Black Quotes - Page 26

• 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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• Who among us is not at a loss for words? Tears pour out. Tears of joy. Tears of relief. A stunning, whopping landslide of hope in a time of deep despair. In a nation that was founded on genocide and then built on the backs of slaves, it was an unexpected moment, shocking in its simplicity: Barack Obama, a good man, a black man, said he would bring change to Washington, and the majority of the country liked that idea.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Loss, Men

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• Most of life is grey, with a little tiny bit of black and white. We're always subject to what I call the compression industry, which is an attempt to compress a million shades of grey with a little bit of black and white to just a hundred, or to ten, or to one!

  Bill Henson

  Black And White, Littles, Shade

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• Actually we've had a black bourgeoisie or the makings of a black bourgeoisie for many more decades.In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the US has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable. What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.

  Angela Davis

  Mean, Thinking, Class

  "Frontline", www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• Black folks are judged by quantity, not quality. It's a decimal point or figure. How different is that from slavery? There's no moral code, it's just about successful business for America.

  Chuck D

  Successful, America, Quality

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Honestly when you do it black and white, you really have to work your ass off. Because if you make it, make it good. Otherwise, don't pretend.

  Rie Rasmussen

  Black And White, Ass, Honestly

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• Because of its exceptional capacity for self-criticism, the West took the initiative in abolishing slavery; the calls for abolition did not resonate even in black Africa, where rival African tribes took black prisoners to be sold as slaves in the West.

  Ibn Warraq

  Self, African Tribes, Criticism

  Source: counterjihadreport.com

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• Often young black people are looking towards the alternative economies. They are looking towards the drug economy.... the economies that are going to that apparently will produce some kind of material gain for them.

  Angela Davis

  People, Drug, Gains

  Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.

  Angela Davis

  Thinking, Community, Needs

  Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• We can't talk about the black community. It's no longer a homogeneous community; it was never a homogeneous community.

  Angela Davis

  Community, Homogeneous, Black Community

  PBS Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• We cannot assume that people by virtue of the fact that they are black are going to associate themselves with progressive political struggles. We need to divest ourselves the kinds of strategies that assume that black unity black political unity is possible.

  Angela Davis

  Struggle, People, Political

  Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• I think it's a wonderful thing to have African-American characters. Look at life. It's not a white world or a black world; there are all kind of people in it. It's showing growth, and in today's world there are so many outlets.

  Darius McCrary

  Character, Thinking, White

  "The Darius McCrary Interview- The Young and the Restless". Interview with Michael Fairman, michaelfairmansoaps.com. December 22, 2009.

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• I was arrested and put in murder's row. They were trying to get me for some murders I didn't do. They had me in a cell next to Charles Manson; he was going to trial at the time. And it was all a row of black and brown guys and one white guy: Charles Manson.

  Luis J. Rodriguez

  Cells, White, Guy

  Source: bluemesareview.org

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• I don't think there has been any mayor in America scrutinized that way. I don't think there has been any mayor as a matter of fact, Coleman Young I think received an incredible amount of scrutiny and he was kind of the poster child for that in Detroit. He was the first Black mayor who really expressed his manhood in a different way than had been seen from African-American man that was projected across the country.

  Kwame Kilpatrick

  Country, Children, Men

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• It's not anything that is just perpetuated by White America or just perpetuated by Black America. It's just a cultural understanding that you're just not a part of the equation when it comes to sexuality and I think that people mistake your lack of opportunity with the level of your talent.

  Viola Davis

  Mistake, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• I think we're entering a new period of filmmaking that's analogous to switching from black-and-white to color, or from silent to sound. The medium is completely flexible, and it's not bound by anything. If you imagine something, you can do it.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Black And White, Thinking, Color

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Urban artist have to face the stigma not only from white Australia but black Australia too; that's horrific when people say that their art isn't "Aboriginal" if it doesn't have dots or lines or moieties in it.

  Warwick Thornton

  Art, White, Australia

  Source: aboriginalartandculture.wordpress.com

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• I don't like perpetuating the stereotype of black males being drug dealers, and criminals.

  Wesley Snipes

  Drug, Males, Criminals

  Source: collider.com

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• 'You spin in the sky, the world spins under you, and you step from land to land, while we . . .' She turned her head right, left, and her black hair curled and uncurled on the shoulder of her coat. 'We have our dull, circled lives, bound in gravity, worshiping you!'

  Samuel R. Delany

  Hair, Land, Sky

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• Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.

  George Chapman

  Eye, Jewels, Pearls

  George Chapman (1874). “The Works of George Chapman: Plays”, p.37

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• [Black Hawk] has fought for his countrymen, the squaws and papooses, against white men, who came year after year, to cheat them and take away their lands. You know the cause of our making war. It is known to all white men. They ought to be ashamed of it.

  Black Hawk

  War, Men, Years

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• Welcome to the real world, she said to me.
  Condescendingly.
  Take a seat.
  Take your life.
  Plot it out in black and white.

  John Mayer

  Real, Black And White, Plot

  Song: No Such Thing

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• I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are not black or white, they are in the large space that exists between.

  Kevin James

  Ambition, Character, Writing

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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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