Black Quotes - Page 18

• The soft black talc blew through the streets like squid ink uncoiling along a sea floor and the cold crept down and the dark came early and the scavengers passing down the steep canyons with their torches trod silky holes in the drifted ash that closed behind them silently as eyes.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Eye, Dark, Sea

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road”, p.83, Pan Macmillan

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• There is a reason why one man is born black and with other disadvantages, while another is born white with great advantages. The reason is that we once had an estate before we came here, and were obedient; more or less, to the laws that were given us there. Those who were faithful in all things there received greater blessings here, and those who were not faithful received less

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Blessing, Men, Law

  Joseph Fielding Smith (1972). “Doctrines of Salvation: Sermons and Writings”

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• Not only was Cain called upon to suffer, but because of his wickedness, he became the father of an inferior race. A curse was placed upon him and that curse has been continued through his lineage and must do so while time endures...

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Father, Blessing, Race

  "The Church of Latter-Day Saints: Heterosexism, Racism and ‘Revelation’" by Warren J. Blumenfeld, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2012.

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• When you fall into a black hole you will be literally spaghettified.

  Brian Cox

  Fall, Holes, Singularity

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• Production of identity is a resistance element, an aggressive element. Both a refusal and an affirmation and an assertion, and certainly, we in Jamaica were talking about black art. And the idea that there is a role for art in the civil rights revolution and in the successor to the civil rights revolution.

  Mark McMorris

  Art, Ideas, Rights

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only white man in this unit full of black men.

  Bruce Beresford

  Growing Up, Men, White Man

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• The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character.

  Robert Morgan

  Character, Voice, Hiking

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• Just because a black man is running the RNC doesn't mean black folks are going to, 'Oh, OK, I will be a Republican.' Just as with the election of President Obama. All the problems and concerns that are very important to African Americans don't get solved overnight.

  Michael Steele

  Running, Mean, Men

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  Don't terrorize. Organize. Don't burn. Give kids a chance to learn . . . The real answer to race problems in this country is education. Not burning and killing. Be ready. Be qualified. Own something. Be somebody. That's Black Power.

  James Brown

  Country, Real, Kids

  James Brown, Bruce Tucker (2014). “James Brown: The Godfather of Soul”, p.175, Head of Zeus

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• God created people in technicolor. God has never made a difference between black, white, blue, green or pink

  Bob Marley

  Blue, White, Differences

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• The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a phone to call my husband, and I could almost see the fear coming toward me like a big, black shadow.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Husband, Cancer, Phones

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• Sometimes I'll hear a phrase or a word and write it down in my little black notebook (a writer's best mate), then come back to it and work a plot around it.

  Paul Kane

  Notebook, Writing, Plot

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• Whose the spiritual people pon earth. The Black people. Dem a deal wit God. And God no let dem down.

  Bob Marley

  God, Spiritual, People

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• I don't understand why everyone has to wear black, grey and white.

  Richard Rogers

  White, Grey

  "Building civilisation". Interview with Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2006.

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• Soul was the music made by and for black people. For most of the Sixties it was thoroughly divorced from white popular music, but by the end of the decade several artists with their roots firmly in both soul and R&B traditions had crossed over.

  Jon Landau

  Artist, Roots, White

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• Just as with cars, it's critical to know the fuel efficiency of black holes.

  Steve Allen

  Car, Fuel, Efficiency

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• I think that it would be more true to life, true to the Bible. I wouldn't have a problem with a black man playing Jesus. Being born in that part of the world, he would be more close to being black than white anyway. Although what he did transcended all races.

  Unknown

  Bible, Jesus, Men

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• We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

  Scott Adams

  Ignorance, Views, Sea

  "The Call of Cthulhu". Short story by H.P. Lovecraft, www.hplovecraft.com. 1928.

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• The 'black armband' view of our history reflects a belief that most Australian history since 1788 has been little more than a disgraceful story of imperialism, exploitation, racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination. I take a very different view. I believe that the balance sheet of our history is one of heroic achievement and that we have achieved much more as a nation of which we can be proud of than which we should be ashamed.

  John Howard

  Believe, Views, Racism

  Sir Robert Menzies Lecture, 1996.

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• I'm not so in with the prescriptive avant-garde agenda. I can do that sort of thing, but I feel that I'm still interested enough in song structure. When I look at a lyric on the page, the lyric is alive to me, looking like soldiers in a field. I can move it around, and it's very black-and-white.

  Scott Walker

  Song, Moving, Black And White

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• We have a black President in the United States. I think the world has matured. It's no longer about colour, but the person in the skin.

  Marlon Wayans

  Thinking, Skins, President

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The beauty of when you watch good television or films is that, yes, you may have a multi-cultural cast but those roles could be anybody - they could be white, they could be black. To show the world that we have more in common than we have different with each other is to me the ultimate goal of all of that. It does help unite in people's mind the thought that people are the same. Yes, there's going to be cultural differences, but for the most part, we are all in the same gang as human beings.

  Mekhi Phifer

  White, Differences, People

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I don't really care who collects my work, black, white, red, yellow. You have to also be consciously aware of, what does this mean in your home? And how are you supporting this work and the message behind the work?

  Nick Cave

  Home, Mean, Yellow

  "Nick Cave’s Object Permanence" by Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 19, 2014.

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• My film is very simple: An Eastern European story full of black humor about things everyone can feel and understand.

  Malgorzata Szumowska

  Simple, Stories, Film

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• When you first start to do jiu-jitsu everyone has the goal of being a black belt. You want to be great at everything you do.

  Junior dos Santos

  Goal, Want, Firsts

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