All Black Quotes

• Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy - but mysterious. [...] But above all black says this: 'I don't bother you - don't bother me'

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Fashion, Lazy, Black

  "Fashion's Poet of Black : YAMAMOTO" by Suzy Menkes, www.nytimes.com. September 5, 2000.

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  Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

  "50 stunning Olympic moments No35: Wilma Rudolph's triple gold in 1960" by Rob Bagchi, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2012.

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• This is brain surgery. Ski masks on my bullets, let 'em commit brain burglary. Emergency, it's an emergency. Someone in all black left the whole scene burgundy.

  Lil Wayne

  Black, Brain, Ems

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• In the beginning it was all black and white.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Black And White, Black White, White

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• 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.

  Marcus Garvey

  People, Black, Desire

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• It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Beautiful, Hair

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• I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Life, Eye, Soul

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.153, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Black And White, People, Gutters

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• I love Obama because he is proof all black people don't look alike. Nobody every told me, 'Good morning, Mr. President.' We don't all look alike.

  Paul Mooney

  Morning, People, Black

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• ... not all black women have silently acquiesced in sexism and misogyny within the African-American community. Indeed, many writers, activists, and other women have voiced their opposition and paid the price: they have been ostracized and branded as either man- haters or pawns of white feminists, two of the more predictable modes of disciplining and discrediting black feminists.

  Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

  Men, Two, White

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• We're ready for a real black President - someone like Jay-Z. Obama's fine, just not all black. He's our gateway Negro.

  Christopher Titus

  Real, Black, President

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And yet today, half of all black children are aborted. Far more of the African-American community is being devastated by the policies of today than were being devastated by policies of slavery

  Trent Franks

  Children, Community, African American

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• I'm an avid hockey fan and I've been playing for about 17 years, and somebody recently told me that the first organized hockey teams in Canada were all black. Telling those stories would be cool.

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.

  Team, Hockey, Avid

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. January 17, 2012.

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• We're more Christian than the Pope. And, I mean, that's not our religion. We pray to the Gods of our conquerors... all black and brown people.

  Immortal Technique

  Christian, Mean, People

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I remember watching Mike [Michael Jordan]. I remember him having a royal blue blazer and all black t-shirt and he came out of a blue Corvette. That was dope to us. We were like, 'Yo, Michael killed today.' He didn't even talk to the media and walked straight into the arena. Everyday's like Mike.

  Iman Shumpert

  Dope, Blue, Media

  Source: wwd.com

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• I know now it's a hashtag and people have various feelings about it, but really if you look at all black art, even in hip-hop, it's all about that I exist and these are my feelings and this is what I feel about the world. It's always been an undercurrent.

  Cheo Hodari Coker

  Art, People, Hip Hop

  Source: deadline.com

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• If you think about black art, all black art, whether it's Invisible Man or whether it's James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Zora Hurston, or Richard Wright, they all deal with elements of identity and trying to humanize our experience and our struggle in the world where people have been indifferent to who we are and what we are. It's basically just saying that our lives have meaning.

  Cheo Hodari Coker

  Art, Struggle, Men

  Source: deadline.com

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• I think we're used to the black filmmaker coming in and making the all-black subject matter. Especially at Sundance, they're looking for that. It's funny because amongst my filmmaker friends talk about this.

  Steven Caple Jr.

  Thinking, Black, Matter

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. To impose on them a wretched life of huger and deprivation is to dehumanize them. But such has been the terrible fate of all black persons in our country under the system of apartheid.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Country, Fate

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• I'm against an all-white anything or an all-black anything.

  Charles Evers

  White, Black

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• Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process--it is, after all, black magic.

  Edward Albee

  Creative, Black, Magic

  Edward Albee (2009). “Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee”, p.165, Da Capo Press

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• I think things like food, the food of the south is sort of the common tie that binds us all, Black and White, the sense memories. It's a very particular part of the country.

  Sela Ward

  Country, Memories, Black And White

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• I carry a knife now because I read in a white magazine that all black people carry knives. So I rushed out and bought me one.

  Redd Foxx

  Knives, White, People

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• I wanted to make sure the focus [in The Land] was on human beings themselves and their decisions, but still connected to the urban environment that people associate as being black. I think I was able to make a film without commenting on "black this or black that" and you still feel the presence of it. There's no one character who's saying "we're all black and we're all in this struggle." It's that you just feel it. Some of that is because we get the sense from a lot of independent films that black people struggle all the time.

  Steven Caple Jr.

  Struggle, Character, Independent

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I worked at an all-black swimming pool in the east side of Wilmington, I was involved in what the Negroes, I mean, blacks were thinking, what they were feeling.

  Joe Biden

  Mean, Swimming, Thinking

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2015.

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