All Black Quotes - Page 2

• Preaching styles and people being slain in the spirit and things like that. Now it doesn't happen in all black churches, and it happens sometimes in white churches, right? But on average they're quite a bit different.

  Michael Emerson

  Average, White, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Race means family and all black people whether they like it or not, are family.

  Kola Boof

  Mean, Race, People

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• I heard someone say that all black people got rhythm. Bullshit.

  Ray Charles

  Music, People, Bullshit

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• The total liberation and unification of Africa under an All-African Socialist Government must be the primary objective of all Black revolutionaries throughout the world. It is an objective which when achieved, will bring about the fulfillment of the aspirations of Africans and people of African descent everywhere. It will at the same time advance the triumph of the international socialist revolution.

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Socialist Government, People, Black

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• When I was younger, living in an all-black neighborhood the other kids thought I was better than them because of my light skin and straight hair. Then we moved to an all-white neighborhood and that was a culture shock ... I'd been used to being around all black kids.

  Halle Berry

  Kids, White, Light

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• I'm not interested in making all-black films - I come from a very diverse culture, I want to work with every type of person. I work a lot with women executives because they seem to be a lot more open minded about that and a lot more progressive in that way.

  Idris Elba

  Black, Culture, Want

  "The god in Idris Elba". Interview with Afua Hirsch, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2011.

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• Part-black generally means all-black in Americans' minds. Just as part-Asian or part-Hispanic or part-anything-else usually puts individuals in those minority-groups' camps.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Mean, Mind, Black

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• I wasn't cocky, just confident; I went to an all black school, a white kid.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Cocky, School, Kids

  "Shia LaBeouf Sheds His Child Image for The Greatest Game Ever Played". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. September 30, 2005.

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• There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.

  Queen Latifah

  Perfect, People, Black

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

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• Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.

  Kanye West

  Men, Jeans, White

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• I played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, firemen's fairs, policemen's balls, in front of supermarkets, bar mitzvahs, weddings, drive-in theaters. I'd seen it all before I ever walked into a recording studio.

  Bruce Springsteen

  White, Black, Bars

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• The media love to cover black people on the front page. After all, when you live in a society that will lock up about 30 percent of all black men at some time in their lives and send more of them to prison than to college, chances are a fair number of those black faces will end up in the newspaper.

  Michael Moore

  College, Men, Media

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• Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind social changes in the United States. And why has there never been an all-black daytime network soap? It would probably blow the white soaps off the map.

  Camille Paglia

  Blow, White, African American

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• I was born in Detroit, in an all black neighborhood.

  Steven Seagal

  Black, Detroit, Born

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• What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.

  Bell Hooks

  People, Goal, Black

  bell hooks (2014). “Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism”, p.5, Routledge

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• Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue.

  Marcel Proust

  Blue, Sky, Black

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.129, Wordsworth Editions

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• A bear! A bear! All black and brown and covered in hair!

  George R. R. Martin

  Hair, Black, Bears

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Storm of Swords: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Three”, p.103, Bantam

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• Do you remember when we stood together on Blackfriars Bridge?” he asked softly, and his eyes were like that night had been, all black and silver. “Of course I remember.” “It was the moment I first knew I loved you,” Jem said. “I will make you a promise. Every year, Tessa, on one day, I will meet you on that bridge. I will come from the Silent City and I will meet you, and we will be together, if only for an hour. But you must tell no one.

  Cassandra Clare

  Princess, Eye, Night

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.499, Simon and Schuster

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• I played on an all-black high school team and we didn't want people saying that we were clowns.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Team, School

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• Yes?' Joe Solomon sounded like someone with far better things to do. 'Is there any homework?' she asked, and the class turned instantly from shocked to irritated. (Never ask that question in a room full of girls who are all black belts in karate) 'Yes,' Solomon said, holding the door in the universal signal for get out. 'Notice things.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Doors, Class

  Ally Carter (2007). “I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You”, Hyperion

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• What are letters?” “Kinda like mediaglyphics except they’re all black, and they’re tiny, they don’t move, they’re old and boring and really hard to read. But you can use ’em to make short words for long words.

  Neal Stephenson

  Moving, Long, Black

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “The Diamond Age”, p.46, Spectra

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• I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Writing, Land, People

  Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. March 7, 2007.

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• I instinctively dress a bit tougher because I've spent a lot of time in the U.S. and I realised there was a certain image projected of me here. I've always been an absolute rebel. When I was in my teen years I had piercings and wore all black.

  Ellie Goulding

  Years, Black, Rebel

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.

  Bell Hooks

  Thinking, Numbers, People

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• Any style that Nike makes in all black, shoe, sweatshirt, onesie, doesn't matter, I pretty much need to have.

  Alexander Wang

  Nike, Fashion, Shoes

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