Sara Sheridan Quotes

The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout.

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• When I went to drama school, I knew I was at least as talented as other students, but because I was a black man and I wasn't pretty, I knew I would have to work my butt off to be the best that I would be, and to be noticed.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Work
  • School
  • Pretty

• 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.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Believe
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• I'm a TV junkie, so it's hard to choose just one. Currently I'm a slave to 'Black Sails,' 'Vikings,' 'Game of Thrones' and 'The Mindy Project.'

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Game
  • Black
  • Choose

• I love diamond facials - they leave me glowing and refreshed.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Love
  • Diamond
  • Glowing

• The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Man
  • Black
  • You

• Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • Black
  • Create
  • Segregation

• I love to drive in the Black Hills of Wyoming and South Dakota with Mount Rushmore as the central stop.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Love
  • Black
  • Stop

• The misperception about the South is that everybody is racist, and all black people are victims, that what was prevalent in the '60s is only relegated to the South.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Black
  • Everybody

• '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.

  

  D'Angelo
  • World
  • Black
  • Myself

• When you say that you are a race man, it means that you embrace the entire black community regardless of the hue, whether somebody is very light and could pass for possibly white or someone is very dark.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Man
  • Black
  • Light

• People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Think
  • Fact

• All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • People
  • Different
  • Man

• It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Black
  • Vote
  • Activity

• In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Book
  • History
  • Black

• There's not too many rich black people in this world.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • People
  • World
  • Black

• In the depths of the moor, the peat may be seen riven like floes of ice, and the rifts are sometimes twelve to fourteen feet deep, cut through black vegetable matter, the product of decay of plants through countless generations.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • May
  • Black
  • Deep

• I happen to think that conservatism, when properly applied to the 21st century, could actually help everybody. And the message of Trump's campaign was obviously not super-appealing to Latino Americans, black Americans and so forth. That really bothered me.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Help
  • Black
  • Me

• Poitier opened the doors to so many artists, not just black artists. There is a line that goes from black to Latin to Asian with regards to roles.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Black
  • Artists
  • Latin

• The trials my father went through were things most young black males have to go through. There was nothing he shielded from me, because it doesn't matter how you grow up, those who oppress will oppress. It's all completely relatable; everyone feels NWA.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Up
  • Father
  • Black

• In the years after World War I, blacks began to migrate to the North and its imagined freedoms in great numbers - 'Russian' came to mean a black who had rushed from the South.

  

  Darryl Pinckney
  • World
  • Great
  • War

• Photographers have already photographed everything too many times, except cheese.

  

  Bill Jay
  • Cheese
  • Photographers

• The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president.

  

  David Herbert Donald
  • American
  • Leadership

• The only thing that I'm obsessed with is sleeping, and actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure.

  

  Christian Bale

• The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout.

  

  Sara Sheridan
  • Black
  • Diamond
  • Succession