We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every... →
Quincy Jones
Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white people, some Chinese, Filipino, Jewish and black... →
Sidney Poitier and Sidney Lumet were instrumental in helping me get started as the first black composer to get name credit for movie scores.
The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.
I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part... →
Rashida Jones
In Rikers, you had the Italians over here, the Spanish over here, the Blacks here, then there would be your Christians here and your Muslim... →
Sharon Jones
Until the '90s, major labels were looking for a certain look. This Sony guy told me I was 'too black, too fat, too short, and too old.'... →
You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe... →
Van Jones
Football became my life at five or six. The earliest memory I have is of playing in my first boots, a pair of black and white Alan Balls. It was... →
Vinnie Jones
You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.
Janis Joplin