Black Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• I didn't want any middle-of-the-road creep. I always wanted the toughest guy in school, the guy from south Philly who wore tight black pants. Y'know, the guy who carried the umbrella and wore white shirts with real thin black ties. I was really nuts over this guy named Butchie Magic 'cause he let me carry his switchblade.

  Patti Smith

  Real, School, White

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

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• I always thought the best kind of sunglasses are the motorcycle helmets with the black plastic masks on them. That way, nobody can recognize the back of your head either.

  Bob Dylan

  Motorcycle, Way, Sunglasses

  Bob Dylan “The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career”

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• Thine eyes I love, and they as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black, and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain.

  William Shakespeare

  Sad, Pain, Heart

  William Shakespeare (1858). “Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems”, p.648

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• I love seeing black people do normal things, being judged as normal people.

  Chris Rock

  People, Normal, Being Judged

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• Here's the problem: the description of the world is always reduced to yes or no, black or white. Superficial stories. Superhero stories. One side is the good one. The other one is evil.

  Marjane Satrapi

  White, Evil, Superhero

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.

  Agnes Varda

  Two, People, Firsts

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• It seems that people are more comfortable with the private outrage about gay marriage, because when you are outraged about this issue, it requires no work. There's no work that you have to do when you're outraged about a gay couple. There is work that you have to do if you want to see black fathers raise their children. There is work that you have to do if you want to see a school develop.

  Otis Moss III

  Children, Couple, Father

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Ever since the civil rights movement, the black church has always encouraged people to utilize their voting right, which is a right that was fought for.

  Otis Moss III

  Rights, People, Voting

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• You know how Mexican restaurants always have "border" in the name: Border Grill, Border Cafe. You wouldn't do that to black people: Kunta's Kitchen or Shackles. They don't do it to white people. You don't see the Honkey Grill, the Cracker Barrel... oh, nevermind.

  George Lopez

  Funny, Humor, Names

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• My dad was a complicated man. He was a huge racist, my dad, but he still tried to be a good father, you know? Like, he would tell me that Santa Claus was black - that way, when I found out he didn't exist, it wouldn't be that big a let down.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Funny, Dad, Father

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• That's why I'm glad Jesus died when he did. Because if he lived to be 40, he would have ended up like Elvis. He was famous already at that point. If he lived to be 40, he'd be walking around Jerusalem with a big fat beer gut and black side burns going, Damn, I'm the son of God. Give me a cheeseburger and french fries right now.

  Denis Leary

  Funny, Jesus, Humor

  "Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer". m.imdb.com. 1993.

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• At least black people knew when they were slaves; you remain clueless.

  Doug Stanhope

  Funny, Clueless, Humor

  "Doug Stanhope: No Refunds". Documentary, Comedy, 2007.

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• I got arrested for playing chess in the street. I said, it's because I'm black, isn't it.

  Milton Jones

  Funny, Humor, Playing Chess

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• Why is it that it's okay to call a white person "mate" yet it's not okay to call a black guy "primate"?

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Humor, White

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• Being the first person to go to college that really related to me from the movie [The Butler] because being black and going to college everyone puts so much hope into you.

  Lee Daniels

  College, Firsts, Butlers

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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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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• Black people have this thing about calling themselves apes and monkeys I know they get real (whatever) and I don't blame em'. But I feel like I'm a brute. I am, but I'm smart though. I'm not a dummy.

  Sean Price

  Real, Smart, People

  Source: www.okayplayer.com

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• Something struck me in Africa, in black Africa, where polygamy is legal: the solitary woman is the rule there, from at an extremely young age, and the children are always the mother's responsibility.

  Dacia Maraini

  Mother, Children, Responsibility

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

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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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• Most of life is grey, with a little tiny bit of black and white.

  Bill Henson

  Black And White, Littles, Tiny

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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