Black Beauty Quotes

• There is no shame in black beauty.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Black, Shame

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• There's one more thing I want to say. It's a touchy subject. Black beauty. Black sensuality. We live in a culture where the beauty of black people isn't always as celebrated as other types. I'd like to help change that if I can!

  Jody Watley

  Beauty, People, Black

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• There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.

  Anna Sewell

  Kindness, Animal, Men

  Anna Sewell (2011). “Black Beauty: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.51, Penguin

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• Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

  Zora Neale Hurston (1969). “Dust tracks on a road”

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• Black beauty - he's a dark horse.

  Tim Vine

  Beauty, Horse, Dark

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• The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

  William Carlos Williams

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

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• Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, get it out with Optrex.

  Spike Milligan

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

  Spike Milligan (1993). “Hidden Words: Collected Poems”

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• If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

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• Nothing about human beings ever had the power to move me as a child. Black Beauty now ... !

  Nancy Mitford

  Children, Moving, Black

  Nancy Mitford (2010). “Love in a Cold Climate”, p.21, Vintage

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• We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.

  Anna Sewell

  Animal, Dumb, Pet

  Anna Sewell (2015). “Black Beauty”, p.141, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• What right had they to make me suffer like that?

  Anna Sewell

  Suffering

  Anna Sewell (2015). “Black Beauty”, p.30, Xist Publishing

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• My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my friends under the apple trees.

  Anna Sewell

  Home, Apples, Tree

  Anna Sewell (2012). “Black Beauty”, p.172, Courier Corporation

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• The way we value black beauty has changed. I'm single now, but back in the slave days, I would have never been single. I'm 6 feet tall and I'm strong. Look at me, I'm a Mandingo.

  Leslie Jones

  Strong, Feet, Black

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• I liked speed. I was on black beauties all the time. Nothing bad happened to me. I didn't become a drug addict because I always had to make a movie. We weren't stoned when we made them; I was stoned when I made movies up. I did them all.

  John Waters

  Drug, Black, Speed

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• The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.The Sunday World was a dry-stall interlude in my wanderings.

  A. J. Liebling

  Christmas, Fall, Mean

  A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.14, Macmillan

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