers in a white world. Bobby Short
In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers... I think you would have a problem definitely. Omar N. Bradley
I support any procedure that allows photographers to express themselves, whether that involves color, black and white, platinum, palladium and digital technology. John Sexton