Black Quotes - Page 16

• There are black Christians, and black Muslims in Africa who are being slaughtered, they don't want to hear about the Jim Crow laws. There are Christians, there are other Muslims being slaughtered in the Middle East, they don't need a lecture from Obama about Christianity. The fact of the matter is Obama is not doing anything effective or substantive to stop genocide in our time.

  Mark Levin

  Christian, Jim Crow Laws, Middle East

  "Mark Levin: Obama 'A Nihilist, A Narcissist And An Extremist;" Warns "We Are Going To Get Hit Again'". www.realclearpolitics.com. February 05, 2015.

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• Clearly a black man's life is not worth a ham sandwich.

  Michael Steele

  Men, Sandwiches, Ham

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• Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide.

  Edward Young

  Suicide, Wings, Soul

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.103

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• Just as with cars, it's critical to know the fuel efficiency of black holes.

  Steve Allen

  Car, Fuel, Efficiency

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• I think that it would be more true to life, true to the Bible. I wouldn't have a problem with a black man playing Jesus. Being born in that part of the world, he would be more close to being black than white anyway. Although what he did transcended all races.

  Unknown

  Bible, Jesus, Men

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• This is what heaven's gonna be like. Not just a white church or a black church, but people.

  Mr. Wrestling

  White, People, Heaven

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• We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

  Scott Adams

  Ignorance, Views, Sea

  "The Call of Cthulhu". Short story by H.P. Lovecraft, www.hplovecraft.com. 1928.

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• The 'black armband' view of our history reflects a belief that most Australian history since 1788 has been little more than a disgraceful story of imperialism, exploitation, racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination. I take a very different view. I believe that the balance sheet of our history is one of heroic achievement and that we have achieved much more as a nation of which we can be proud of than which we should be ashamed.

  John Howard

  Believe, Views, Racism

  Sir Robert Menzies Lecture, 1996.

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• What is superstition , but misguided, unobjective science? And when it comes down to that, is it to be wondered if people grasp at superstition in this rotten, hate-filled, half-doomed world of today? Lord knows, I'd welcome the blackest of black magic, if it could do anything to stave off the atom bomb.

  Fritz Leiber

  Hate, People, Magic

  Fritz Leiber (2014). “Conjure Wife”, p.18, Open Road Media

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• I'm not ideological. I think sometimes when people are ideological, the world's a lot easier. Because it falls into either right or wrong, or black or white, or whatever. To me, I'm still trying to figure out a lot of things.

  John O. Brennan

  Fall, Thinking, White

  "Obama's Drone-Master". Interview with Reid Cherlin, www.gq.com. June 17, 2013.

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• I'm not so in with the prescriptive avant-garde agenda. I can do that sort of thing, but I feel that I'm still interested enough in song structure. When I look at a lyric on the page, the lyric is alive to me, looking like soldiers in a field. I can move it around, and it's very black-and-white.

  Scott Walker

  Song, Moving, Black And White

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My own sense of the world is that very little is absolute or black and white or easily understood. I suppose in all my writing I'm trying to cast the reader into this spiritually ambivalent dream world, which hopefully mirrors more honestly the complex reality we find ourselves in.

  Andre Dubus

  Dream, Writing, Black And White

  Source: thekingsenglish.wordpress.com

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• When I walk out into the street or go to the toilet, I don't think of myself as being black. Of course, other people think of me as black when I walk into a pub. Obviously being black is a part of me.

  Steve McQueen

  Thinking, People, Toilets

  Source: www.artmonthly.co.uk

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• I think white people like to tell Asian people how they should feel about race because they're too scared to tell black people.

  Margaret Cho

  Thinking, Race, White

  "Margaret Cho: PsyCHO". TV Special, www.thedailybeast.com. September 25, 2015.

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• My film is very simple: An Eastern European story full of black humor about things everyone can feel and understand.

  Malgorzata Szumowska

  Simple, Stories, Film

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I found my personal style in black humor and mixing funny things with very touching ones - like trying to force people to cry and smile almost at the same moment.

  Malgorzata Szumowska

  Funny Things, People, Touching

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The key word for my book The Woman in Black is unsettling... because you're not terrified all of the time or even frightened, but you're unsettled and once you're unsettled, then the door's open.

  Susan Hill

  Book, Keys, Doors

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The beauty of when you watch good television or films is that, yes, you may have a multi-cultural cast but those roles could be anybody - they could be white, they could be black. To show the world that we have more in common than we have different with each other is to me the ultimate goal of all of that. It does help unite in people's mind the thought that people are the same. Yes, there's going to be cultural differences, but for the most part, we are all in the same gang as human beings.

  Mekhi Phifer

  White, Differences, People

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• We have a black President in the United States. I think the world has matured. It's no longer about colour, but the person in the skin.

  Marlon Wayans

  Thinking, Skins, President

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I really am a guy who can be black and white. I don't understand, too much, the gray. And truly I can go from one type of character to another type of character.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Character, Black And White, Guy

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 10, 2008.

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• I don't really care who collects my work, black, white, red, yellow. You have to also be consciously aware of, what does this mean in your home? And how are you supporting this work and the message behind the work?

  Nick Cave

  Home, Mean, Yellow

  "Nick Cave’s Object Permanence" by Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 19, 2014.

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• It was shocking to see Nirvana play, because it was like, "Here's this little guy with a monster-guitar sound." And it was heavier than Black Sabbath. That was shocking.

  Billy Corgan

  Guitar, Play, Guy

  Interview with Marc Hawthorne, www.avclub.com. June 30, 2005.

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• I'm a black American playwright. I couldn't be anything else. I make my art out of black American culture; they're all cut out of the same cloth. That's who I am; that's who I write about.

  August Wilson

  Art, Writing, Cutting

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• There's no reason why you can't say "August Wilson, playwright" even though all of my work, every single play, is about black Americans, about black American culture, about the black experience in America. I write about the black experience of men, or I write about black folks. That's who I am. In the same manner that Chekhov wrote about the Russians, I write about blacks. I couldn't do anything else. I wouldn't do anything else.

  August Wilson

  Writing, Men, Who I Am

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• There are a lot of people who believe that the individual can't make it himself. And that's why people want to join up in various herds - herd formation. So you become part of a herd, a group. Group power of some kind. There's an awful lot of group power people in our country [the USA] - Black power, Chinese power, Indian power, woman power. Everyone is putting in together.

  Frank Capra

  Country, Believe, Usa

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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