Black Quotes - Page 27

• For me going down in history being the first black American to win the gold, I think more colored people are going to start coming to the gymnastics world and say 'okay, anything is possible. If Gabby did it, then I can do it too.'

  Gabby Douglas

  Gymnastics, Winning, Thinking

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• No one is black and white or good or bad or happy or sad or what have you. [All have] particular idiosyncrasies that make them fascinating and that's how I tend to approach a character.

  Cary Elwes

  Character, Black And White, Approach

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• You have a white guy as an announcer and sportscaster. Me, I'm black. I do it and I've already done some stuff in the past. We're more expressive than the white guys. You look at the skill players. We're the ones that get into the end zone. We get in the end zone more than they do.

  Terrell Owens

  Past, Player, Skills

  "Top 10: Big Mouths In Sports" by Phil Helm, www.askmen.com.

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• Let's be honest: For a lot of well-meaning, open-minded white people, the sight of a young, black man in a hoodie still evokes a twinge of fear.

  Hillary Clinton

  Men, Sight, White

  "2016 candidates, it's time to talk about race". Hillary Clinton's speech at the 83rd annual U.S. Conference of Mayors, www.cnbc.com. June 26, 2015.

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• There is no morality in the mushroom cloud. The black rain of nuclear ashes will fall alike on the just and the unjust. And then it will be too late to wish that we had done the real work of this atomic age, which is to seek a world that is neither red nor dead.

  Edward Kennedy

  Real, Rain, Fall

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• Growing up, I was always the only black kid on my team and (sometimes) I'd get questions from my friends when I'd say, `I want to be in the NHL' and they'd say, `Well, there are no black people or not very many in the NHL' and as a kid, you'd wonder why. But overall, I didn't really face any racial difficulties. Nothing too bad or too lasting.

  Jarome Iginla

  Growing Up, Team, Kids

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• I was a lost child. I wasn't accepted in the black community because I was Korean, and I wasn't accepted in the Korean community because I was black

  Hines Ward

  Children, Community, Korean

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• Being tall and big was probably more painful than being black.

  Wendy Williams

  Painful, Bigs, Tall

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• You have to have quarterbacks who can keep up with everybody else. And I'm not saying that just black quarterbacks can do that, but more black quarterbacks are given a chance because they fit the mold.

  Daunte Culpepper

  Mold, Chance, Fit

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• The minute you start getting in trouble, you can't try to do new stuff. You can't try to make a nasty pitch or 'paint the black' because that's when you fall behind. You have to stick with what works for you and go after hitters like there's nobody on base.

  Mark Mulder

  Fall, Trying, Stuff

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• We must stand up and say, "I'm black and I'm beautiful," and this self-affirmation is the black man's need, made compelling by the white man's crimes against him.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Beautiful, Men, Self

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.199, Beacon Press

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• Darkness, whether in mood or in night, is natural.  So if we flow with the black bile of melancholia and endure the terrible darkness of depression, eventually we will break through into the light of joy.  This is the Tao (the Way) of darkness or depression--this is the Mystery of its evolution.

  Arnold Mindell

  Night, Light, Break Through

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• Nirvana is the utter extinction of all that is base in us, all that is vicious in us. Nirvana is not like the black, dead peace of the grave, but the living peace, the living happiness of a soul which is conscious of itself and conscious of having found its own abode in the heart of the Eternal.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Soul, Extinction

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• All I've ever tried to tell anyone is that I'm not a black man or a white man or anything else. All I've ever been was an American.

  George Foreman

  Men, White Man, White

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• You think it's hard for me when I go in the ring and fight? That's the least of my problems. I think about the five years that I did in prison. I think about the nine years on parole. Nothing - nothing! - can compare to that struggle. I'm telling you, from being an ex-convict with 30 convictions, a degree nowhere to be found and black? I'm done.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Struggle, Fighting, Thinking

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• Being a blues singer is like being black two times.

  B. B. King

  Two, Singers

  Quoted in TheWit and Wisdom of Rock and Roll, ed. Maxim Jabukowski (1983)

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• This great son of the world, Madiba, showed us the way. Whether you are white, black yellow or brown you are all God's children, come together, work together and God will show you the way.

  Kenneth Kaunda

  Children, Son, Yellow

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• If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.

  Booker T. Washington

  Christian, Men, Years

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• The right, like Pat Buchanan and Rush Limbauggh, use women and the black man and the Hispanic immigrant and the gay man as a scapgoat for society's ills. They pretend it's about traditional family values, but that's a bullshit phrase that means nothing to me. They like to use us all. They use pro-life as a way to hate women and slam women, dressed up in the nobility of saving unborn fetuses. I think it's just misogyny.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Hate, Mean, Gay

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• That first company I started made a lot of money for the venture capitalists - nearly $30 million - but next to nothing for the founders. The companies I started after that varied between failures and mediocre successes. But at no point did I ever consider getting a 'real job.' That felt like a black and white world, and I wanted Technicolor.

  Michael Arrington

  Jobs, Real, Black And White

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• I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Jumping, Smell, Firsts

  "Fabulous Friends". Interview with Chloë Sevigny, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 22, 2014.

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• If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Nice, Would Be, Way

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• Rather than spend so much time wondering if I'm going to get hired, or is it a problem that I've got this black-tar history, I've just got to keep doing what I'm doing and try to be decent.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Trying, Problem, Wonder

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• I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.

  Lucille Clifton

  Sound, Black Women, Poet

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• As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tombstones. The shape of the letters on my father's, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair. From the character and turn of the inscription, "Also Georgiana Wife of the Above", I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly.

  Charles Dickens

  Mother, Father, Tombstone

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.7092, Delphi Classics

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