Black Quotes - Page 18

• Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write.

  Russell Simmons

  Country, Inspiration, Writing

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The black hole in democracy is integrity. The great unspoken is integrity. When integrity is not first and foremost, it's quite palpable but not visible. It's always there. Jazz highlights it because musicians and jazz always represented a high level of integrity.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Integrity, Democracy, Musician

  Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

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• There's a thing I really mind hearing, when someone says: "That's not my kind of film, I don't want to go and see that..." I don't believe that, I don't believe that it's possible to write off a whole genre of filmmaking - "oh I don't like subtitled films", or "I don't like black and white films", or I don't like films made before or after, a certain date" - I don't believe that.

  Tilda Swinton

  Believe, Writing, Black And White

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It [Cambridge] wasn't a holy grail in the sense that I'd never been to Cambridge. But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.

  Alan Bennett

  Holy Grail, Frost, Wonderful

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Macroscopic objects, as we see them all around us, are governed by a variety of forces, derived from a variety of approximations to a variety of physical theories. In contrast, the only elements in the construction of black holes are our basic concepts of space and time. They are, thus, almost by definition, the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe.

  Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

  Space, Perfect, Elements

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• The black and merciless things that are behind the great possessions.

  Henry James

  Possession, Behinds

  The Ivory Tower notes (1917)

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• What happens to Black Folks today, happens to White Folks tomorrow.

  Dick Gregory

  White, Today, Tomorrow

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• Who would have thought when they came to the fight?
  That they'd witness the launching of a human satellite.

  Muhammad Ali

  Fighting, Satellites, Witness

  "The Soul Of A Butterfly". Book by Book by Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali, 2004.

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• Be loud, be pretty and keep their black-hatin' asses in their chairs

  Muhammad Ali

  Ass, Chairs, Loud

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• Nobody has to tell me that this is a serious business. I'm not fighting one man. I'm fighting a lot of men, showing a lot of 'em, here is one man they couldn't defeat, couldn't conquer. My mission is to bring freedom to 30m black people

  Muhammad Ali

  Fighting, Men, People

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• Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Humanity, Vivisection, Creation

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• If cathedrals had been universities If dungeons of the Inquisition had been laboratories If Christians had believed in character instead of creed If they had taken from the bible only that which is GOOD and thrown away the wicked and absurd If temple domes had been observatories If priests had been philosophers If missionaries had taught useful arts instead of bible lore If astrology had been astronomy If the black arts had been chemistry If superstition had been science If religion had been humanity The world then would be a heaven filled with love, and liberty and joy

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Christian, Art, Taken

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• That's just like America. It's made up of lots of different people. We're all different colors, different ages, we do different jobs -- but it takes all of us black people, white people, brown people, men and women, young and old, working in the factories, working in the fields, working in offices, working in stores -- it takes a lot of different kinds of people to get the job done for America.

  Jesse Jackson

  Jobs, Men, Color

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• Information anxiety is the black hole between data and knowledge, and it happens when information doesn't tell us what we want or need to know.

  Richard Saul Wurman

  Data, Anxiety, Needs

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• It could have been worse. I could have been born black.

  Stevie Wonder

  Born, Could Have Been, Has Beens

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• Imagine a crime series in which, every week, there is a white suspect and a black suspect. And every week, lo and behold, the black one turns out to have done it. Unpardonable, of course. And my point is that you could not defend it by saying: "But it's only fiction, only entertainment."

  Richard Dawkins

  White, Entertainment, Fiction

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• Black cat, white cat, what does it matter as long as the cat catches mice?

  Deng Xiaoping

  Cat, White, Long

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• Design in black and white. Add color for emphasis, when your design is complete.

  Diane Wilson

  Black And White, Color, Design

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• I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Mistake, Machines, Wipe

  D. H. Lawrence (2006). “Lady Chatterley's Lover”, p.183, Courier Corporation

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• I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Men, Discrimination, Being A Woman

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• When people nowadays say that Elvis was the first white guy to sound black, I have to shake my head; what can you do? At the time of 'That's My Desire' 1947 they were saying that I was the only white guy around who sounded black.

  Frankie Laine

  White, People, Guy

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• I didn't like The Wiz and it wasn't because black people were doing it. I didn't like The Wiz because it was a badly made movie off a classic. Why are you remaking something unless you have something better in mind?

  Harry Belafonte

  People, Mind, Wiz

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• We're all animals, that we all respond to the same stimuli. If you want to motivate somebody not to have premarital sex, or motivate black bears not to go diving into dumpsters, first you have to think about why they do it. Telling them to stop isn't going to help. There has to be some incentive for them to alter their behavior.

  Adam Carolla

  Sex, Thinking, Animal

  "‘How Dare You!’: Q&A with Adam Carolla". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2010.

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• Everything does come from nature. That's where you get new ideas. Just draw the landscape. I felt doing it with a bit of burnt wood was also good because I was drawing burnt wood with a piece of wood. I wanted to do black and white. After using color, I thought black and white would be good. You can have color in black and white. There is color in them, actually.

  David Hockney

  Black And White, Color, Ideas

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• I feel like I'm a designer, not a pop star. But if certain people think of me like a pop star, then the only thing I could do about this is dye my hair black and cut it short maybe.

  Nicki Minaj

  Stars, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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