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We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.
In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes you white.
Nothing is a greater stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black and detestable one, ingratitude.
I was just passing buy some racks of socks and remembered I needed some. So I picked 'em up. 1 black, 2 grey and 3 white pairs.
To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another.
If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz.
I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.
There's been a lot of talk about black men and the presence and absence of black men in positions of power in American culture.
President Clinton was often known as the first black president. I wouldn't be upset if I could earn the right to be the second.
I write to tell the truth about the black condition as I see it. Therefore, I write to offer a black woman's view of the world.
It's nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager.
and the rain went rollin down the windowpanes, and the shadows wiggled n' squiggled on her check and forehead like black veins.
Black ink was always my favorite. I loved it. And then one day I realized that the only thing I ever wanted to do was to paint.
My idea is to integrate black stars into mainstream stars. It hasn't been explored properly. That's what Im doing in Hollywood.
Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.
You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.
I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.
There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.
For those of us in the financial world, Black Friday has a strong negative connotation, referring to a stock market catastrophe.
I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!
I have reached a state in life where I can buy a whole house full of chairs and can bump into them until they are black and blue
I'm trying to think overall. Some of our stories [Black Mirror], I think you're right in that they don't tend to have a message.
Stars, everywhere. So many stars that I could not for the life me understand how the sky could contain them all yet be so black.
If there's a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to not cross it.
I know that statistically, it has been proven that there is a tremendous amount of black on black crime within the inner cities.
The black church often has reinforced certain self images that are damaging to black peoples' beauty, black peoples' confidence.
Eve: Anyway, thanks for riding to the rescue. You need a white hat. Good guys wear white, right? Roarke: I look better in black.
There's a hole in the world Like a great black pit And the vermin of the world Inhabit it ... And it goes by the name of London.
If I were a black liberal, I would be hailed, I guess. But I'm not. I mean, I think for myself. I want to make my own decisions.
That's because we did not set out to make black music. We set out to make quality music that everyone could enjoy and listen to.
What was happening was the war on drugs. That was the primary culprit I could see that was getting in the way of black progress.
She comes by night, in fearsome flight, in garments black as pitch, the queen of doom upon her broom, the wild and wicked witch.
I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.
Throughout history there have been black people who have played mammies, all sorts of offensive images, who didn't mind doing it.
[James] Baldwin "was one of greatest intellectuals of his time. He was an important voice, period, not an important black voice."
Being a black woman, I've often felt I've been judged by my sex and my race, and I have always known that it shouldn't hamper me.
Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.
This impeccably researched study of the classic black insult game may be the funniest work of serious scholarship ever published.
A poor white woman from the South is different than a poor black woman from the South, and has a completely different experience.
Black men, Indian men, and gay men have all have something in common: They do not provide an economic security blanket for women.
The biggest problem I had with starring in Scrubs were the black doctors. I just had to keep telling myself this show was satire.
I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
...and when I lift my head to scream out my fury, a million stars turn black and die. No one can see them, but they are my tears.
We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.
They call me racist too just because I disagree with a President who happens to be black. You are not racists - you are patriots.
We've become a culture where earning money doesn't entitle you to it, but wanting it does. That is the essence of redistribution.
Here's an interesting thing about L.A. - it's overrun with black widow spiders. I could find you one on the street in 10 minutes.
Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach into myself and accept myself.
Films portraying successful black people getting married are great, but films that only show one aspect of our culture, bother me.