Black Quotes - Page 24

• Nothing is more powerful than the black church experience. A good choir and a good sermon in the black church, it's pretty hard not to be move and be transported.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Moving, Church

  Interview with Cathleen Falsani, www.beliefnet.com. March 27, 2004.

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• Things are shifting; man is evolving in many different ways. The Internet has created a portal for people to connect with each other in a way they never could have before. When it comes to African-American or black films, it's different because there is a model that you can actually look at, an equation that shows that these films earn money.

  Forest Whitaker

  Men, People, African American

  Source: deadline.com

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• One thing my mother always instilled in me is to always know my worth. Don't settle for less. She used to say to me 'Iman, no is a complete sentence, learn to say no. You don't have to explain it you don't have to say anything after it. It's a complete sentence.' So when I came to America 1975, I found out that the black models were being paid less than white models. So the first thing I did was say I'm not going to do the job unless I'm paid the same amount.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Mother, Jobs, White

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• I think we fought Vietnam for the benefits of civilization, and certainly we fought it to oppose authority. To show our authority, to show we weren't weak. Isn't that what Nixon kept saying? "We have to show the world that we're not weak." So of course what we ended up showing the world was that we were, yep, weak. 'Cause we couldn't beat these kids in black pajamas.

  Stephen King

  Kids, Thinking, Civilization

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• I listen to my iPod as I walk on. If I'm winning I'll listen to the same song, that's like a good luck thing - usually The Black Eyed Peas' Let's Get It Started.

  Andy Murray

  Song, Good Luck, Winning

  "INTERROGATION: Andy Murray". Mirror Online Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. July 1, 2007.

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• I'm not thinking about forcing my kids to watch my movies. It's always awkward when someone says: "Hey, I wrote a song, can I play it for you?" That would be the dynamic, if I was like: "Hey, you're my son, watch my work!" I don't want to put them in that awkward position. Just because when they get older, that's when I'm worried, that they'll judge me and say: "Yeah, my father's ******* Jack Black. He was in that cheesy movie." So, I'm going to keep it all high quality. It'll be a quality controller.

  Jack Black

  Song, Father, Kids

  "Kung Fu Panda - Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman and Ian McShane interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Generally, it's not good to be engaged directly with the political system unless you are qualified. It`s a very depressing business, the way politics works. You get stuck into it, but then, at some point, you have to walk away. I had to walk away, because it's like this dark, black energy void. There are some people who have dedicated their lives to living in that energy void, but I can't do it. I just can't go there. It feels like you're treading water too much when you do. It's a crazy thing.

  Thom Yorke

  Depressing, Crazy, Dark

  "Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Ed O'Brien". Interview with Chris Mincher, music.avclub.com. July 01, 2008.

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• I've really dreamed of doing television. All of us do television, coming up. But when I was coming up, television was a black hole for actors. Now, television has a certain cache. Now everybody wants to be on TV because they're doing adult dramas. If you're an actor, it's like, "Well, get me on television," because it's the only place you can do it and also make a living at it. If my kids need shoes, I better do a TV show because I damn sure don't make any money with independent films.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Drama, Kids, Independent

  "Billy Bob Thornton Talks Status of BAD SANTA 2 and Signing on for FX’s FARGO Miniseries". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 7, 2013.

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• Rock and roll came in and changed my life and changed the whole music scene forever, and then I grew to love R&B and Motown and all black music, gospel music. But I never dismiss any form of music. I listen to everything.

  Elton John

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Forever

  "Interview: Elton John Talks Gnomeo And Juliet And His Long Career". Interview with Cole Haddon, www.mtv.com. February 09, 2011.

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• I think this is what people misunderstand about Martin Luther King saying to love your enemies. They think he was just using this silly little phrase, but what he meant was that as Black Americans we need to let our anger go, because holding on to it we hold ourselves down. We oppress ourselves by holding on to anger.

  Bell Hooks

  Kings, Silly, Love You

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

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• A very hurting thing for Black Americans - to feel that we can't love our enemies. People forget what a great tradition we have as African-Americans in the practice of forgiveness and compassion. And if we neglect that tradition, we suffer.

