Sarah Silverman Quotes

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• From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive powers of government from the consent of the governed. Within sound of the voices of those who said this lived more than half a million black slaves, forming nearly one-fifth of the population of a new nation.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Men
  • Black
  • Day

• 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

• One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Business
  • Black
  • Girl

• After Halle Berry does her films and Queen Latifah does her films, it's left to all the black, Latino and Asian actresses to fight over a couple of roles. I opted for some TV. There's just not a ton of work in film.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Work
  • Black
  • Couple

• In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Men
  • Character
  • Black

• It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Man
  • Black
  • Movies

• 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

• It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Black
  • Vote
  • Activity

• Jack Black is so funny! On and off screen, like, he would make you laugh every day. He's hilarious.

  

  Caitlin Hale
  • Black
  • Funny
  • Day

• I am a bit sickie happy. I am prone to black clouds too, but... I am embarrassed about them. It's like: 'My diamond shoes are too tight. My money clip doesn't fit all my fifties.' I mean - really. Shut up.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Up
  • Money
  • Happy

• I thought our community should have a deep dialogue to make black America better. I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Believe
  • America
  • Black

• Black Rock gives us all a chance to heal, to become ourselves.

  

  Larry Harvey
  • Black
  • Rock
  • Chance

• I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

  

  Mae West
  • Funny
  • Snow
  • White

• My biggest luck was the Terry McMillan era, because what happened after the phenomenon of 'Waiting to Exhale' is that publishing woke up. They said, 'Wow. Black people do read.'

  

  Tananarive Due
  • People
  • Up
  • Black

• I love black truffles. I love white truffles.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Love
  • Black
  • White

• The black community is my community - the LGBT community, too, and the female community. That is my community. That's me; it's who I am.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Community
  • Female
  • LGBT

• I wouldn't argue that Mitt Romney is a white supremacist.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • White
  • Argue
  • Mitt Romney

• My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a white woman, which meant she could pass - as folks used to say back then. Her hair was jet-black. She was slim and very attractive.

  

  Ice T
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Black

• Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Black
  • Me
  • Baby

• Decarbonization has already begun, and the appeal of a fossil-fuel-free world is growing - not only because it would limit climate change, but also because it would be more technologically advanced, democratic, resilient, healthy, and economically dynamic.

  

  Johan Rockstrom
  • World
  • Free
  • Growing

• American naturalism is what my indulgent actor side loves: a bit of Tennessee Williams, a bit of Clifford Odets, August Wilson - I would just love to tackle some of that.

  

  Emilia Clarke
  • American
  • August

• I think that it's much easier for a recording artist to become an actor than for an actor to become a recording artist.

  

  Zachary Levi

• I had two experiences with very close friends of mine who experienced aphasia, the loss of language. It shocked me.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Friends
  • Language
  • Loss

• I'll be back. I'll be black. I'll be white black.

  

  Sarah Silverman
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