Black Quotes
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Black, white, rich, poor - we galvanize through the hard times. We really see it happen in relationships. In the best and worst of those moments, you come together, and you look for your tribe.
Kenya Barris
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I usually just wear black so my shoes and my socks are my rays of sunshine.
Matthew Thomas Skiba
Blink-182
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She stepped out from among their shifting confusion of lovely lights and shadows. A circle of grass, smooth as a lawn, met her eyes, with dark trees dancing all around it. And then --Oh Joy! For he was there: the huge Lion, shining white in the moonlight, with his huge black shadow underneath him.
C. S. Lewis
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I drink regular pour-over coffee, black. It's all about the beans. I'm always stocked at home with single-origin coffees from around the world, never more than two weeks old, kept in airtight containers.
Chris Wood
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It's very important to get facials. Facials and sunscreen - people don't believe that black people need sunscreen, but sunscreen with save your life.
Jazmyn Simon
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I knew marriage was not the answer to changing the conditions for poor, black, queer folks. So I never felt compelled to get married - it just didn't seem important. But even if marriage wasn't right for me at the time, or a quick fix toward black empowerment, I found it repulsive that loving same-sex couples were refused the right.
Patrisse Cullors
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And you who sought for magic in your youth but desire it not in your age, know that there is a blindness of spirit which comes from age, more black than the blindness of eye, making a darkness about you across which nothing may be seen, or felt, or known, or in any way apprehended.
Lord Dunsany
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Now, our Sun will not collapse to a black hole. It's actually not massive enough.
Janna Levin
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There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white.
Lisa Ling
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I've met Caucasians who are racist, but I've also heard black people say racist things.
John David Washington
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When writing on black life, whites have often been unwelcome, usually called upon to give witness or hauled in as the accused.
Darryl Pinckney
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When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III
Bad Meets Evil'
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The election, and even the re-election, of a black man as president, in a country that is 87 percent non-black - a first in human history - has had no impact on what are called 'racial tensions.'
Dennis Prager
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I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.
Colin Kaepernick
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I didn't always value the ways black people talked. I thought, in order to make art out of it, you had to change it.
August Wilson
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Humans tend to start the process of change by acknowledging themselves-thus blacks asserted black pride and black is beautiful; women declared I am woman, I am strong ; men are saying I am man, I am okay. After a quarter of a century of male bashing, that’s not a bad start.
Warren Farrell
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God made men by baking them in an oven, but he forgot about the first batch, and that's how Black people were born. And then he was so anxious about the next batch, he took them out of the oven too soon, so that's how White people were made. But the third batch he let cook until they were golden-golden-golden, and, honey, that's you and me.
Sandra Cisneros
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I was never an R&B artist. People coined me one, but that's because, especially if you're in the States, if you're black and you sing, then you're R&B.
Kelis Rogers
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Do you realize how much better the world would be if we all just treated each other the same way black dudes treat magicians?
Aziz Ansari
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I dyed my own hair this Chocolate Cherry color, and I forget what brand it was, but I remember getting into so much trouble because it stained our bathtub. It was this red-black color, and it was a big mistake.
Chrissy Teigen
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That's the nature of my [stand-up] act: black man with a white baby.
W. Kamau Bell
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Civil rights for all Americans, black, white, red, yellow, the rich, poor, young, old, gay, straight, et cetera, is not a liberal or a conservative value. It’s an American value that I would think that we pretty much all agree on.
Jerry Falwell