  Bell Hooks

  Hurt, Compassion, Practice

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

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• I'm not really a political-type person, meaning that I don't really make great stands or whatever, but if you ask me a direct question I say it shouldn't matter who you are, whether you're black, white, green, gay, male, female. If you can do a job and do it well you should be paid for it, you should be respected for it, and you have to be responsible. I think sometimes people can go too fare trying to make a point. I think they should just make their point and go on about.

  Dolly Parton

  Jobs, Gay, Thinking

  "New Again: Dolly Parton". Interview with Andy Warhol, Maura Moynihan, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 18, 2012.

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• I know this is weird... I am a Black woman and I am not mixed with any Asian blood or Chinese blood at all, but for some reason, as a child, the movie, The Last Emperor, had a serious affect on me. I can't understand why. But there's something that the movie did to me.

  Tyra Banks

  Children, Blood, Chinese

  "Model to Mogul and Beyond". Interview with Ty-Ron Mayes, westeastmag.com. October 27, 2012.

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• I was in Paris last year, where there's a great appreciation of many different aspects of African culture and of black culture. The music... the art... whatever... And I kind of went with that.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Appreciation, Art, Years

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• My mother always told me to embrace both sides of my background. And she also taught me one very useful thing when I was going to first grade. She said, "You're Bahamian and African-American on one side, and Russian-Jewish on the other. You're no more one than the other, and it's beautiful that you have all this. It makes your life all the more rich. But society will see you only as black."

  Lenny Kravitz

  Beautiful, Mother, African American

  "Lenny Kravitz: The ‘Precious’ Interview With Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, www.eurweb.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Relationships are not straight forward. They're not black and white. Sometimes things don't always going in a straight line, and that's okay. Love can be very confusing.

  Danica McKellar

  Black And White, Confusing, Lines

  "Danica McKellar, Olivia d’Abo and Alley Mills Talk THE WONDER YEARS, How the Show Impacted Their Lives, and the 23 Hours of Bonus Features on the DVD". Interview, collider.com. September 23, 2014.

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• It is imperative that young white men and women study the black American history. It is imperative that blacks and whites study the Asian American history.

  Maya Angelou

  Men, White Man, Asian

  "America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

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• In my opinion while lynchings were quite possibly the most heinous crimes ever witnessed in American history, they helped in bringing people together for a sole purpose. It was because of these lynchings that armed self-resistance was created. If white people knew black people were capable of fighting back then there was less of a chance that violence actually would break out.

  Assata Shakur

  Fighting, Lynching, Self

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• Black people still call me Prince. Sometimes I ask them, "Why do you call me Prince?" And people say, "Because you are a prince to us." Usually when they say that, you know my heart goes out and I have to say, "I don't mind your calling me that."

  Prince

  Heart, People, Mind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I try to focus less on the actual items and more on the way they make me feel. I like color around my face because it does something to me emotionally. I don't like to wear black because it brings me down.

  Nicole Richie

  Color, Focus, Trying

  Source: community.qvc.com

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• The world we live in is made up of polar opposites, black/white, male/female, night/day, and a human being who possesses both masculine and feminine – vulnerability and strength – is intriguing to us, whether they be a singer or actor or dancer, intrigues us, because THAT Is who we really are.

  RuPaul

  Night, Masculine And Feminine, Opposites

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. September 17, 2014.

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• Either you are a victim or you victimize someone and in the hood it's no holds barred. The kid in the schoolyard that doesn't want to fight always leaves with a black eye.

  Curtis Jackson

  Kids, Eye, Fighting

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• A lot of people who work with wildlife work with wildlife to satisfy their own egos. And I don't really agree with that. What I do is get in nice and close to the animal to make the animal look good. My aim in this world is to make that brown snake, that crocodile, that koala, that red-backed spider, that black widow, look good. That's my job. I have absolutely no problem with my ego or my staff's ego.

  Steve Irwin

  Jobs, Nice, Animal

  Source: www.reptilesmagazine.com

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• For the most part I write very stream of consciousness. I basically need to be recording an entire writing session because it's almost like I black out and just start singing whatever is on my mind and forget it as soon as I stop.

  Beth Moore

  Writing, Mind, Singing

  Source: canadianbeats.ca

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• Black Americans should be given credit for finding probably the perfect weapon; the weapon of the song. And that song continues. Most holocausts don't, so they have this bitterness left over. The phenomenon of the world, as far as Black Americans are considered, is that we are not a bitter people.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Song, Perfect, People

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