Black Quotes
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Lois: Hey, Ginger! Are you masturbating in there or what? I wanna show you something!Ginger: in the tub If I'm masturbating, will you leave me alone?Lois: No! Check it out. How do I look?Ginger: Like a white girl in a black bra.
Alison Bechdel
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I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could - if that were your sole purpose - you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down.
William Bennett
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What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.
bell hooks
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I may repeat 'Do as you would be done by' till I am black in the face, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbor as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbor as myself till I learn to love God;and I cannot learn to love God except by learning to obey him.
C. S. Lewis
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Unfortunately, I have been a little disappointed that we have issues out there like traditional marriage, abortion, school education, and we have so much silence from the black community, from black preachers, because they understand first hand the impact of all that.
Burgess Owens
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The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans.
Leslie Fiedler
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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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Black women know that we've got to take care of it - so we take care of it. It's just embedded in us.
Loni Love
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I think part of what we're seeing in the rise of white nationalism is their response to Black Lives Matter, is their response to an ever-increasing fight for equal rights, for civil rights, and for human rights.
Patrisse Cullors
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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.
Lynn Swann
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The great Big Black Things that have loomed against the horizon of my life, threatening to devour me, simply loomed and nothing more. The things that have really made me miss my train have always been sweet, soft, pretty, pleasant things of which I was not in the least afraid.
Elbert Hubbard
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Memphis was almost like going to California. Beale Street was the black man's street.
Muddy Waters
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The Republicans always do a good job of dividing and conquering. They do a really good job of making black folks, poor white folks, and Hispanics not like each other.
Charles Barkley
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The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.
Bobby Seale
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In the black sky no star is seen, somewhere in ambush lurks the Angel of Death, but the spices tongues of the masqueraders are loose and shameless A shout: 'Make way for the hero!' Ah yes. Displacing the tall one, he will step forth now without fail and sing to us about holy vengeance...
Anna Akhmatova
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It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller - writer, musician, filmmaker.
James McBride
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Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue.
Marcel Proust
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Blackface remains exoticist and offensive as a practice, not just because of its long tradition of being used to mock black selfhood, sexuality, and speech but because of its assertion that black people are merely white people sullied by dark skin.
Kevin Young
