Black Quotes - Page 7

• If the black man is feeble and not important to the existing races, not on a parity with the best race, the black man must serve,and be exterminated. But if the black man carries in his bosom an indispensable element of a new and coming civilization; for the sake of that element, no wrong nor strength nor circumstance can hurt him: he will survive and play his part. So now, the arrival in the world of such men as Toussaint, and the Haytian heroes, or of the leaders of their race in Barbadoes and Jamaica, outweighs in good omen all the English and American humanity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hurt, Hero, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.774, Modern Library

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• The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. A pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Father, White, Facts

  Willard Van Orman Quine (1976). “The Ways of Paradox, and Other Essays”, p.132, Harvard University Press

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• ... not all black women have silently acquiesced in sexism and misogyny within the African-American community. Indeed, many writers, activists, and other women have voiced their opposition and paid the price: they have been ostracized and branded as either man- haters or pawns of white feminists, two of the more predictable modes of disciplining and discrediting black feminists.

  Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

  Men, Two, White

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• We live in a highly industrialized society and every member of the Black nation must be as academically and technologically developed as possible. To wage a revolution, we need competent teachers, doctors, nurses, electronics experts, chemists, biologists, physicists, political scientists, and so on and so forth. Black women sitting at home reading bedtime stories to their children are just not going to make it.

  Frances M. Beal

  Teacher, Children, Reading

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• to be black
  is
  to be
  very-hot.

  Haki R. Madhubuti

  Hot

  Haki R. Madhubuti (1996). “Ground Work”, Third World Pr

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• Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness and your black presence.

  Toyin Odutola

  Artist, People, Want

  "'The Moment for Ink': Show frees artist". Interview with Kimberly Chun, www.sfgate.com. March 22, 2013.

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• I may sound a little black, but I'm really pretty well adjusted.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Sound, May, Littles

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.109, Ballantine Books

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• The equilibrium you admire in me is an unstable one, difficult to maintain. My inner life was split early between the call of the Ancestors and the call of Europe, between the exigencies of black-African culture and those of modern life.

  Leopold Sedar Senghor

  Europe, Culture, Modern Life

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• Boni de Castellane drawing his chins onto his chest; shiny boots, embroidered morning coat, white gloves with black piping, big tie, light vest, the overwashed, bleached impression - 'blanched' as cooks say of boiled vegetables. That was the opposite of a dandy whose stylishness would remain imperceptible to Americans. Boni's style was highly visible.

  Paul Morand

  Morning, Light, Vegetables

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• There's all kinds of depictions of black men. You have the Denzel Washingtons and the Will Smiths; that's wonderful, but that doesn't represent everyone. There's a Russell Crowe... well, you know, there's a black Russell Crowe.

  Michael Jai White

  Men, Kind, Wonderful

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• I feel like I missed my era, because I remember the time when black people uplifted each other and looked for the positives. I feel sorry for the people who live their lives in the negative default setting because they filter out what's good, and that's no way to live.

  Michael Jai White

  Sorry, People, Filters

  "Tasha Smith and Michael Jai White: Reunited and Ready for Prime Time". Interview with Terry Shropshire, rollingout.com. November 10, 2011.

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• He [liberal white person] may stand with you through thin, but not thick; when the chips are down, you'll find that as fixed in him as his bone structure is his sometimes subconscious conviction that he's better than anybody black.

  Malcolm X

  White, May, Bones

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.37, Ballantine Books

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• Tony Black is the Tom Waits of Crime Fiction, yes, that good.

  Ken Bruen

  Waiting, Fiction, Crime

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• If you awaken from this illusion, and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death - or shall I say, death implies life - you can conceive yourself. Not conceive, but feel yourself, not as a stranger in the world, not as someone here on sufferance, on probation, not as something that has arrived here by fluke, but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental. What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.

  Alan Watts

  Self, White, Fabric

  "The Nature of Consciousness". Book by Alan Watts, 1960.

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• The local-tone is the intrinsic value of a thing - excluding any effects of light. The local-tone of a common pearl is very nearly white; that of a lump of coal, nearly black.

  Nathan Goldstein

  Light, White, Coal

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• God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men.He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Freedom, Men, Race

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• I come to the categorical conclusion that precisely at this moment we must give battle to the Black Hundred clergy in the most decisive and merciless manner and crush its resistance with
  such brutality that it will not forget it for decades to come. The greater the number of representatives of the reactionary clergy and reactionary bourgeoisie we succeed in executing for
  this reason, the better.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Crush, Numbers, Giving

  Letter to Comrade Molotov for the Politburo on March 19, 1922. "The Unknown Lenin: From the Secret Archive". Book by Richard Pipes, p. 152-154, 1996.

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• I was with - he wasn't the president then, but - Barack Obama, when he was running, in Washington, during Black Congressional Caucus Weekend, and did a panel about global warming with him. It was almost as if I switched careers for a while, and became a political activist.

  Lawrence Bender

  Running, Weekend, Careers

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• I love the feel of good quality Italian black lace that feels delicate and really feminine.

  Nicole Trunfio

  Italian, Quality, Lace

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• Anti-Catholicism is the last respectable prejudice. You can't hate black people anymore, of course, and you can't hate homosexuals anymore, but you can hate all the Catholics you want.

  Tom Clancy

  Hate, People, Catholic

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• I really wish Hollywood would stop labeling movies, especially movies with predominantly black casts. Then, it makes others feel like, "Oh, well, that's not for me." At the end of the day, everybody understands love, loss, pain and heartbreak. That's not a color.

  Taraji P. Henson

  Pain, Loss, Color

  "Taraji P. Henson Talks THINK LIKE A MAN, PERSON OF INTEREST, Upcoming NO GOOD DEED, and Her Wish to Play Either Whitney Houston or a Superhero". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 16, 2012.

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• I just hate when things get labeled as "black movies." I don't say, "Oh, this weekend, I want to see an all-white movie," or "I want to see a black movie." I just go to a movie because I saw the previews and I relate to it. I want to see it because the previews look interesting.

  Taraji P. Henson

  Hate, Weekend, White

  "Taraji P. Henson Talks Think Like a Man, Person of Interest, Upcoming No Good Deed, and Her Wish to Play Either Whitney Houston or a Superhero". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 16, 2012.

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• The female struggle implies the black struggle, it implies the struggle with anti-Semitism, it implies all of the other struggles. That is the only possible way to think about human liberation.

  Sally Potter

  Struggle, Thinking, Female

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• While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to me. To fall into a black hole, that is more amazing than anything I've ever read in a science-fiction story.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Real, Fall, Fiction Stories

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• There are many Americans who regardless of the intelligence or the profound political persuasion of a figure will never vote for a black man. Not all of them are racists; some are skeptical, and some are suspicious.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Men, Profound, Political

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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