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The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.
The physician knows that his little black bag can carry him only so far and that the body's own healing system is the main resource.
Music is the very cement that has not just held the black community together but holds black selves together in a fundamental sense.
Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America — that and a sense of humor that just couldn't be enslaved.
Once a man has seen society's black underbelly, he can never turn his back on it. Never pretend, like you do, that it doesn't exist.
If (Black) is going for victory, he is practically forced to allow his opponent to get some kind of well-known positional advantage.
In many ways [those middle-aged black ladies] my touchstone, because they are what I meant when I talked about the audacity of hope.
The story of Black Lives Matter starts before Black Lives Matter. The story of Black Lives Matter, for me, starts with my childhood.
You got two black folk representing us through the Sixties. One of them was for violence, one was against it, and they both are dead.
I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.
I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.
In my wildest dreams, I never would have thought wed come to the point where were talking about the re-election of a black president.
Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and we just did it.
I don't get back as much as I'd like to, so I don't have a lot of close ties [Pittsburgh], but I'll bleed black and gold until I die.
Anything I have ever learned of any consequence, I have learned from Black people. I have never been bored by any Black person, ever.
Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes!
When I first started doing comedy, there was no such thing as a room that had black people and white people in it. That didn't exist.
And then comes unhappiness, and one does not become unhappy either. One says, 'A black cloud passing. I am the witness, the watcher.'
I ought to file charges of uncommon stupidity against you for letting her try this alone." ~ Newt, Black Magic Sanction, Kim Harrison
Working on a green screen set, yeah, it's almost like reading from a novel, taking those black words and creating a world around you.
PICKANINNY, n. The young of the "Procyanthropos", or "Americanus dominans". It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.
There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and why.
It's no longer a fad to be down for the young Black male. Everybody wants to go past. Like the gangster stuff, it just got exploited.
Being a young black man, observing and sensing the need for race equality and women's rights, I wrote about what was important to me.
Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
Rage filled me at her words - cold, black, unending rage. Whatever happened to me, Mab would not hurt my sister again. She would not.
I grew up black in segregated America, where it was hard to find an open door. It's harder now for young blacks to find a closed one.
Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?
Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.
If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something.
I come in with this rock 'n' roll-oriented music, and it's not black enough . . . I've always had to deal with this black-white thing.
None of us are good or evil, and that frustrates us because we want to see others as wearing a white hat or black hat. My hat is grey.
In the early days, we just wore black onstage. Very bold, my dear. Then we introduced white, for variety, and it simply grew and grew.
Bill Clinton did everything in opposition to Black Lives Matter and the things that animate the existence of the Democrat Party today.
When you hear my records today hear a vanilla sounding artist with no black inflection, although I was trying to imitate what I heard.
Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy
Being a black woman, there's so many different sides of us. We are funny, silly, romantic, professional, smart, and we have good jobs.
Our situation is more psychological than people will admit. Black kids kill Black kids for the same reason cops do. They see no value.
Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair.
I enjoy that the most powerful person in Hollywood is indeed a Black woman in Oprah Winfrey. I'm hoping to just transcend beyond that.
I'll never understand the art world. But I kind of feel like there's been some art world/black metal crossovers happening for a while.
In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
Somebody will be upset and say I got rich and deserted my female people; No offense, but the only black woman I ever loved is my mama.
A black widow loves her mate then kills him. A praying mantis loves her mate then eats him. Women love my dad, but he's too big to eat.
It doesn't require much for misfortune to strike in the King's Gambit - one incautious move, and Black can be on the edge of the abyss.
A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a white face will have a black mind.
When I say the n-word, black people are clear that I'm on their side. And it's not disingenuous - I am on black people's side, clearly.
Above all, avoid the Indiana Jones fedora. It's very yesterday, and if you wear a black one, you might be mistaken for an Orthodox Jew.
If there are older black people in the audience that I can see I will not say the n-word. I know they grew up with a different meaning.
We have a black President in the United States. I think the world has matured. It's no longer about colour, but the person in the skin.