I look most like myself... when I'm wearing my black, nerdy engineering glasses.
Junot Diaz
I was neither black enough for the black kids or Dominican enough for the Dominican kids. I didn't have a safe category.
I love 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' That was like the only black book we read in high school.
I'm of African descent and my sister looks completely black, but I didn't look black. I was the super-nerdy kid who was also willing to fight.
Like many insects, flies are most sensitive to green light. This means that they would see their world as 'black and white,' in that they... →
Michael Dickinson
The clothes chosen for me as a child had a strong element of the Pre-Raphaelite, muted greens and ivories, dusty rose, what seems in retrospect an... →
Joan Didion
The man who raised me is black. Culturally, he made me who I am. He was a theatre director, so he also guided me artistically.
Vin Diesel
I gotta lot of Black Irish in me.
Kevin Dillon
In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee.
David Dinkins
I was a sullen kid who smoked cigarettes and wore black every day, and I went to a school that was lacrosse players and Izods.
Peter Dinklage