Edouard Manet Quotes
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My hair is not really white; it's kind of grayish, and I don't like the color. So I make it totally white with Klorane dry shampoo. That is the best thing to do because my hair is always clean.
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We believe it is comprehensive international sanctions against the white regime that will save us from the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of South Africans, black and white.
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The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.
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I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
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When in life do you get a black and white printout that says this is what you should do? It just doesn't happen.
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Leather pants are my guilty fashion pleasure. I have at least 10 pairs in navy, red, white, dusty pink, grey, suede and black.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'
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Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
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African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures.
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College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.
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George Bush doesn't care about black people.
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Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
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It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.
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We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
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I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.
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I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?
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'Black Messiah' is a hell of a name for an album. It can easily be misunderstood. Many will think it's about religion. Some will jump to the conclusion that I'm calling myself a Black Messiah. For me, the title is about all of us. It's about the world. It's about an idea we can all aspire to. We should all aspire to be a Black Messiah.
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Granny beads are what they're called when a grandma works the garden all day - you always see them - they have a handkerchief around their neck with a lot of dust on them, and then the sweat will go down and make these black beads of sweat and dirt around their neck. And that's what they call granny beads.
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I dug the idea that I was being perceived as the black sheep of my family, but for me, it was like, I was a rebel, and that to me was most important.
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People want to peg you as alternative R&B when they hear soul or see the color of your skin. It's comfortable when people see artists of color or artists that come from a different country to put that brand on us. It's just not as linear as that.
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The performance of black American identity feels very different from actually living in a black body. There's a dissonance between inside and outside.
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Disgrace should be represented upside down, because all her deeds are contrary to God and tend to hell.
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Black is not a color.
