- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black Quotes
Black holes, bias, and belonging, all in one word.
This collection ranges from cosmic curiosity about black holes and possibility to a pointed observation about racial conditioning and who gets blamed for problems. For quotes on subtler, quieter qualities, see Mystery quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Hardest Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In September of 2015, I did the unthinkable: I used my second-ever runway show to bring awareness to the Black Lives Matter movement. It was the hardest thing I've ever had to do professionally. It was lonely.
- Better Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish we could do a better job of understanding what we're doing to kids, because it can be better. It's unfair to give up on these young black kids. We don't do that to white kids.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
When someone is in 'the struggle,' which many of our black communities are in, they are living with a lack of educational facilities, high unemployment, and poor recreational facilities.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as my sketches, I've always loved 'What's Up With That.' It's just a whole lot of fun, and I love 'Black Jeopardy,' too. Any kind of host capacity, I'm usually pretty good at.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people decide, if you're mixed, you're black. And so they try to force you to choose a culture.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was from a town called Manhasset, very nice town out on the North Shore of Long Island, New York, but there was a little area, predominantly black population, and it was a small school. I played on the basketball team when I was a junior, and I was the only white guy on the starting five, the top seven actually, and we were really good.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up playing for Manhasset High on Long Island on a team with six black guys.
- Consultation
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- Nov 07, 2020
My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was no person, whether they thought I was too fat, too black, too country, too ghetto, too New York, too thug or too whatever! Nobody ultimately had the say over whether or not I was going to make it.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love seeing people's reactions to gifts that I've created from my line, such as my gold horn ring, bottle openers, my 'Fallen' leather jacket and my Slither black and white sweater.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never an R&B artist. People coined me one, but that's because, especially if you're in the States, if you're black and you sing, then you're R&B.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've jokingly painted some of my favorite collectors as black men, so there's a really great portrait of David LaChapelle, the photographer - my version of him - that's in his collection.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting is about the world that we live in. Black men live in the world. My choice is to include them.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many people see my early work simply as portraits of black and brown people. Really, it's an investigation of how we see those people and how they have been perceived over time.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
The performance of black American identity feels very different from actually living in a black body. There's a dissonance between inside and outside.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the end, so much of what I wanted to do was to have a body of work that exhaustively looked at black American notions of masculinity: how we look at black men - how they're perceived in public and private spaces - and to really examine that, going from every possible angle.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020