Black Quotes - Page 37

• The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

  Andre Gide

  Stupid, Intelligent, Men

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• My favorite sound is definitely mules. If it was an instrument, it's really pingthe touch of the black keys of the piano.

  Christian Louboutin

  Keys, Piano, Sound

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• I felt like I was being attacked, personally attacked - our community was attacked. Now, I gotta get in their face. I'm proud to be a woman. I'm proud to be a black woman. And I'm proud to be gay.

  Wanda Sykes

  Gay, Community, Proud

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 'You spin in the sky, the world spins under you, and you step from land to land, while we . . .' She turned her head right, left, and her black hair curled and uncurled on the shoulder of her coat. 'We have our dull, circled lives, bound in gravity, worshiping you!'

  Samuel R. Delany

  Hair, Land, Sky

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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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• 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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• Think black love, think universal love. Just think love.

  Lauryn Hill

  Thinking, Universal Love, Black Love

  "New Again: Lauryn Hill". Interview with Genevieve Glass and Maxwell, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 2, 2013.

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• I think I've been writing black poems all along, wearing my white mask. I'm always the victim ... but no longer!

  Anne Sexton

  Writing, Thinking, White

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• Football is the only sport where you put people together, it doesn't matter if you are rich, or poor, or black, or white. It is one nation. This is the beauty of football.

  Pele

  Sports, Football, White

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• The Stooges used to be ubiquitous, back in the '60s and '70s. They were on TV all the time, but they're not on so much anymore. Kids aren't getting the chance to watch them, not to mention the fact that kids don't really necessarily relate to black-and-white stuff.

  Chris Diamantopoulos

  Kids, Black And White, Watches

  Source: collider.com

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• All my playmates were black. I lived in a little community called Archery (ph) in a rural area. And I didn't have any white neighbors at all. So all my kids with whom I fought and wrestled and went fishing and worked in the field and so forth were African-Americans. And that was my life. So when I got to be school age, we had to separate during the daytime, but I always felt like I was in an alien environment when I was in Plains, Georgia with white kids. I was eager to get back where I belonged with my black playmates.

  Jimmy Carter

  School, Kids, Archery

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. December 10, 2004.

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• I don't think it's a bad thing to play a character that's not necessarily a super-woman. Even if the character is a little bit stereotypical, as long as the whole story is good and positive, or makes some sort of important statement, I think it's okay. But, on the whole, you can't just do that, especially as a black woman. It's more of a responsibility. You've gotta let the world see black women being successful, strong, smart, with power and who are self-possessed.

  Megalyn Echikunwoke

  Strong, Smart, Character

  "Megalyn Echikunwoke Talks Showtime’s HOUSE OF LIES, DAMSELS IN DISTRESS, and NBC Pilot BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 29, 2012.

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• There aren't a lot of roles in period movies for black people. It sucks because I love that era. But, I love musicals. I love the show Glee, and I wouldn't mind being on that either.

  Megalyn Echikunwoke

  People, Mind, Roles

  "Megalyn Echikunwoke Talks Showtime’s HOUSE OF LIES, DAMSELS IN DISTRESS, and NBC Pilot BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 29, 2012.

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• If you want to say that the sky is black, and if I'm there, even if I fall back down again, I will be weightless for a period of time - maybe that's the definition of space.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Fall, Sky, Space

  "Expert testimony on the space age". Interview with Alan Boyle, www.nbcnews.com. July 19, 2004.

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• People inside the theaters usually, not 100 percent but most of them, enjoy the movie. Usually they come with a small negative view. In a way, they're prepared to get bored because it's silent and because it's black and white. So they are much more pleased to be entertained in a way. They're very happy when they go out. This was my job. For the other ones, I can do nothing except screen the movie and hope that they will say to their friends that it's not so [bad].

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Jobs, Black And White, Views

  "Director Michel Hazanavicius THE ARTIST Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 26, 2011.

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