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You seem a decent fellow," Inigo said. "I hate to kill you." You seem a decent fellow," answered the man in black. "I hate to die.
I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me.
I don't know a single black girl who's carefree because it ain't easy being a girl of color, period. God, I wish we were carefree.
I collect cars and bikes. One of my most special rides is a black 1930s Cadillac V16, and then I've got a few West Coast choppers.
Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.
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!
The American crow is at an all-time low of 82 birds. Others hit by the West Nile, like the black-capped chickadee, have rebounded.
Must we to bed indeed? Well then, Let us arise and go like men, And face with an undaunted tread The long black passage up to bed.
Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the 'Negro's' reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images.
Everything about us black people is complicated, us being here, being a minority, being a woman, all those things are complicated.
[...] the only folks who kill black folks any more are black folks. [...] black folks kill more black folks than the KKK ever did.
We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves.
A giraffe has a black tongue twenty-seven inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe has nothing to say. He just goes on giraffing.
When you want a nation, that's called nationalism... Black nationalism. A revolutionary is a Black nationalist. He wants a nation.
The wonderful thing about the black church for me is that it forces you to come to terms with the centrality of love in the world.
There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
No matter what you do, you can act your heart out, but people will always say, 'Oh, Julie Adams - Creature from the Black Lagoon.'
...My point is, I went crazy. When I saw what a black, awful joke the world was. I went crazy as a coot! I admit it! Why can't you?
Gazing into the mirror, I saw myself as I was-a black silhouette in the room, a woman whose darkness had completely leaked through.
All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
Bill Clinton is a liar, a perverted kind of a guy anyway, and he is always stroking black folks rather than telling them the truth.
I don't mind doing the green-screen stuff at all, and in fact it's a lot like black-box theater, which I did plenty of in New York.
We put stereotypes on ourselves. Everybody does that. But I think it's just a little harder for black kids to just be who they are.
Black Velvet in that little boys smile, Black Velvet with that slow southern style. A new religion that'll bring you to your knees.
His blood is black and boiling hot, he gurgles ghastly groans. He'll cook you in his dinner pot, your skin, your flesh, your bones.
They don't make red noses to fit black people. I have a wide nose like a Volkswagen and I have never had a red nose that fitted me.
I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.
The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?
Look deep into the pupil stare into the black, you'll be able to see the soul what is it doingLaughing? Dancing? Crying? Screaming?
One puts on black robes to scare the hell out of white people, while the other puts on white robes to scare the hell out of blacks.
I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from India.
A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people.
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.
I don't trust white critics' judgment about most things that deal with black life, particularly when a black person is the creator.
The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them.
The history of black America was from slavery, oppression, civil rights, and you felt kind of isolated as an entity in our country.
Gertrude Stein's prose-song is a cold, black suet-pudding.... Cut it at any point, it is the same thing ... all fat, without nerve.
The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
I still listen to black metal all the time - that's obviously one of my favorite kinds of music - but I steer from it very strongly.
I wear black for those who never read or listen to the words that Jesus said, about the road to happiness, through love and charity.
Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.
Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, becausetime has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.
So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.
The Black Power Mixtape is a documentary, first of all. It brings us closer to the voices we heard at that particular point in time.
I see other black women imitate my style, which is no style at all, but just letting our hair be itself. They call it the Afro Look.
We've never advocated violence; violence is inflicted upon us. But we do believe in self-defense for ourselves and for black people.
Black money is so much a part of our white economy, a tumour in the centre of the brain - try to remove it and you kill the patient.
There's really no precedent for someone like me gaining clout in the space that I'm in - a black woman directing films in Hollywood.
I mean Black Flag happened. I was lucky. I don't think I could have put together something with one percent of that oomph on my own.