Black Quotes
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The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses.
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Actually, some of the things I experienced as a child still linger on; what the white man has done to the black people in the south!
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Black Flag was formed in 1977. We first recorded in 1978.
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There's sort of a persistent misperception that talking about race is black folk's burden. Ultimately, only men can end sexism, and only white people can end racism.
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As far as my sketches, I've always loved 'What's Up With That.' It's just a whole lot of fun, and I love 'Black Jeopardy,' too. Any kind of host capacity, I'm usually pretty good at.
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The laws of spiritual physics will not allow you to lead somebody that you don't love, that you don't care about, that you resent, that you look down on. That's why the Republicans can't lead black people. And that's why Democrats increasingly can't lead these straight, white, male demons that we hate so much.
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I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.
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White people get to do that all of the time. They get to engage in bad behavior, even felonious behavior, but they rarely wind up in jail. But as a black person, losing your temper can cost you your life. Or insisting on your rights can cost you your life.
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'(By moving) I'm making sounds on the drums of spacetime'… 'Space itself wobbles and rumbles like a drum... Black holes can bang on spacetime like mallets on a drum'
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I'm not that interested in fashion... When someone says that lime-green is the new black for this season, you just want to tell them to get a life.
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I was one of I think three white girls in my school. So, I was very much an outsider. And plus I was Jewish and all of my friends were black and Baptist because they listen to the coolest music. We were all listening to Ray Charles and what was then called race music.
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Being a black woman in America and the world and in corporate situations is something to be celebrated.
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Apple was selling $400 iPods with $1 earbuds. They're making a beautiful white object with all the music in the world in it... I'm going to make a beautiful black object that will play it back.
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I love "Phenomenal Woman." The experiences she had of being African American in the U.S. - that itself is a task. I appreciate the hardships Maya Angelou went through for our generation. I'm super influenced by the black people that paved the way for us.
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As a black woman, I feel like I have a unique experience that we don't often see in media portrayals of the South.
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I'm bold in personality, I'm hella tall, and I'm hella black.
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Win walked over to me. He held out his palm. In the middle of it was a single black sequin from the dress Scarlet had lent me. "You lost this," he said. I giggled, slightly embarrassed to be leaving bits of myself behind. "I'm shedding.
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When the citizens of Baltimore banded together to repel the British during the War of 1812, three in five were immigrants, and one in five was black - some were free, some slaves.
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Lords, I protest my soul is full of woe That blood should sprinkle me to make me grow. Come, mourn with me for what I do lament, And put sullen black incontinent. I'll make a voyage to the Holy Land To wash this blood off from my guilty hand. March sadly after. Grace my mournings here In weeping after this untimely bier.
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the streams buck like rams in a tentwhips crack and from the hills come the crookedly combedshadows of the shepherds.black eggs and fools' bells fall from the trees.thunder drums and kettledrums beat upon the ears of the donkeys.wings brush against flowers.fountains spring up in the eyes of the wild boar.
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I always was a weird child. My mother told me the story that, in kindergarten, I would come home and tell her about this weird kid in my class who drew only with black crayons and didn't speak to other kids. I talked about it so much that my mother brought it up with the teacher, who said, 'What? That's your son.'
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The 'Black Panther' world taught me about the importance of exfoliating.
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When you play for this organization, it's in your blood. The fans bleed black and gold and so do the players who have worn that uniform.
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Since neither black animosity nor the Left's falsehood of 'racial tensions' is based on the actual behavior of the vast majority of white Americans, nothing white America could do will affect either many blacks' perceptions or the leftist libel.
