Black Quotes - Page 28

• Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.

  Adam Ant

  Dog, Stress, Bipolar

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• There are black Christians, and black Muslims in Africa who are being slaughtered, they don't want to hear about the Jim Crow laws. There are Christians, there are other Muslims being slaughtered in the Middle East, they don't need a lecture from Obama about Christianity. The fact of the matter is Obama is not doing anything effective or substantive to stop genocide in our time.

  Mark Levin

  Christian, Jim Crow Laws, Middle East

  "Mark Levin: Obama 'A Nihilist, A Narcissist And An Extremist;" Warns "We Are Going To Get Hit Again'". www.realclearpolitics.com. February 05, 2015.

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• Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide.

  Edward Young

  Suicide, Wings, Soul

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.103

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• This is what heaven's gonna be like. Not just a white church or a black church, but people.

  Mr. Wrestling

  White, People, Heaven

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• We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

  Scott Adams

  Ignorance, Views, Sea

  "The Call of Cthulhu". Short story by H.P. Lovecraft, www.hplovecraft.com. 1928.

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• I don't really care who collects my work, black, white, red, yellow. You have to also be consciously aware of, what does this mean in your home? And how are you supporting this work and the message behind the work?

  Nick Cave

  Home, Mean, Yellow

  "Nick Cave’s Object Permanence" by Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 19, 2014.

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• I have always liked black and white! It is simple and the colour of the piano.

  Hiromi

  Black And White, Simple, Piano

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• I really am a guy who can be black and white. I don't understand, too much, the gray. And truly I can go from one type of character to another type of character.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Character, Black And White, Guy

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 10, 2008.

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• Sometimes I'll hear a phrase or a word and write it down in my little black notebook (a writer's best mate), then come back to it and work a plot around it.

  Paul Kane

  Notebook, Writing, Plot

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• If black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people?

  Sister Souljah

  White, People, Why Not

  "Obama’s Terrorism Speech: Another Break With Democratic Party Orthodoxy" by Thomas B. Edsal, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• The beauty of when you watch good television or films is that, yes, you may have a multi-cultural cast but those roles could be anybody - they could be white, they could be black. To show the world that we have more in common than we have different with each other is to me the ultimate goal of all of that. It does help unite in people's mind the thought that people are the same. Yes, there's going to be cultural differences, but for the most part, we are all in the same gang as human beings.

  Mekhi Phifer

  White, Differences, People

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• We have a black President in the United States. I think the world has matured. It's no longer about colour, but the person in the skin.

  Marlon Wayans

  Thinking, Skins, President

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The colors black and white are my uniform, to honor the working class. People like my parents, who were janitors and had to wear a uniform every day. It keeps me grounded.

  Janelle Monae

  Black And White, Color, Class

  "Janelle Monae: 'Silence is our enemy, and sound is our weapon'" by Brittany Vickers, edition.cnn.com. October 22, 2015.

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• There's no reason why you can't say "August Wilson, playwright" even though all of my work, every single play, is about black Americans, about black American culture, about the black experience in America. I write about the black experience of men, or I write about black folks. That's who I am. In the same manner that Chekhov wrote about the Russians, I write about blacks. I couldn't do anything else. I wouldn't do anything else.

  August Wilson

  Writing, Men, Who I Am

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• There are a lot of people who believe that the individual can't make it himself. And that's why people want to join up in various herds - herd formation. So you become part of a herd, a group. Group power of some kind. There's an awful lot of group power people in our country [the USA] - Black power, Chinese power, Indian power, woman power. Everyone is putting in together.

  Frank Capra

  Country, Believe, Usa

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's funny because I went to a predominantly white school, but for some reason they always picked the musicals that were supposed to be done by totally black casts.

  Dane DeHaan

  School, White, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Some black filmmakers will say, "I don't want to be considered a black filmmaker, I'm a filmmaker." I don't think that. I'm a black woman filmmaker.

  Ava DuVernay

  Thinking, Want, Filmmaker

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm just as white as I am black, and I'm just as Russian Jew as I am West Indian.

  Lenny Kravitz

  White, West, Jew

  "New Again: Lenny Kravitz". Interview with Carly Wolkoff, Rick Rubin, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 20, 2012.

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• People do come up to me quite a lot. I get called all of it. I rarely get called my name; it's usually "Hey, Dr. Edwards!" or "Algernon." The most common thing is, "You're the black doctor on that show!" I'll take any of it, because I've definitely been called much worse things.

  Andre Holland

  Doctors, Names, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Alas, passion is conducive to certain other things because when you have too much passion and you have too much work, you possibly end up having black holes. The danger is too much passion.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Passion, Too Much, Danger

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Being a black filmmaker, one of the things I wanted to do with the movie is make sure I told it from a different perspective. I wanted to take myself out of it as a black male. I wanted to look at this movie through the eyes of Tully, to understand what he was thinking, and feel what he was feeling as much as I could.

  Deon Taylor

  Eye, Thinking, Perspective

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• In the time just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, when Perfidia opens, we were pre-psychologized. There were no concepts of identity, no politics of victimization. Reparation wasn't in the language. Nobody thought about giving the great grandchildren of black slaves so much as $1.98. And all of a sudden the bombs hit, interventionism versus isolationism became a dead issue, and it was us-versus-them in a heartbeat.

  James Ellroy

  Grandchildren, Issues, Giving

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• A lot of my friends were mostly working in black-and-white-people like Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, and others. We would exchange prints with each other, and they were always very supportive of what I was doing. What each of us was doing photographically was entirely different, but we were basically coming from the same place, sort of like a club.

  William Eggleston

  Black And White, People, Supportive

  Interview with Harmony Korine, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

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• When you are trying to get a shot, you can't be pleasing everybody. And I tend to be sort of collaborative and a bit of a pleaser. And when I'm directing, people just sort of call me Black Hat Gabriela. Because suddenly they're like, "What happened to you?" Because I stop listening. And I feel strident. I feel rude. And I feel un-collaborative.

  Liz W. Garcia

  People, Rude, Listening

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The novels have done so well because the drawings are abstract, black-and-white. This adds to the universality of the story. "Persepolis" also has dreamlike moments, and the drawings help maintain cohesion and consistency.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Black And White, Drawing, Consistency

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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