Black Quotes
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Ben Carson said black people worked for less. I have breaking news: we built this joint for free. We didn't build it for less.
Angela Rye
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In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.
Barack Obama
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I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.
Malcolm McDowell
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I have a black lab named Luke.
Bryan Clay
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We have lost the good old British spirit. Instead we have American journalism and black-shirted buffoons making a cheap imitation of ice-cream sellers.
Oswald Mosley
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There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human cruelty. I'm talking about whole species becoming extinct, asteroids hitting planets, black holes gobbling up stars.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Steven Spielberg's 'The Color Purple' might as well have been about a bunch of dancing eggplants for all it has to say about black history.
Darryl Pinckney
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In the deep night of metaphysics, all cats look black.
Terry Eagleton
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Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.
Bill Hicks
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I invented the colors of the vowels!--A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green--I made rules for the form and movement of each consonant, and, and with instinctive rhythms, I flattered myself that I had created a poetic language accessible, some day, to all the senses.
Arthur Rimbaud
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Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
Barbara Jordan
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When I was four, I wrote a song about falling into a black hole.
Billie Eilish
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Unlike Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods, Jackie Robinson never tried to convert himself into an acceptable black man.
John Gregory Dunne
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Black liner around the eye makes your eyes look smaller. I think you should reassess, if you're a really big black liner user, maybe even just doing the top line, not lower, or try a brown or a plum or even a navy.
Zoe Foster Blake
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Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then.
Pam Grier
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I want people to see my heart, what I feel - not as one of America's best black actors but as one of the best actors.
Billy Dee Williams
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Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G.
Lionel Hampton
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Black jurors sit on juries every day and convict black people every day.
Johnnie Cochran
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If you are a black person growing up in America, chances are pretty good that you have experienced the police pulling you over in front of your mother's house because you 'had a headlight out.'
Darryl Glenn
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I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good.
Banks
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If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.
Lars Ulrich Metallica
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Even God had a Welsh name : He spoke to him in the old language; He was to have a peculiar care For the Welsh people. History showed us He was too big to be nailed to the wall Of a stone chapel, yet still we crammed him Between the boards of a black book .
R. S. Thomas
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When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?
Marilyn French
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Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it's show business. You know, we all got rhythm.
Diana Ross