Black Quotes - Page 33

• Black churches minister to social needs out of necessity.

  Barack Obama

  Church, Needs, Social

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• I'm not racist, I've got a black president.

  Dane Cook

  President, Racist

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• Colour disturbs people. I am confident in black, not in light. This dark side of life is attractive to me forever and from the beginning. I am a lazy designer when it comes to colour.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Dark, Light, People

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• I love black lingerie and white shoes, and I love knives.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Knives, Shoes, White

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• I'm the ghetto Martha Stewart, the black Rachel Ray.

  Coolio

  Ghetto, Rays, Black Ghetto

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• For me, Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' defines New York. Both New York and Manhattan Island should be in black in white! I always hear the soundtrack of Gershwin in my head every time I go over the Queensboro Bridge, or come in from JFK because of it!

  Brian Cox

  New York, Islands, Bridges

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• There is only one direction. (Down.) There is only one color. (Black.) And there is only one number (Zero.)

  Errol Morris

  Zero, One Direction, Color

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• Some black people want to get in touch with their African roots. But then you got some black people that just don't give a damn. You tell them, 'Hey, I just got back from the motherland.' "They're like, 'Where'd you go - Detroit? Did you see The Temptations?'

  Wanda Sykes

  Damn You, Roots, People

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• The black kids, the poor white kids, Spanish-speaking kids, and Asian kids in the US - in the face of everything to the contrary, they still bop and bump, shout and go to school somehow. Their optimism gives me hope.

  Maya Angelou

  Kids, School, White

  "Visions: Maya Angelou". Interview With Ken Kelley, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1995.

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• Now each one of us, black or white, is a symbol. The war is out in the open and the skin color is a uniform. All the deep and basic similarities of the human condition are forgotten so that we can exaggerate the few differences that exist.

  John D. MacDonald

  War, White, Differences

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• Victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed.

  Robert Kennedy

  Black And White, Important, Violence

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• Fifty-five crystal spheres geared to God's crankshaft is my idea of a satisfying universe. I can't think of anything more trivial than quarks, quasars, big bangs and black holes.

  Tom Stoppard

  Thinking, Ideas, Bangs

  Tom Stoppard (1999). “Tom Stoppard: plays”

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• I don't have one specific tattooing specialty. I enjoy doing full-color new school, portraits, neo-traditional, realistic, black and gray, ultra detailed art, etc... but always custom.

  William Webb

  Art, School, Color

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• One of the facets of growing up the way I did, I never had the experience of being solely in the black community. Even my family, my mother is what they call Creole, so she's part French, part black, and grew up in Louisiana. It's a very specific kind of blackness that is different than what is traditionally thought of as the black community and black culture. So, I never felt a part of whatever that was.

  Justin Simien

  Mother, Growing Up, Community

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I rely on some words that actually my husband said to me. He jokes about saying, "You know it's only darkest before it's totally black!" Even in my darkest hour - and my darkest hour was probably when I lost both my parents - I look to him and I see what he has endured, what he has overcome, what he is doing with his life, and just how he's lived his life.

  Cindy McCain

  Husband, Parent, Looks

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• I never really was good at being a family general man, really. I hardly ever spent any time with my mum and dad whatever, really, or brothers or sisters. We just really didn't get along. I was pretty much like the black sheep of the family, to be honest.

  Andrew Chan

  Brother, Dad, Men

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• The black and white lemur, the one that relaxes on that branch, they actually have day care, like kindergartens; where all the mothers come together and they put all the babies into this one nest and they let dad watch it while they go out and have food and have a good time and then they come back in a few hours. We've never seen that in other primates.

  Patricia Wright

  Mother, Baby, Dad

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• Someone once bought me loads of clothes from a charity shop - and sent them to me in a black bin liner. That was weird. I went through it and it was full of bizarre outfits like Abba costumes.

  Suzanne Shaw

  Clothes, Charity, Costumes

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I want to keep changing the world. It's possible. The black gay lead is ready. It's time.

  Billy Porter

  Gay, World, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• The day before I left to fly in New York, I went in the ocean and was just lying on my black looking up at the sky, which was that Hawaii blue. Just that moment was worth the entire thing. The ocean is everything. It can heal you.

  Gavin Rossdale

  New York, Lying, Ocean

  Source: collider.com

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• If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.

  Edgar Degas

  Black And White, Way, My Own

  Edgar Degas (1963). “Degas”

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• Science is nothing more than a method of inquiry. The method says an assertion is valid - and will be universally accepted - only if it can be reproduced by others, and thereby independently verified. The impersonal rigor of the method has produced enormously powerful results for 400 years. The scientific method is utterly apolitical. A truth in science is verifiable whether you are black or white, male or female, old or young. It’s verifiable whether you know the experimenter, or whether you don’t.

  Michael Crichton

  Mean, Acceptance, White

  Michael Crichton's Testimony before the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, www.epw.senate.gov. September 28, 2005.

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• The majority of South Africans, black and white, recognize that apartheid has no future. It has to be ended by our own decisive mass action in order to build peace and security. The mass campaign of defiance and other actions of our organization and people can only culminate in the establishment of democracy.

  Nelson Mandela

  Black And White, Order, Organization

  Rally Address Following Release From Pollsmoor Prison, delivered 11 February 1990, Cape Town, South Africa

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• While the Right of Suffrage is conceded to thousands notoriously ignorant, vicious, and drunken, ... a Constitutional denial to Black men, as such, of Political Rights freely secured to White men, is monstrously unjust and irrational.

  Horace Greeley

  Men, Rights, White Man

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• 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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