Black Quotes - Page 22

• I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being - neither white, black, brown, or red.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, White, Red

  Malcolm X (1992). “February 1965: the final speeches”, Pathfinder Pr

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• Hollywood is designed to check the box office on Monday morning and see: "How'd we do? How much?" It's another facet of this whole culture of accumulation and consumption. Black people are caught up in it, white people are caught up in it, white actors, black actors, female actresses - everybody's caught up in it.

  Danny Glover

  Monday, Morning, White

  Interview with Ed Rampell, progressive.org. February 8, 2012.

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• For me her image, the triptych, became a study of the weight the black male figure carries, given the fact that they are targeted by the police, and are constantly in danger of being misread in public spaces.

  Claudia Rankine

  Space, Police, Males

  "I am invested in keeping present the forgotten bodies". Interview with Ratik Asokan, logger.believermag.com. December 10, 2014.

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• I think that one of the positions we have taken around the question of race, is that we already know. We know. We know. We know. And so we don't need to look at it again. And yet everybody is still upset. Everybody is still being driven by their outrageous imagination to the point of killing people because they feel that a black man in front of them is a demon, or the Incredible Hulk.

  Claudia Rankine

  Taken, Men, Thinking

  "I am invested in keeping present the forgotten bodies". Interview with Ratik Asokan, logger.believermag.com. December 10, 2014.

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• The true France is a multicultural France. Where someone is appointed minister not because she is a woman but because she is competent. And not because she is from a visible minority. I am against positive discrimination. Someone can be intelligent and black, and someone can be an imbecile and white.

  Patrick Gaubert

  Intelligent, White, Minorities

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When I was a kid and we played baseball we used to use that "eye black" stuff sometimes - that kind of grease you put under your eyes to reduce glare or something. We only used it, of course, to look cool; it's not like we were any better prepubescent athletes for reducing glare.

  Ben Lerner

  Baseball, Athlete, Kids

  "Despair strikes me as eminently reasonable and boring". Interview with Tao Lin, believermag.com. September 2014.

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• The most important thing in my life is that trying to ameliorate, redeem, the image in particular of African American men, or Black men - I don't really even like that term, "African American," because we're Black people.

  Harry Lennix

  Men, People, African American

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The Black church is extremely important in Black America. I think most Americans themselves believe in a divine power, in a god, and I'm sure that that number increases with Black people.

  Harry Lennix

  Believe, Thinking, Numbers

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I like to have a spray bottle filled with apple juice to spray onto my meat. Whether it's pork, chicken, or beef, it adds flavor. Also, it helps keep your meat a real golden mahogany-looking color and prevents it from turning black.

  Johnny Trigg

  Real, Color, Apples

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• A good hamburger mix: add equal parts black pepper, granulated garlic, grilled onion, onion powder and some chopped onion. And mix in a little barbecue sauce, which will add even more great flavor.

  Johnny Trigg

  Add, Onions, Flavor

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• Casting is really a black art. It's a huge part of directing and it's the most invisible. It's one that people don't really think about or talk about. But you can really destroy your movie by casting it badly before you've shot a foot of film. And yet there are no guidebooks for it, there's no rule book to tell you how to do it. It's all your own experience and your own sensibility and your own intuition.

  David Cronenberg

  Art, Book, Thinking

  "Cronenberg Talks Intellectual Menage a Trois A Dangerous Method, Knightley’s Bondage". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. November 26, 2011.

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• It is an impressive place that smells like the 1950s, when everyone wore starch white shirts and black slacks and perfect crewcuts and worked on massive industrial projects

  Elf Sternberg

  White, Smell, Perfect

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• As an astronomer, I get to ignore the details of the things that we dont understand. Theres a lot of work that we can do on scales that we do understand, and there is actually a finite size that I can associate with a super massive black hole.

  Andrea M. Ghez

  Size, Details, Scales

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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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• We got to face some facts. That the masses are poor, that the masses belong to what you call the lower class, and when I talk about the masses, I'm talking about the white masses, I'm talking about the black masses, and the brown masses, and the yellow masses, too. We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity. We say you don't fight capitalism with no black capitalism; you fight capitalism with socialism.

  Fred Hampton

  Fighting, Fire, Talking

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• Gangsta rap was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. Gangsta rap didnt exist.

  Alicia Keys

  Rap, Gangsta, People

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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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• Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees that some said walked in the night.

  Neil Gaiman

  Heart, Night, Tree

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• There are so many aspects of human sexuality that we're afraid to talk about, because people still don't understand it. It's not just black and white, you know?

  Sasha Grey

  Black And White, People, Sexuality

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• Liberalism and their ideas have done more to kill black folks whom they claim so much to love than the Ku Klux Klan, lynching and slavery and Jim Crow ever did, now that’s a fact.

  E.W. Jackson

  Lynching, Ideas, Ku Klux Klan

  "Thies: Ew, Virginia! E.W. Jackson" by Chuck Thies, www.nbcwashington.com. June 26, 2013.

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• I've never thought that I would see any man of color, not just a black president, but any man of color, I never thought that I would live to see that. I thought maybe my grandchildren would, but I never thought I would. So when Barack Obama first started to run I was like, "I've never heard of this guy - he probably doesn't have a shot." But then he started picking up steam and that piqued my interest.

  Donte Stallworth

  Running, Grandchildren, Men

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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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• 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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• ... 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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• The black people's struggle has vanquished racism. It was God who created colour. Today Obama, a son of Kenya, a son of Africa, has made it in the United States of America.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Struggle, Son, America

  "Kadhafi closes AU summit, division over plans for 'United States of Africa'". www1.rfi.fr. February 4, 2009.

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