All Black Quotes - Page 3

• All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

  Muhammad Ali

  Names, White, Black

  "New Again: Muhammad Ali". Interview with Daniela Morera, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 26, 2016.

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• I don't like the fact that most black people or black comedians have to present themselves in a flamboyant way. It's good if you can do that, but I don't like to think that's the way all black comedians are. I'm not that type.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Thinking, People, Black

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• Just wearing all black comes from Johnny Cash. I'm on the road so much that if I wear all black my clothes never get dirty. You can't tell if I've worn the same shirt twice.

  G-Eazy

  Dirty, Clothes, Black

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• I mean my goal is to get Michael Richards to do stand up at the Laugh Factory to an all black audience.

  Daniel Tosh

  Mean, Goal, Laughing

  "Byt Interview: Daniel Tosh". brightestyoungthings.com. November 4, 2010.

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• As a teenager I just wanted to fit in, just to be one of the boys. It was tough. I went to an all black school. I went so far as to have them print my negative in the yearbook. I think it was the black teeth that gave me away.

  Ronnie Shakes

  Teenager, School, Yearbook

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• I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Jumping, Smell, Black

  "Fabulous Friends". Interview with Chloë Sevigny, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 22, 2014.

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• I understand the all black or all white look (to be perfectly blunt, it's easy and you don't have to think about it very much) but would any of us really want to be one of those people?

  Tim Gunn

  Thinking, White, People

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• Mother loathed the all-black B movies Hollywood made for the "colored" audience, where the stereotypes were broader and more offensive to her, and where the musical interludes did no justice to real talent, she said, but trivialized it.

  Gayle Pemberton

  Mother, Real, Justice

  Gayle Pemberton (1998). “The Hottest Water in Chicago: Notes of a Native Daughter”, p.41, Wesleyan University Press

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• Traditionally, I have no right to talk about race. I'm white; I didn't grow up in an all-black neighborhood. But the license I see for myself is I'm a member of the world.

  Sarah Silverman

  Growing Up, Race, White

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

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• Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful, but a beautiful white skin is rare.

  Mark Twain

  Beautiful, Race, White

  Mark Twain (1809). “The Writings of Mark Twain: Following the equator; a journey around the world”, p.63

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• I love Tumi because of the lifetime guarantee. And their luggage is just so solid. Looks good. Versatile. My carry-on bag is Tumi. My hanging bag is Tumi. My big suitcase is Tumi. All black. Love it.

  Mark Teixeira

  Black, Bags, Looks

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• Rock and roll came in and changed my life and changed the whole music scene forever, and then I grew to love R&B and Motown and all black music, gospel music. But I never dismiss any form of music. I listen to everything.

  Elton John

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Forever

  "Interview: Elton John Talks Gnomeo And Juliet And His Long Career". Interview with Cole Haddon, www.mtv.com. February 09, 2011.

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• Let all Black Poets die as trumpets,
  And be buried in the dust of marching feet.

  Etheridge Knight

  Death, Dust, Feet

  Etheridge Knight (1986). “The Essential Etheridge Knight”, p.55, University of Pittsburgh Press

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• When the American people saw the LA riots and crowds of Blacks cheering O.J. Simpson (who was acquitted by the almost all Black jury), they received a peek into their future.

  David Duke

  Cheer, Ku Klux Klan, People

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• I would like to remind the black ministry and indeed all black people that God is not in the habit of coming down from heaven to solve people's problems on earth.

  Steven Biko

  People, Heaven, Black

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• If you have an all-white neighborhood you don't call it a segregated neighborhood. But you call an all-black neighborhood a segregated neighborhood. And why? Because the segregated neighborhood is the one that's controlled by the ou - from the outside by others, but a separate neighborhood is a neighborhood that is independent, it's equal, it can do - it can stand on its own two feet, such as the neighborhood. It's an independent, free neighborhood, free community.

  Malcolm X

  Independent, Two, White

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• You know, you walk through this hotel, you're not going to see all white people; you're not going to see all black people; you're going to see what the world looks like. I promised myself that if I ever got an opportunity where I would be able to make a difference and have a say, that I would want to deliver [that] message [of inclusivity].

  George Lopez

  Opportunity, White, Differences

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I don't claim to say, "All black women are like me," because they're not.

  Morgan Parker

  Black, Claims, Like Me

  "There’s Poetry About Beyoncé Now - And It’s Amazing". Interview with Becca Andrews, www.motherjones.com. February 15, 2017.

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• Can't be all men, can't be all white, can't be all black, can't be all straight. [It has] got to be a wide range of people. Can't be all people of one faith group. We need diversity so we can have the views of all Americans reflected in congressional outcomes.

  Keith Ellison

  Men, Views, White

  Source: harvardpolitics.com

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• It would be the easiest thing in the world for the white man to destroy all Black Muslims.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Black

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• But nothing is all black in nature.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Nature, Black

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• All black people who are even minimally conscious, black people who have ever experienced Europe's technological power crusading in the vanguard of a civilizing mission, have profound feelings of inferiority and bitterly regret the fact that the Industrial Revolution did not agreeably commence in Dahomey or Dakar. Nothing is achieved by concealing this fact.

  Lewis Nkosi

  Regret, Europe, People

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• I've never been an all-black girl. I like pinks and blues and greens. If you come over to my closet, you'll be able to find a rainbow of things to wear.

  Carly Rae Jepsen

  Girl, Rainbow, Black

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• We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.

  Jack White

  School, White, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When the Lord's white sheep become dirty gray, all black sheep feel more comfortable.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Dirty, Sheep

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