Black Quotes - Page 25

• If you don't know what color to take, take black.

  Pablo Picasso

  Color, Knows, Ifs

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• Donald Trump insisted yesterday that he is not racist, because one time an African-American won Apprentice. Because nothing says 'not racist' like making a black man run your errands.

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, Men, Yesterday

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• Trump says he wants to run for president. Why not? It wouldn't be the first time he pushed a black family out of their home.

  Snoop Dogg

  Running, Home, President

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• Master Michelangelo once said that 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.' This is what we must do when we see an ignorant man: To set him free from the black marble we call ignorance!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ignorance, Angel, Men

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• If black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people?

  Sister Souljah

  White, People, Why Not

  "Obama’s Terrorism Speech: Another Break With Democratic Party Orthodoxy" by Thomas B. Edsal, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for him, and setting it before him in black and white.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Black And White, Thinking, Interesting

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2005). “The Country of the Pointed Firs: And Selected Short Fiction”, Barnes & Noble

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• I don't like black. You wear black when you're miserable.

  Loulou de la Falaise

  Miserable

  "Loulou de la Falaise obituary" by Veronica Horwell, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2011.

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• Since felons are subsequently disfranchised, the US now has 1.75 million people disqualified from voting because of their criminality- 1.4 million black men have forfeited their right to vote, almost 15 per cent of the black male population.

  Jeremy Seabrook

  Men, People, Voting

  Jeremy Seabrook (2003). “The No-nonsense Guide to World Poverty”, p.14, Verso

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• No black or white America-just United States of America.

  Barack Obama

  White, America, United States

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• Black churches minister to social needs out of necessity.

  Barack Obama

  Church, Needs, Social

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• I'm not racist, I've got a black president.

  Dane Cook

  President, Racist

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• I wear the black for those who never read.

  Johnny Cash

  Song: Man In Black

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• Colour disturbs people. I am confident in black, not in light. This dark side of life is attractive to me forever and from the beginning. I am a lazy designer when it comes to colour.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Dark, Light, People

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• I love black lingerie and white shoes, and I love knives.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Knives, Shoes, White

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• I think the only reason Clarence Thomas is on the court is because he is black

  Joe Biden

  Thinking, Reason, Court

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• I'm the ghetto Martha Stewart, the black Rachel Ray.

  Coolio

  Ghetto, Rays, Black Ghetto

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• For me, Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' defines New York. Both New York and Manhattan Island should be in black in white! I always hear the soundtrack of Gershwin in my head every time I go over the Queensboro Bridge, or come in from JFK because of it!

  Brian Cox

  New York, Islands, Bridges

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• When you look at me you don't immediately imagine a very very glamorous icon, so it's only in the theater that I get to do these experiments. I've been an actor about 51 years now. I've played everything from an 8-year-old black boy to a 72-year-old French matriarch, and they hardly hire you to do that on TV.

  Tyne Daly

  Boys, Years, Icons

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• There is only one direction. (Down.) There is only one color. (Black.) And there is only one number (Zero.)

  Errol Morris

  Zero, One Direction, Color

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• Some black people want to get in touch with their African roots. But then you got some black people that just don't give a damn. You tell them, 'Hey, I just got back from the motherland.' "They're like, 'Where'd you go - Detroit? Did you see The Temptations?'

  Wanda Sykes

  Damn You, Roots, People

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• I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.

  Maya Angelou

  Song, Mean, Southern

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• Stotting is jumping upward with all four legs simultaneously. My advice: do not die until you've seen a large black poodle stotting in the snow.

  Douglas Adams

  Jumping, Snow, Advice

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.40, Del Rey

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• The black kids, the poor white kids, Spanish-speaking kids, and Asian kids in the US - in the face of everything to the contrary, they still bop and bump, shout and go to school somehow. Their optimism gives me hope.

  Maya Angelou

  Kids, School, White

  "Visions: Maya Angelou". Interview With Ken Kelley, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1995.

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• Now each one of us, black or white, is a symbol. The war is out in the open and the skin color is a uniform. All the deep and basic similarities of the human condition are forgotten so that we can exaggerate the few differences that exist.

  John D. MacDonald

  War, White, Differences

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• Victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed.

  Robert Kennedy

  Black And White, Important, Violence

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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