Vincente Minnelli Quotes
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We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.
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I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me.
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Every time a young girl comes in and asks me for advice, if you start your conversation with, 'How hard is it as a black woman,' or, 'How hard is it as a woman,' I turn you around. Because I cannot - we cannot look at the roadblocks and see the road at the same time.
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Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.
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Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.
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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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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!
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But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.
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In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.
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At fashion shows, my brows often get bleached, and they've been dyed back much darker - like jet black, where you can't even see my skin. Sometimes with Just for Men! What a mistake. At times, the two brows aren't even the same color!
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Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.
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Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
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I think that it's hard enough being an adolescent and wanting so much to fit in with your peers, your schoolmates, and to erase any sign of difference, to be part of the group. And being biracial but also being black in a predominately white school marked me as different.
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To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.
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I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.
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I would love to work with Jack White or Kanye West.
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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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All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.
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There's always been that theory that if a candidate can't run a decent campaign, he probably can't run a decent presidency. That might be true, although sadly I must admit that running a brilliant campaign does not translate into running a brilliant White House.
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I'm a chronicler of Negroland, a participant-observer, an elegist, dissenter, and admirer; sometime expatriate, ongoing interlocutor.
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It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
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It was always theater for me. But part of that came out of the fact that I was always acting out as a kid. I was the kid who didn't play well with others.
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You'll have an unbelievable sense of calm when you have a baby.
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Color can do anything that black-and-white can.
