Black Quotes - Page 29

• I think back to back romantic comedies are good for black film.

  Taye Diggs

  Thinking, Comedy, Film

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Obviously, I can't tell the story of what it is to be a black girl, but maybe I can tell something else. Girlhood is not about what it's like to be a black girl, it's about what it's like to be a girl.

  Celine Sciamma

  Girl, Black Girl

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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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• That's just like America. It's made up of lots of different people. We're all different colors, different ages, we do different jobs -- but it takes all of us black people, white people, brown people, men and women, young and old, working in the factories, working in the fields, working in offices, working in stores -- it takes a lot of different kinds of people to get the job done for America.

  Jesse Jackson

  Jobs, Men, Color

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• The black hole in democracy is integrity. The great unspoken is integrity. When integrity is not first and foremost, it's quite palpable but not visible. It's always there. Jazz highlights it because musicians and jazz always represented a high level of integrity.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Integrity, Democracy, Musician

  Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

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• It [Cambridge] wasn't a holy grail in the sense that I'd never been to Cambridge. But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.

  Alan Bennett

  Holy Grail, Frost, Wonderful

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Macroscopic objects, as we see them all around us, are governed by a variety of forces, derived from a variety of approximations to a variety of physical theories. In contrast, the only elements in the construction of black holes are our basic concepts of space and time. They are, thus, almost by definition, the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe.

  Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

  Space, Perfect, Elements

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• Who would have thought when they came to the fight?
  That they'd witness the launching of a human satellite.

  Muhammad Ali

  Fighting, Satellites, Witness

  "The Soul Of A Butterfly". Book by Book by Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali, 2004.

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• Be loud, be pretty and keep their black-hatin' asses in their chairs

  Muhammad Ali

  Ass, Chairs, Loud

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• Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Humanity, Vivisection, Creation

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• For horror to work, you have to be afraid. You have to keep the monster in a black and white light.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Black And White, Light, Monsters

  Source: deadline.com

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• I could do all of my activities at Howard because it was an environment that had essentially rid the ideology of false choices that I feel absolutely constricts young black students.

  Kamala Harris

  Choices, Students, Environment

  "The Lenny Interview: Kamala Harris, the Senate Hopeful, Going After Revenge Porn". Interview with Doreen St. Félix, www.elle.com. October 23, 2015.

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• Imagine a crime series in which, every week, there is a white suspect and a black suspect. And every week, lo and behold, the black one turns out to have done it. Unpardonable, of course. And my point is that you could not defend it by saying: "But it's only fiction, only entertainment."

  Richard Dawkins

  White, Entertainment, Fiction

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• Design in black and white. Add color for emphasis, when your design is complete.

  Diane Wilson

  Black And White, Color, Design

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• Unfortunately, I don't train enough on an everyday basis to be a black belt, but if I put my mind to it I think I could definitely move very quickly in that world.

  Milla Jovovich

  Moving, Thinking, Everyday

  Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 2, 2009.

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• I didn't like The Wiz and it wasn't because black people were doing it. I didn't like The Wiz because it was a badly made movie off a classic. Why are you remaking something unless you have something better in mind?

  Harry Belafonte

  People, Mind, Wiz

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• We're historians and above all want to write about what was. Our book doesn't deal with legacies. It also wasn't our goal to destroy a legend. We consider Walesa to be a national symbol. He led Solidarity and remains an icon. But he also worked with the secret police under the name Bolek. The truth isn't always simply black and white.

  Slawomir Cenckiewicz

  Book, Writing, Black And White

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• That's the nature of my [stand-up] act: black man with a white baby.

  W. Kamau Bell

  Baby, Men, White

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• I was born a poor black child.

  Al Gore

  Children, Jerk, Comedy Movie

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• I'm a woman of color. I've lived in black neighborhoods all of my life, and most of the time I get hit on in my neighborhood - and mostly by black men. And so I wanted to have my specific experience and my perspective on street harassment out there.

  Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

  Men, Color, Perspective

  "Meet the Woman Who Waged an Artistic War Against Her Street Harassers". Interview with Nina Liss-Schultz, www.motherjones.com. November 27, 2013.

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• Specifically for black women, our images and our bodies in the media and in history have been so hypersexualized.

  Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

  Media, Body, Has Beens

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Do not be naive. AIDS is not a curse from God to Africans or the black people. It is a tool to control them designed by some evil-minded scientists, but we may not know who particularly did it.

  Wangari Maathai

  People, Evil, Tools

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• Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man's quest for wealth and an easy life they have been ruthlessly suppressed and exploited, degraded into slavery. The modern prejudice against Negroes is the result of the desire to maintain this unworthy condition.

  Albert Einstein

  Home, Men, White

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.37, Open Road Media

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• My son don't have to say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud. He don't have to be called those crazy names.

  James Brown

  Crazy, Son, Names

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• I was a kid who liked art and theater and dance and music, but if you lived in Harlem, high culture was somewhere else, and it wasn't black.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Art, Kids, Somewhere Else

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