Cyril Ramaphosa Quotes
The expropriation of land without compensation is envisaged as one of the measures that we will use to accelerate redistribution of land to black South Africans.Cyril Ramaphosa
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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.
Oprah Winfrey -
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.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I get carded for soda, you know, when I go to the supermarket. I mean, they card me for everything. You know, I can't even get through a hand of black jack without getting carded, like, five times.
Macaulay Culkin -
One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'
Gabourey Sidibe -
In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.
Verne Troyer -
Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.
Eddie Trunk
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I love to drive in the Black Hills of Wyoming and South Dakota with Mount Rushmore as the central stop.
Dana Perino -
Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
Vikas Swarup -
So now I feel I'm lucky in the respect that I can sort of pick a little more carefully, which is tricky because as a black actress, there aren't that many roles to pick from.
Rachel True -
'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 -
There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was first looking around for colleges, thinking of colleges I couldn't afford to go to, I was thinking of being a philosopher. I began to understand then that much of my feelings about race were negative.
Walter Dean Myers -
The less I talk about being black, the better.
Idris Elba
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I actually always had short hair as a kid, and it's really liberating. I recommend it. It's just very easy. I don't have to brush it.
Felicity Jones -
We did a play of 'Frog and Toad' at my elementary school. And I'm not sure if this is part of the book or it was something that we made up on our own, but I auditioned to play the black hole, which somehow makes sense to me.
Hailey Gates -
Jack Black is so funny! On and off screen, like, he would make you laugh every day. He's hilarious.
Caitlin Hale -
My clothes are predominately black and my home is predominantly white.
Fran Drescher -
I've been trying to understand conflict and violence ever since I was a kid. You know. There were a few things that happened even on my block - the Black Panthers used to be right around the corner from where we were.
Forest Whitaker -
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.
Larry Bishop
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The world of superheroes is black and white; the world of monsters is not. Sometimes you need evil to fight evil.
Donna Langley -
I have lots of hopes for black actors in general, whether they be on TV or on stage or in movies, and that is that we move beyond the tokenism of what it means to be black in a particular set of circumstances.
Joe Morton -
In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.
William James -
I get invited to many more literary festivals than I used to because I'm associated with 'Slumdog Millionaire,' the brand. Many more doors have opened up for me as a result of the global success of the film, although I believe that I'm the same person that existed before it.
Vikas Swarup -
My goal was just to live a good life that I was happy with. And I wasn't exactly sure that that meant being the star of a movie.
Gabourey Sidibe -
The expropriation of land without compensation is envisaged as one of the measures that we will use to accelerate redistribution of land to black South Africans.
Cyril Ramaphosa