Black Quotes - Page 33

• Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can't get out, but the puzzle that many struggled with over the decades is, what happens to the information that an object contains when it falls into a black hole. Is it simply lost?

  Brian Greene

  Fall, Information, Lost

  "Theoretical Physicist Brian Greene Thinks You Might Be a Hologram". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. May 16, 2012.

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• Black holes are very exotic objects. Technically, a black hole puts a huge amount of mass inside of zero volume. So our understanding of the center of black holes doesn't make sense, which is a big clue to physicists that we don't have our physics quite right.

  Andrea M. Ghez

  Zero, Understanding, Exotic

  "Galactic Explorer Andrea Ghez". NOVAInterview, www.pbs.org. October 31, 2006.

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• I don't think that mass drug taking is a good idea. But I think that we must have a deputized minority, a shamanic professional class if you will, whose job is to bring ideas out of the deep black water and show them off to the rest of us and perform for our culture some of the cultural functions that shaman perform in pre-literate cultures.

  Terence McKenna

  Jobs, Thinking, Class

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• Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and the second half refusing to let black people define me.

  Thomas Sowell

  White, People, Firsts

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• My musical taste is like a 16-year-old girl's when it comes to working out - Rihanna, Black Eyed Peas, Miley Cyrus. I love it all!

  Jessica Capshaw

  Girl, Years, Work Out

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• Once, my little sister was walking down the street in her thick black glasses, and a homeless man muttered, Talk nerdy to me.

  Lena Dunham

  Men, Glasses, Little Sister

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.161, Random House

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• Everybody has a little bit of the sun and moon in them. Everybody has a little bit of man, woman, and animal in them. Darks and lights in them. Everyone is part of a connected cosmic system. Part earth and sea, wind and fire, with some salt and dust swimming in them. We have a universe within ourselves that mimics the universe outside. None of us are just black or white, or never wrong and always right. No one. No one exists without polarities. Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them.

  Suzy Kassem

  Swimming, Animal, Moon

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• A minimum-wage law, a law that prevents employers and employees from entering into mutually beneficial economic exchanges, is as far from a free market or free enterprise as one can get. That's why it causes so much damage and destruction, especially to black teenagers and others whose labor, for one reason or another, is valued by employers at less than the government-established minimum wage.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Teenager, Government, Law

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• It was really bizarre. I was learning how to be a black guy from a white guy pretending to be a black man.

  Lenny Henry

  Men, White, Guy

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• To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Beautiful, Men, Sweaters

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• I've had frank conversations with theaters who say, 'We love your play, but we've already done a play by another black person this year,' or 'I don't think the kind of people you write about are the ones our audience wants to see'... Up and coming young black female writers are still struggling to have their voices heard and have their plays produced.

  Katori Hall

  Struggle, Love You, Writing

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• The blues - there's no black and white - it's the truth.

  Van Morrison

  Black And White, White

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• If it wasn't for the British musicians, a lot of us black musicians in America would still be catchin' the hell that we caught long before. So thanks to them, thanks to all you guys. You opened doors that I don't think would have been opened in my lifetime. When white America started paying attention to the blues - it started opening a lot of doors that had been closed to us.

  B. B. King

  Thinking, White, America

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• Rock'n'roll is nothing but Boogie Woogie with stuff on top of it. And if you're black, they name it rhythm'n'blues, and if you're white, they name it rock'n'roll. So, I don't give a... You know.

  Ike Turner

  Rocks, Names, White

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• If you're a black man, they really call you out and have you deal with them.

  Tupac Shakur

  Men, Deals, Ifs

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• It's no longer a fad to be down for the young Black male. Everybody wants to go past. Like the gangster stuff, it just got exploited.

  Tupac Shakur

  Past, Males, Want

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• Tupac the son of the Black Panther, and Tupac the rider. Those are the two people inside of me. I was raised off those ideals.

  Tupac Shakur

  Son, Two, People

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• When the charge first came up, I hated black women. Then, going to trial, I started seeing the black women that was helping me. It's mostly black female guards. They treat me with human respect.

  Tupac Shakur

  Firsts, Female, Trials

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• When I was a kid, I was following black soul music.

  Robert Plant

  Kids, Soul, Following

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• You don't pick black actors or black directors because they are black. You pick them because they are good. If you lend somebody 50 million dollars you want you're money back. You don't care if they are oppressed. You just want you're money back.

  Denzel Washington

  Directors, Dollars, Actors

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• All you need to understand is that the officer carries with him the power of the American state and the weight of an American legacy, and they necessitate that of the bodies destroyed every year, some wild and disproportionate number of them will be black.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Numbers, Years, Legacy

  "Ta-Nehisi Coates: 'In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body'" by Ta-Nehisi Coates, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2015.

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• Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free. Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains-whole generations followed by more generations who knew nothing but chains.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Country, Years, People

  Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015). “Between the World and Me”, p.48, Spiegel & Grau

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• I was a black boy at the height of the crack era, which meant that my instructors pitched education as the border between those who would prosper in America, and those who would be fed to the great hydra of prison, teenage pregnancy and murder.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Teenage, Pregnancy, Boys

  "School as Wonder, or Way Out" by Ta-Nehisi Coates, www.nytimes.com. July 10, 2012.

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• To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  White, People, Enabling

  "In Defense of a Loaded Word" by Ta-Nehisi Coates, www.nytimes.com. November 23, 2013.

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• Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Government, People, Bait

  "Color-Blind Policy, Color-Conscious Morality" by Ta-Nehisi Coates, www.theatlantic.com. May 13, 2015.

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