All Black Quotes

• Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy - but mysterious. [...] But above all black says this: 'I don't bother you - don't bother me'

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Fashion, Lazy, Black

  "Fashion's Poet of Black : YAMAMOTO" by Suzy Menkes, www.nytimes.com. September 5, 2000.

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  Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

  "50 stunning Olympic moments No35: Wilma Rudolph's triple gold in 1960" by Rob Bagchi, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2012.

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• This is brain surgery. Ski masks on my bullets, let 'em commit brain burglary. Emergency, it's an emergency. Someone in all black left the whole scene burgundy.

  Lil Wayne

  Black, Brain, Ems

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• In the beginning it was all black and white.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Black And White, Black White, White

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• I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.

  Marcus Garvey

  People, Black, Desire

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• It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Beautiful, Hair

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• I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Life, Eye, Soul

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.153, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Black And White, People, Gutters

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• A bear! A bear! All black and brown and covered in hair!

  George R. R. Martin

  Hair, Black, Bears

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Storm of Swords: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Three”, p.103, Bantam

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• What are letters?” “Kinda like mediaglyphics except they’re all black, and they’re tiny, they don’t move, they’re old and boring and really hard to read. But you can use ’em to make short words for long words.

  Neal Stephenson

  Moving, Long, Black

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “The Diamond Age”, p.46, Spectra

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• Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue.

  Marcel Proust

  Blue, Sky, Black

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.129, Wordsworth Editions

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• Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.

  Kanye West

  Men, Jeans, White

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• I played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, firemen's fairs, policemen's balls, in front of supermarkets, bar mitzvahs, weddings, drive-in theaters. I'd seen it all before I ever walked into a recording studio.

  Bruce Springsteen

  White, Black, Bars

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• Yes?' Joe Solomon sounded like someone with far better things to do. 'Is there any homework?' she asked, and the class turned instantly from shocked to irritated. (Never ask that question in a room full of girls who are all black belts in karate) 'Yes,' Solomon said, holding the door in the universal signal for get out. 'Notice things.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Doors, Class

  Ally Carter (2007). “I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You”, Hyperion

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• I was born in Detroit, in an all black neighborhood.

  Steven Seagal

  Black, Detroit, Born

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• Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind social changes in the United States. And why has there never been an all-black daytime network soap? It would probably blow the white soaps off the map.

  Camille Paglia

  Blow, White, African American

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• I'm not interested in making all-black films - I come from a very diverse culture, I want to work with every type of person. I work a lot with women executives because they seem to be a lot more open minded about that and a lot more progressive in that way.

  Idris Elba

  Black, Culture, Want

  "The god in Idris Elba". Interview with Afua Hirsch, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2011.

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• I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Writing, Land, People

  Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. March 7, 2007.

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• I instinctively dress a bit tougher because I've spent a lot of time in the U.S. and I realised there was a certain image projected of me here. I've always been an absolute rebel. When I was in my teen years I had piercings and wore all black.

  Ellie Goulding

  Years, Black, Rebel

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.

  Bell Hooks

  People, Goal, Black

  bell hooks (2014). “Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism”, p.5, Routledge

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• Part-black generally means all-black in Americans' minds. Just as part-Asian or part-Hispanic or part-anything-else usually puts individuals in those minority-groups' camps.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Mean, Mind, Black

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• I wasn't cocky, just confident; I went to an all black school, a white kid.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Cocky, School, Kids

  "Shia LaBeouf Sheds His Child Image for The Greatest Game Ever Played". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. September 30, 2005.

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• There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.

  Queen Latifah

  Perfect, People, Black

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The media love to cover black people on the front page. After all, when you live in a society that will lock up about 30 percent of all black men at some time in their lives and send more of them to prison than to college, chances are a fair number of those black faces will end up in the newspaper.

  Michael Moore

  College, Men, Media

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• I'm an avid hockey fan and I've been playing for about 17 years, and somebody recently told me that the first organized hockey teams in Canada were all black. Telling those stories would be cool.

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.

  Team, Hockey, Avid

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. January 17, 2012.

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