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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
I didn't know it would be black," she murmured with a little smile. Horror flooded his face. "Oh, Christ!
I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days.
It may be for 20 or 30 years no one has yet been able to decide the length of the life of the black bass.
After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.
When something so unjust as the black list happened, [Dalton Trumbo] would come to life in a certain way.
Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.
Let me state here and now that the black woman in America can justly be described as a 'slave of a slave.
I don't just want to be the best black player or the best Asian player. I want to be the best golfer ever.
If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.
I'm a black man that is proud to be black, and I want to help the black community, but I love all mankind.
It's not that George Bush doesn't care about black people, god made hurricanes, not people who can't swim.
I don't like conservatives. They always talk about the good old days. I'm black, we have no good old days.
When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor.
February is the uncertain month, neither black nor white but all shades between by turns. Nothing is sure.
I feel like Black Jesus got his hands on me and guides me through life to put me where I'm supposed to be.
My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.
1-2 out of every 100 students reach Black Belt and of those only 1 out of every 1,000 achieves his 2nd Dan
I am honored to have John Lloyd called the Black Wagner. It is a privilege to have been compared with him.
The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses.
I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.
'Misty of Chincoteague', 'The Black Stallion', the 'Saddle Club' books, I read 'em all. I was horse-crazy.
I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.
You know I'm not hung up on this liberating myself from the "black" man - I'm not going to try that thing.
If a liberal were to attack Justice Clarence Thomas on the grounds that he's black, we would all go crazy.
I don't care if you're black, white, short, tall, skinny, rich or poor. If you respect me I'll respect you
Greatness can be captured in one word: lifestyle. Life is God's gift to you, style is what you make of it.
I want to be an inspiration, but I would like there to be a day when it is not 'Simone the black swimmer.'
I don't think people really understand how hard it is to be black. Especially when you coming from nothing.
If you have ever been robbed by a black teen-aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be.
I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.'
Women that look like me [the black ones] need to see more of themselves in social media, in film, in music.
My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves.
Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers.
Who would have thought when they came to the fight? That they'd witness the launching of a human satellite.
To see a young black woman being loved for just who she is - her hair, her skin, her clothes - is powerful.
In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.
I don't like the term 'black people', I find it demeaning to those of us that actually qualify as 'people'.
We see his smile of love even when others see nothing but the black hand of death smiting our best beloved.
I think that the over-incarceration of black and brown folk is one of the great crimes of American society.
All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.
Not just as a black woman, but as a woman, since the beginning of time, beauty has been our responsibility.
I find any great man, black or white, I'm going to study him, learn him so he can't be great to me no more.
They were black like a lizard's and very large and, like the eyes of a lizard, could sometimes look sleepy.
It's an amazing honor to be the fourth Black hockey player to go into the Hall of Fame. It's a huge thrill.
I'm sorry that I did not become the world's first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
I wear a lot of black, but not in the goth way, I just really love black. I'll never be in pink or purples.
If the Black woman is a queen, and I believe that she is, why would I settle for something less than royal?
We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam.
There's no Chanel collection without black. (It) will never exist. Who can live without some black clothes.