Black Quotes
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If I'm going to work, I put black jeans on, a T-shirt, a shirt, and a jacket.
Kate Moss
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I feel like decades ago it was either you're black, white, Asian or Hispanic, or whatever, but today we see more of an acceptance for people with multi-nationalities.
Annie Ilonzeh
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Which mindset is right? Mine, of course. People who disagree with me are by definition crazy. (Until I change my mind, when they can suddenly become upstanding citizens. I'm flexible, and not black-and-white.)
Linus Torvalds
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Nothing will ever top 'The Wire.' It was historical. It was black cinema.
Lance Reddick
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It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.
Deng Xiaoping
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Paule Marshall does not let the black women in her fiction lose. While they lose friends, lovers, husbands, homes, or jobs, they always find themselves.
Darryl Pinckney
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Foreman had annihilated every single one of his opponents to that point, but here was Ali, going to Africa, selling himself as the 'real deal' black man.
Leon Gast
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As an attorney, I could be rather flamboyant in court. I did not act as though I were a black man in a white man's court, but as if everyone else - white and black - was a guest in my court. When trying a case, I often made sweeping gestures and used high-flown language.
Nelson Mandela
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Shows in the '70s and '80s were a lot more provocative. Shows that are coming out now - like 'Black-Ish,' 'The Carmichael Show' - are showcasing people of color in a new way. It's not stereotypical.
Bresha Webb
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Black people lived right by the railroad tracks and the train would shake their houses at night. I would hear it as a boy and I thought: I'm gonna make a song that sounds like that.
Little Richard
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They had this movie called Juno about a teenage girl who gets pregnant and it's nominated for an Oscar. That's an unusual experience for me, 'cause when a black girl gets pregnant it ain't no Oscar. It's social work and a box of condoms is what that is.
D. L. Hughley
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Governing means governing all of the people, no matter what demographic it is, whether it'd be black, white, women, straight, gay, Republican.
Don Lemon
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Homosexuality in hip-hop is an extension of homosexuality in the black community. The black community is very, very conservative when it comes to homosexuality, and I don't mean conservative in the good way, like we're saving money. I mean very intolerant.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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I wanted to do something heroic if I was going to be on TV. And the first thing that appeals to me once I have decided I don't want to be the bad guy is to find things that are not black and white.
Kevin Bacon
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I spent summers in my room listening to cast albums, like 'Les Miserables,' every night. I knew it backwards and forwards. I want to be the first black Jean Valjean.
Brandon Victor Dixon
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Life is not black and white; there is some gray nuance to it.
Pilou Asbaek
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I have a very diverse crowd from old, young, black, white, straight, gay. It's a little bit of everybody.
Wanda Sykes
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Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce.
Octavia E. Butler
