Predominantly Black Quotes

#1. I went to a predominantly white school, and I was the only black girl. I can remember thinking, 'I don't want to be as dark as I am - I want to be a little fairer.' I didn't want to be me.

Kelly Rowland

#2. It's funny because I went to a predominantly white school, but for some reason they always picked the musicals that were supposed to be done by totally black casts.

Dane DeHaan

#3. I really wish Hollywood would stop labeling movies, especially movies with predominantly black casts. Then, it makes others feel like, "Oh, well, that's not for me." At the end of the day, everybody understands love, loss, pain and heartbreak. That's not a color.

Taraji P. Henson

#4. Problems with visual design can turn users off so quickly that they never discover all the smart choices you made with navigation or interaction design.

Jesse James Garrett

#5. It will be difficult if people can't get past their prejudices; I don't mean Black and White; I mean people automatically assume because a film has a predominantly Black cast, that it is a particular quality of film.

Romany Malco

#6. I am an old man and have had many worries, but most have never come to pass.

Marcus Aurelius

#7. If liking Katy Perry and drinking margaritas is gay, then who wants to be straight?!

James Franco

#8. It is the inescapable duty of management to fire incompetent people.

David Ogilvy

#9. I did not want to make the widow record. I still haven't made the widow record.

Courtney Love

#10. Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering "who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?"

Chuck Berry

#11. Until you take time to discover yourself, you never know what you can achieve or how far you can go

Sunday Adelaja

#12. The thirsty look for water, but water also looks for thirsty.

Rumi

#13. Because of the fact that we've been through so much, we're going to appreciate every step of being parents. I think we're going to savor it and cherish it and we're going to be the best parents we can be.

Bill Rancic

#14. nothing exciting ever happens, so you stop thinking it's going to. and then something does happen, and you miss it. completely.

Catherine Clark

#15. Experiencing the world through Endless secondhand information isn't enough. If we want authenticity we have to initiate it.

Travis Rice

#16. There is nothing", answered he, "which requires more immediate notice than impertinence, for it ever encroaches when it is tolerated.

Fanny Burney

#17. Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.

Wallace Stevens

#18. Here's the thing. We do a movie with a predominantly black cast, and it's put in a category of being a black film. When other movies are done with a predominantly white cast, we don't call them a white film. I'm trying to remove the stigma off things they call black films.

Kevin Hart

#19. Life is about loving it not only living it.

Debasish Mridha

#20. 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

#21. When princes flee battle, and knights turn free-lance, and barons rob pilgrims, what value has honor?"
"Why, all the more, seeing how rare it has become.

Michael Flynn

#22. I grew up in predominantly black neighborhoods and went to predominantly black schools. And hip-hop is what I grew up listening to in my teenage years. Basically I'm just being myself.

Mark Wahlberg

#23. My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down.

Jerry Rice

#24. It was the Michael Jordan/Nike phenomenon that really let people see that athletes were OK, and black athletes were OK. Defying a previous wisdom - not only that black athletes wouldn't sell in white America, but that the NBA as a predominantly black sport could not sell in white America.

David Stern

#25. My clothes are predominately black and my home is predominantly white.

Fran Drescher

#26. It was jarring to be berated for 'acting white' when I was placed in a predominantly black middle school in Southern California. I was also chubby, into boys who weren't into me, and tried too hard to fit into this 'blackness' I was supposed to be.

Issa Rae

#27. Teaching Black Studies, I find that students are quick to label a black person who has grown up in a predominantly white setting and attended similar schools as "not black enough." ... Our concept of black experience has been too narrow and constricting.

Bell Hooks

#28. [T]he courts are so willing to assume that anything that is predominantly black must be inferior ... The mere fact that a school is black does not mean that it is the product of an unconstitutional violation.

Clarence Thomas

#29. There was certainly, like, a rebellious, like, youthful rage in me. And there was also the fact of no getting away from fact that I am white, and you know, this is predominantly black music, you know.

Eminem

#30. How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician.

Henry Miller

#31. The people who couldn't get out of New Orleans to escape the storm were predominantly Black.

Charles B. Rangel