Black Quotes - Page 32

• I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white.

  Damian Loeb

  Black And White, Color, People

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• ... we ought even to hold as a fixed principle that what I see white I believe to be black, if the superior authorities define it to be so.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Believe, White, Principles

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• In the tradition of Black Hawk Down, Malcolm MacPherson vividly brings to life this harrowing story of courage, pathos, and war at its grittiest. For military history buffs, or those interested in the front lines of the war on terror, Roberts Ridge is a must read.

  Jay Winik

  Military, War, Stories

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• I didn't form a group to perform Cilla Black songs.

  Johnny Marr

  Song, Groups, Form

  "Morrissey & Marr: The Severed Alliance". Book by Johnny Rogan, thequietus.com. 1992.

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• Einstein got most of the things right about black holes. I'm not an expert, I must admit

  Brian May

  Experts, Holes, Black Hole

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• Animals like crows, owls or black cats are not ominous at all; it is the men's superstitious mind which is the inauspicious one!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Cat, Men, Animal

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• My theory is that nine times out of ten, if there's a depression, more a social depression than anything, it brings out the best art in black people. The best example is, Reagan and Bush gave us the best years of hiphop.

  Questlove

  Art, Years, People

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn't an issue. No one would get into doing a black-and-white comic because they thought it might be a route to riches.

  Adrian Tomine

  Black And White, Years, Issues

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• For me, women's ski wear has always been black and, again, not as feminine or sexy as I think it could look while still having the technology there.

  Stella McCartney

  Sexy, Technology, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I think that we need more economic-based solutions to the problems afflicting the Black community, and I think that that's a way to redefine affirmative action. I grew up with poor white people in West Virginia, and I know there's a culture of poverty. I know that I've seen white people perform exactly the same pathological forms of behavior as Black people do when they're systematically deprived, whether it's getting pregnant, doing drugs, dropping out of school, whatever we're talking about. I think that we should have affirmative action for poor white people too.

  Henry Louis Gates

  School, Thinking, Virginia

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 21, 2013.

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• Everybody wants to have sex - you don't have to have a baby when you're 16. You don't have to do drugs. I think our Sunday schools should be turned into Black history schools and computer schools on the weekend, just like Hebrew schools for Jewish people, or my Asian friends who send their kids to schools on the weekend to learn Chinese or Korean.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Baby, Sex, School

  "Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 21, 2013.

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• We have to stop making excuses. One of the things that I'm careful to show is the horrendous effects of institutional and structural racism, but in the end, you can't wait for white man or a Black man to come riding in on a white horse to save you. We have to save ourselves, and that's the lesson of "The African Americans."

  Henry Louis Gates

  Horse, Men, White Man

  "Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 21, 2013.

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• As a journalist, I never critiqued anyone. I never review books. I've never felt qualified as a musician to say whether someone is a good musician or a bad musician. What happens with Black writers and Black artists is that if you're critiqued, for example, by a Black historian who wants to get his name on the cover of "The New York Times," and he says something, like, wacky, well, he'll get his name on the cover of "The New York Times" and he might get tenure, and your career suffers.

  James McBride

  New York, Book, Artist

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm one of the few Black writers, or African American writers, who managed to work my way through the system so that it has allowed me to speak in a kind of free way. But most African American writers don't have that. They don't have that opportunity, they don't have that.

  James McBride

  Opportunity, African American, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When I have my Afro and walk down the street, there's no doubt that I'm black. With this [straightened] hair, if I talk about being black on air, viewers write and say, "You're black?!" I feel [straightening your hair] is giving up a sense of your identity. Let's be honest: It's an effort to look Anglo-Saxon.

  Jami Floyd

  Giving Up, Writing, Hair

  "Your Race, Your Looks". Glamour's Women, Race and Beauty panel, www.glamour.com. February 3, 2008.

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• For black women our sense of ourselves is not always consistent with the way other people see us.

  Jami Floyd

  People, Way, Consistent

  "Your Race, Your Looks". Glamour's Women, Race and Beauty panel, www.glamour.com. February 3, 2008.

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• The music of the westerner comes from Africa, whether they like it or not. The majority of the instruments of the music, of the pop music, rock and roll, or R&B, hip hop, whatever it is, their roots trace back to Africa. So if you are black, white, yellow, or red, whatever you do, it doesn't matter, because your DNA is back in Africa.

  Angelique Kidjo

  Rocks, Dna, Rock And Roll

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• The Catholic Church had strict racial attitudes and intolerance for anybody who was not Catholic. When I look at a lot of Black ministers and what went on in the Black church, I was more caught up with those who were in Cadillacs and shiny suits than I was with those who were Kingian in their style.

  Harry Belafonte

  Attitude, Catholic, Style

  "Actor-activist Harry Belafonte, Part 2". "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. December 1, 2011.

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• People want black and white answers, but it's not one thing or another. I think the only way we're going to make good things is to inspire people and make them feel as though what they're watching is real.

  Kim Longinotto

  Real, Black And White, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• For Black people, we're one of the only groups of people that for some reason to express love of yourself, in some ways, is misconstrued as a dislike for someone else.

  Wynton Marsalis

  People, Groups, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I feel like the world we live in seems to be full of an increasingly grey area, but the culture that we live in seems to be getting really entrenched in black and white positions, and I think it's urgent to talk about that because it's going to kill us all.

  Paul Bettany

  Black And White, Thinking, Culture

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If you don't know what color to take, take black.

  Pablo Picasso

  Color, Knows, Ifs

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• Trump says he wants to run for president. Why not? It wouldn't be the first time he pushed a black family out of their home.

  Snoop Dogg

  Running, Home, President

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• Master Michelangelo once said that 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.' This is what we must do when we see an ignorant man: To set him free from the black marble we call ignorance!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ignorance, Angel, Men

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• No black or white America-just United States of America.

  Barack Obama

  White, America, United States

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