Black Quotes
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A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.
Barbara Smith
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Black, brown, white, yellow - why are we always talking about colors? I'm a girl. I believe in a global community.
Priyanka Chopra
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
Zakk Wylde
Black Label Society
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It's important for youth, black youths particularly, to be able to fill in the blanks of themselves so they can know completely who they are, but also all the country to understand what this means: what the civil rights movement does to us as people. It is part of the journey that we must be on in order to become fully evolved human beings.
Forest Whitaker
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I enjoyed every minute of what I was doing with sessions, because The Blossoms, the group that I was singing with, they were the first black background singers. There weren't any.
Darlene Love
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I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.
Laura Vandervoort
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In America, black urban teenagers have long been lacking in inclusion. In France, there is a comparable lack of inclusion among North Africans. In much of Europe, there has been little attempt to include the Roma.
Edmund Phelps
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I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.
Octavia E. Butler
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The first colours which made a strong impression on me were light juice green, white, crimson red, black and yellow ocher. These memories go back to the third year of my life. I saw these colours on various objects houses and roofs, in Russia which are not as clear in my mind as the colours themselves.
Wassily Kandinsky
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We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next, trying to attract a larger house, trying to reach an audience that's half black and white.
Valerie Simpson
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The idea of an e-book has been around since the late 1970s, when researchers at Xerox PARC got on the case. Their prototype used millions of little magnetic particles, black on one side and white on the other, loosely embedded in the surface of a soft sheet of rubber.
Charles Platt
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We were constantly appealing for funds from readers when I edited 'The Black Dwarf' in 1968-69.
Tariq Ali
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In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
Bill Condon
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The performance of black American identity feels very different from actually living in a black body. There's a dissonance between inside and outside.
Kehinde Wiley
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’Tain’t by turnin’ out to hack folksYou’re agoin’ to git your right,Nor by lookin’ down on black folksCoz you’re put upon by white;Slavery ain’t o’ nary color,’Tain’t the hide thet makes it wus,All it keers fer in a feller’S jest to make him fill its pus.
James Russell Lowell
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I wrote a script with my brother which ended up, somehow, on the Black List in 2008.
Kat Dennings
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
Carl Bernstein
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American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should think that any number of black writers should go into the detective story form.
Chester Himes
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Because of Rudy Giuliani's policies of reducing crime in New York City, tens of thousands of black men, women, and children are alive today that wouldn't have been otherwise.
David A. Clarke, Jr.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
Kara Walker
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Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
Mara Brock Akil
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I claim my right to think for myself, to refuse to have my ideas assigned to me as though I was an intellectual slave because I'm black.
Clarence Thomas
