Black Quotes
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I'd spend every summer in Longview on my grandfather's farm. It was a tiny little town divided by a river, which was the segregation line: that side white, this side black. And meanwhile, I lived in Compton - basically, another whole world sealed into 10 square blocks. It's interesting how insular an environment can be.
Forest Whitaker
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I'm from New Orleans, Louisiana. It's not a black-and-white type of thing down there. It's a very cultural place. Everybody has the same accent. It's not like if you're white we can't hang with you or anything like that. So it's easy for us to call each other out on our things.
Jason Mitchell
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Staying true to our goals, Question Bridge as a company and as a project is not singularly about black males. One of the things I'm so excited about Question Bridge is that my vision goes far beyond black males.
Jesse Williams
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In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.
Verne Troyer
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
Ed Smith
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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.
Malcolm X
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Because, also the world of showbiz is not just black and white, good and bad.
Klaus Schulze
Ash Ra Tempel
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.
Umberto Eco
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George Bush doesn't care about black people.
Kanye West
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We [the Subban brothers] are role models to a lot of kids, not just black kids, but all kids out there and that's what we want to be known for.
P. K. Subban
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I love black lingerie and white shoes, and I love knives.
Carine Roitfeld
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I'm not a witch, I just like Halloween, and I thought that blondes look skinnier in black.
Stevie Nicks
Fleetwood Mac
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
J. Cole
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One thing that's coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing.
Dylan Moran
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I'm very fortunate. I loved school and, when I went there, race, gangs and violence were not issues. There was a feeling, gone now, that you had to be presentable. If you hadn't combed your hair, older black ladies - complete strangers - would come up to you in the street and pull out a comb and straighten your tie.
David Harewood
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I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
B. B. King
