Black Quotes - Page 39

• Where else but in America can a poor black man like Michael Jackson grow up to be a rich white woman?

  Red Buttons

  Growing Up, Men, White

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• If you see a black woman with an overweight white man, you know she got effed up credit!

  Chris Rock

  Men, White Man, Credit

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• I was raised to believe that you had to do things better than white people in order to succeed. The old black shows were better than the white shows. "The Jeffersons" (1975) was a lot better. "Good Times" (1974) was way funnier. "Sanford and Son" (1972). Now, though, everyone thinks we're equal, so we submit the same shit that everyone else submits. And then we get mad when they won't air it. You got to go back to the old attitude of it has to be twice as good.

  Chris Rock

  Attitude, Believe, Son

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My cat, Ethel, is an indoor cat but somehow she's sneakin' out at night. 'Cause the other morning I found a stamp on her paw... I wouldn't have noticed myself, but I just bought this new black light and she passed right under it and I said, 'Hey, what's that on you paw?

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Morning, Cat, Night

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• At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.

  Bette Davis

  Doors, Clothes, Wreaths

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• People say I'm into black women. Robert De Niro is into black women. I'm just into women who are real, and they happen to be black.

  Bill Maher

  Real, People, De Niro

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• White people have always shown their superiority over blacks with their feet, moving out of black neighborhoods with the fear that their kids will turn into one of them. And now, through the magic of MTV, damned if it didn't turn out that way!

  Bill Maher

  Moving, Kids, White

  "Real Time with Bill Maher". imdb.com. 2003.

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• I'm so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.

  Bernie Mac

  Coal, Fingerprints

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• Black audiences are hard. They always think they're better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.

  Bernie Mac

  Thinking, Littles, Audience

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• I told my wife she looks sexy with black fingernails. Now she thinks I slammed the car door on her hand on purpose.

  Emo Philips

  Sexy, Thinking, Doors

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• Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature... The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.

  Brian Eno

  Black And White, Signatures, Events

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• I mean, it makes me sick when I see a white man sitting there smiling at me being entertaining, man. When I know what he's gonna do after he gets through. You know, when you see that thing on their face - like: "Entertain me." You know what I mean? Even the black guy that's trying to be white - even he can have that crap on his face.

  Miles Davis

  Mean, Men, White Man

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• I would never try and play like Harry James, because I don't like his tone - for me. It's just white. You know what I mean? He has what we black trumpet players call a white sound. But it's for white music ... I can tell a white trumpet player, just listening to a record. There'll be something he'll do that'll let me know that he's white.

  Miles Davis

  Funny, Mean, Player

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• You can have a film and have 200 white people working on it, and nobody finds anything wrong with that. But if you insist on having a black crew, all of a sudden there's something wrong.

  Richard Pryor

  White, People, Film

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I must admit to a personal lack of sympathy with women who have themselves photographed in black stockings, garter belts and boots, with bare breasts, bananas, and coy, come-hither glances.... A woman using her own face and body has a right to do what she will with them, but it is a subtle abyss that separates men's use of women for sexual titillation from women's use of women to expose that insult.

  Lucy R. Lippard

  Men, Use, Boots

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• You might be a redneck if your favorite Christmas present was a painting on black velvet.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Velvet, Might

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• When I cannot get that moment of truth where you feel yourself opening up like a flower, I absolutely loathe the bloody camera. I can just feel this black hole eyeing me, sucking me in, and I feel like smashing it to smithereens.

  Nastassja Kinski

  Flower, Opening Up, Cameras

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• This hair has a reputation of being stereotypically punk rock, and I'm the girliest person you'll ever find so it took a while for me to figure out how to convey my style. I never wear black very often anymore, all the colors I wear are extremely soft and lovely.

  Ariana Grande

  Hair, Rocks, Color

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• When you get called the n-word, as a black person you can do anything. It's like getting a gold star in Super Mario Brothers and junk. I hear the music when I hear the n-word. I get right into it; I get really into it. You can do anything. You could be in a fancy restaurant - just start throwing poop at the walls. People be like, 'What are you doing?' 'Someone called him the n-word.

  Donald Glover

  Brother, Stars, Wall

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• Looking at me from the outside, it is not very obvious, I know half my family is black and I feel close to their culture and their color.

  Ryan Giggs

  Color, Culture, Half

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• For black folks, the camera provided a means to document a reality that could, if necessary, be packed, stored, moved from place to place... [Photography] offered a way to contain memories, to overcome loss, to keep history.

  Bell Hooks

  Photography, Memories, Mean

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• Black folks never bungie jump. That's too much like lynching for us. I'm gonna let you tie a rope around me and push me off a bridge? You must be out your damn mind.

  D. L. Hughley

  Lynching, Bridges, Ties

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• They didn't have to describe Jesus to me for me to know he's black. Jesus' first miracle was turning water into wine at a wedding. Now if that ain't black folk, I don't know what is.

  D. L. Hughley

  Jesus, Wine, Water

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• I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in Black women's lives.

  Solange Knowles

  Thinking, Hair, Other Cultures

  "Exclusive: Solange Knowles Shares Her Natural Hair Secrets" by Corynne Corbett, www.essence.com. May 31, 2012.

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• If you are a black woman, you get two history months in a row.

  Artie Lange

  Two, Months, Ifs

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