Black Quotes - Page 13

• We can't talk about the black community. It's no longer a homogeneous community; it was never a homogeneous community.

  Angela Davis

  Community, Homogeneous, Black Community

  PBS Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• We cannot assume that people by virtue of the fact that they are black are going to associate themselves with progressive political struggles. We need to divest ourselves the kinds of strategies that assume that black unity black political unity is possible.

  Angela Davis

  Struggle, People, Political

  Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past. I think we have to seek to create coalitional strategies that go beyond racial lines. We need to bring black communities, Chicano communities, Puerto Rican communities, Asian American communities together.

  Angela Davis

  Thinking, Past, Issues

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• One teacher told me that my work belonged in the trash. That day I ran out of the classroom and ended up in the library, where there happened to be a black and white photography exhibition of Robert Rauschenberg's photographs of the streets of New York. The subject of his photos were exactly what I was painting about.

  Jose Parla

  Photography, Teacher, New York

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think it's a wonderful thing to have African-American characters. Look at life. It's not a white world or a black world; there are all kind of people in it. It's showing growth, and in today's world there are so many outlets.

  Darius McCrary

  Character, Thinking, White

  "The Darius McCrary Interview- The Young and the Restless". Interview with Michael Fairman, michaelfairmansoaps.com. December 22, 2009.

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• I was arrested and put in murder's row. They were trying to get me for some murders I didn't do. They had me in a cell next to Charles Manson; he was going to trial at the time. And it was all a row of black and brown guys and one white guy: Charles Manson.

  Luis J. Rodriguez

  Cells, White, Guy

  Source: bluemesareview.org

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• Because I am a one-legged, black, short, woman I had to spend every day of my life pushing against what society told me I should be. I had to sell my value every day of my life. Confidence is what enables us to push back on reality. Once you get good at that, you can use it to live your joy.

  Bonnie St. John

  Reality, Joy, Pushing

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• I don't think there has been any mayor in America scrutinized that way. I don't think there has been any mayor as a matter of fact, Coleman Young I think received an incredible amount of scrutiny and he was kind of the poster child for that in Detroit. He was the first Black mayor who really expressed his manhood in a different way than had been seen from African-American man that was projected across the country.

  Kwame Kilpatrick

  Country, Children, Men

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• It's not anything that is just perpetuated by White America or just perpetuated by Black America. It's just a cultural understanding that you're just not a part of the equation when it comes to sexuality and I think that people mistake your lack of opportunity with the level of your talent.

  Viola Davis

  Mistake, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• We know the road of lack of recognition, of people telling us that we can't headline a movie because black women don't translate overseas, that every time we try to break the glass ceiling, people say no, people push back. And it's everything that people don't see out there.

  Viola Davis

  Glasses, People, Trying

  Source: www.eonline.com

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• The internal sexism within womanhood is very ­predominant in Hollywood, because we all want to be ­successful. There's a plug to it: You all have to be skinny! You all have to be pretty! You all have to be likable, because that's the ­formula that works. On an ­executive level. On a power level. And it's not always the same working with black people, because of the internalized racism. The colorism.

  Viola Davis

  Successful, Racism, People

  "Shondaland roundtable: Viola Davis, Ellen Pompeo, and Kerry Washington go unfiltered". Interview with Melissa Maerz, ew.com. September 21, 2015.

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• Black people have slavery. And white people have our own thing-stuff we went though that hurt us that we have to cope with. Like when they took our slaves away. That was really hard for us. So it's pretty even.

  Louis C. K.

  Funny, Hurt, White

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• Farrakhan got everybody together for the Million Man March and everything. But Farrakhan don't like the Jews. Which is bugged. I get my hair cut on Dekalb Avenue. I never been in a barbershop and heard a bunch of brothers talking about Jews. Black people don't hate Jews. Black people hate white people! We don't got time to dice white people up into little groups. I hate everybody! I don't care if you just got here. "Hey, I'm Romanian." "You Romanian cracker!"

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Brother, Hate

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• Because of its exceptional capacity for self-criticism, the West took the initiative in abolishing slavery; the calls for abolition did not resonate even in black Africa, where rival African tribes took black prisoners to be sold as slaves in the West.

  Ibn Warraq

  Self, African Tribes, Criticism

  Source: counterjihadreport.com

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• I have always liked black and white! It is simple and the colour of the piano.

  Hiromi

  Black And White, Simple, Piano

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• I think we're entering a new period of filmmaking that's analogous to switching from black-and-white to color, or from silent to sound. The medium is completely flexible, and it's not bound by anything. If you imagine something, you can do it.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Black And White, Thinking, Color

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Urban artist have to face the stigma not only from white Australia but black Australia too; that's horrific when people say that their art isn't "Aboriginal" if it doesn't have dots or lines or moieties in it.

  Warwick Thornton

  Art, White, Australia

  Source: aboriginalartandculture.wordpress.com

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• In the music industry it's just you're either Black or white, and this is the box you get put in.

  India.Arie

  White, Boxes, Music Industry

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't like perpetuating the stereotype of black males being drug dealers, and criminals.

  Wesley Snipes

  Drug, Males, Criminals

  Source: collider.com

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• 'You spin in the sky, the world spins under you, and you step from land to land, while we . . .' She turned her head right, left, and her black hair curled and uncurled on the shoulder of her coat. 'We have our dull, circled lives, bound in gravity, worshiping you!'

  Samuel R. Delany

  Hair, Land, Sky

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• Who among us is not at a loss for words? Tears pour out. Tears of joy. Tears of relief. A stunning, whopping landslide of hope in a time of deep despair. In a nation that was founded on genocide and then built on the backs of slaves, it was an unexpected moment, shocking in its simplicity: Barack Obama, a good man, a black man, said he would bring change to Washington, and the majority of the country liked that idea.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Loss, Men

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• It's better to be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother.

  Charlie Pierce

  Sarcastic, Mother, Gay

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• Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets, you usually take it for granted and think you know us, but our history is far stranger than you suspect, and we are not what we seem.

  Richard Wright

  Thinking, Land, Cities

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• The abortion industry kills as many Black people every four days as the Klan killed in 150 years.

  John Piper

  Years, People, Abortion

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• Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.

  George Chapman

  Eye, Jewels, Pearls

  George Chapman (1874). “The Works of George Chapman: Plays”, p.37

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