Black Quotes - Page 40

• A poor white woman from the South is different than a poor black woman from the South, and has a completely different experience.

  Bryan Fuller

  White, Different Experiences, Poor

  Source: collider.com

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• Yet again, the family of a young black man is grieving a life cut short. Yet again, the streets of an American city are marred by violence. What we have seen in Baltimore should, indeed I think does, tear at our soul.

  Hillary Clinton

  Cutting, Thinking, Grieving

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Creating a world that reflects the inner voyage of our characters was really important. Also, because this isn't a black and white show, and this isn't about bad guys and good guys, but it's about good men being capable of bad things and vice versa, I wanted to be in a city that had contradiction.

  Veena Sud

  Character, Black And White, Men

  Source: collider.com

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• The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.

  Betty Friedan

  Black And White, Men, Boss

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The problem is that affirmative action could never really get at the issue of corporate power in the workplace, and so you ended up with the downsizing; you ended up with de-industrializing. You ended up with the marginalizing of working people and working poor people even while affirmative action was taking place, and a new black middle class was expanding.

  Cornel West

  Class, Issues, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think we must never, ever demonize one another. That's true not just black people to black people; that's human being to human being.

  Cornel West

  Thinking, People, Humans

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There ought to be a robust, uninhibited conversation in black America with different black ideological perspectives.

  Cornel West

  America, Perspective, Different

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If the churches don't move, much of the community won't move. We've got a situation in which a black church is still a major institution in the black community where 55 percent of the black folk attend and over 75 pass through its doors.

  Cornel West

  Moving, Doors, Community

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I had talked to my agent a lot over the years about not being interested in stereotypical "black films" [because] I didn't like the way they were representing black people over and over and over again in the same way.

  Zoe Kravitz

  Years, People, Agents

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• A lot of great art comes from the Afro-American male experience. Black men are geniuses, and many times their desperation, their position as being pariahs, leads them to great originality.

  Ishmael Reed

  Art, Men, Males

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• The humor of jazz is rich and many-sided. Some of it is obvious enough to make a dog laugh. Some is subtle, wry-mouthed, or back-handed. It is by turns bitter, agonized, and grotesque. Even in the hands of white composers it involuntarily reflects the half-forgotten suffering of the negro. Jazz has both white and black elements, and each in some respects has influenced the other. It's recent phase seems to throw the light of the white race's sophistication upon the anguish of the black.

  Bix Beiderbecke

  Dog, Light, Race

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• In Los Angeles on Black Friday, a woman pepper sprayed Wal-Mart shoppers who tried to cut in line. The police acted fast by immediately hiring her to get rid of peaceful protesters outside banking institutions all across the United States.

  Craig Ferguson

  Friday, Cutting, Police

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• I was born to a black childhood of confusion and poverty. The memory of that beginning influences my work today, It is impossible now to photograph a hungry child without remembering the hunger of my old childhood.

  Gordon Parks

  Children, Memories, Confusion

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• I know when the anthrax thing hit - white people, y'all was very nervous. Y'all would come up to me at work and warn me, like 'Oh my God, Aries, be careful. Don't open your mail.' Let me tell you something - black folks was never worried about anthrax because, half the time, we don't open our mail no way. We might think that's a bill. We might hold it to the light and go, 'That's a red slip.' If you want to get us with anthrax, put that in a Jay-Z CD. That's how you get us.

  Aries Spears

  Thinking, Cds, White

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• With a black president, I can relax... I can dance in public... I can buy a whole watermelon now.

  Wanda Sykes

  Relax, President, Whole

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• There's no excuse for domestic violence. It sounds like a challenge. I mean, does everything have to be so black-and-white in this kindergarten country of ours? What if you come home from a long day at work and your wife has drowned two of your kids - she's about to dunk the third one. Can you run over and pop her then? Unfortunately no, there's no excuse. You're going to have to let her drown that third one.

  Daniel Tosh

  Running, Country, Home

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• You never see anyone wearing a black turtleneck and leather jacket doing something nice.

  Daniel Tosh

  Nice, Leather Jackets, Turtlenecks

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• It's fair to say that black folks operate under a cloud of invisibility - this too is part of the work, is indeed central to [my photographs]... This invisibility - this erasure out of the complex history of our life and time - is the greatest source of my longing.

  Carrie Mae Weems

  Clouds, Invisibility, Longing

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• I don't like the fact that most black people or black comedians have to present themselves in a flamboyant way. It's good if you can do that, but I don't like to think that's the way all black comedians are. I'm not that type.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Thinking, People, Comedian

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• Black people drink lots of beer. However, you won't see us skiing down a mountain for one, or see us diving for Frisbees on concrete for one.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Beer, People, Alcohol

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• Expensive, well-executed, and familiar ads convince the investors, as nothing in the black and white tables of assets and debits can, that the company is important and prosperous.

  Michael Schudson

  Black And White, Important, Tables

  Michael Schudson (2013). “Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society”, p.14, Routledge

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• A black President? Now come on y'all, we got Clinton, that's close. He got negro tendencies.

  Chris Tucker

  President, Clinton, Tendencies

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• The way we value black beauty has changed. I'm single now, but back in the slave days, I would have never been single. I'm 6 feet tall and I'm strong. Look at me, I'm a Mandingo.

  Leslie Jones

  Strong, Feet, Looks

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• All was black, gloomy and awful. There was no light at the end of the tunnel - or if there was, it was an oncoming train.

  Terry Pratchett

  Tunnels, Light, Awful

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• Everybody's a racist. It's the one human trait that makes us all exactly the same. Deep down, we only like people who are exactly like us. And it doesn't matter. White. Black. Red. Yellow. Purple, uh oh, the purple people, are the worst. Man. All prejudiced and birth marky. But, we've got to learn to get past our differences. I learned that at the museum of tolerance. After my dad beat the crap out of a guy over a parking spot.

  Christopher Titus

  Dad, Past, Men

  "Titus / Too Damn Good". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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