Black Quotes - Page 35

• I like most kinds of music. So I haven't got a bag, as they say... except the big black one in the hall outside.

  Paul McCartney

  Bags, Kind, Bigs

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• I had a non-existent knowledge of Queen Victoria's early years. Like everyone else, I thought of her as an old lady dressed in black. My mom had told me about her, though, that she had a very loving relationship with Albert, that they had lots of kids, and that he died young.

  Emily Blunt

  Mom, Queens, Kids

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• Black men, you were once great; you shall be great again. Lose not courage or faith, go forward.

  Marcus Garvey

  Men, Loses

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.58, Ravenio Books

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• Sports was a great equalizer. It didn't have color. It didn't matter whether you were rich or poor, black or white. It really shaped me in many ways to be able to deal with a lot of different personalities and different cultures. Sports were the common thread.

  Howard Schultz

  Sports, Rich Or Poor, Color

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• We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.

  Rand Paul

  Law, Community, Drug

  "NAACP chief: A GOP path to black votes" By Benjamin Todd Jealous, www.cnn.com. April 24, 2013.

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• Why are they picking on boxing? It's because the black men are so superior in boxing that they want to stop it. Well, the black man's so hungry he's got to fight.

  Muhammad Ali

  Fighting, Men, Boxing

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• Mr. president, I've been a citizen of the United States of America for thirty three years and was never invited to the White House. It sure gives me pleasure to be invited to the Black House.

  Muhammad Ali

  Years, White, America

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• The economic philosophy of black nationalism only means that our people need to be re-educated into the importance of controlling the economy of the community in which we live, which means that we won't have to constantly be involved in picketing and boycotting other people in other communities in order to get jobs.

  Malcolm X

  Jobs, Philosophy, Mean

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• Rs 6500 crore disclosed under compliance window of black money & foreign assets law. People fear the law that has now been created. Stringent provisions will not be diluted despite pressures.

  Narendra Modi

  Law, People, Pressure

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• At G-20 summit, I worked with US and other countries to bring black money back.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Summit, Other Countries

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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 think the way you can tell if a guy and girl are in a serious relationship is whether or not they have black and white pictures of themselves together. That's the real test. Because it takes effort to get nice black and white photos. If you've gone that far, there's no turning back.

  Aaron Karo

  Girl, Real, Nice

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

  Muhammad Ali

  Names, White, Slave

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

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• Jealousy can open the blood, it can make black roses.

  Sylvia Plath

  Blood, Rose

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “Ariel: The Restored Edition”, p.189, Faber & Faber

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• These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic calligraphy imprinted upon their forms and upon their attitudes, as though with the purpose of revealing that it had been a hand of the Middle Ages which had inscribed them there, and especially the fatal and melancholy meaning contained in them, struck the author deeply.

  Victor Hugo

  Attitude, Hands, Greek

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• I was sometimes jeered by black soldiers who wanted me to sing something besides country music.

  Charley Pride

  Country, Soldier, Sometimes

  Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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• It was unlikely that anyone had ever heard a black person sing country music.

  Charley Pride

  Country, Unlikely, Heard

  Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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• There were very few black people in Montana but we never felt out of place.

  Charley Pride

  People, Montana, Felt

  Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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• I'm a dark blonde, yes. I dyed my hair blue, then black, when I was 14. I thought the colour was more flattering and matched my skin tone. I don't think I'd ever change back unless it was for a film.

  Eva Green

  Dark, Thinking, Skin Tone

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• Even in the days when they did Othello, you didn't necessarily have to be black to play Othello. You wore the makeup.

  Jamie Farr

  Makeup, Play

  Interview with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. May 24, 1995.

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• Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this genre for its intensity, extremism and underlying irony: You have to be alive to play it and listen to it.

  Henry Rollins

  Play, White, Hair

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• Barack Obama's administration responded to the Haitian crisis within 24 hours. Here comes the soldiers, here comes the food, go go go... Rush Limbaugh told his multi-millions of listeners that Obama only did that to gain favour with black people in America. This is the kind of idiocy that I have to deal with in my country.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, America, People

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• I hate painting with a broad brush, but I think the birther thing, at its root, is racist. The guy was born in Hawaii. A black guy is president. It's cool. Get over it. Just deal with it. There's nothing you could show these birther people that would shut them up.

  Henry Rollins

  Hate, Thinking, Roots

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• I wonder what it's like to be from a state that is spread across a few islands way out in the Pacific Ocean, only added to the United States in 1959. Not only that but to be the birthplace of America's first black president? Pretty cool, I bet.

  Henry Rollins

  Ocean, Birth Place, America

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• The fact is, in the minds of many, Trayvon Martin received the appropriate punishment for a true crime: He was black, male and dared to walk outside. In life, young Trayvon was just a teenager; in death, he has been transformed into a scary, lurking, suspicious, prone-to-violence spook.

  Henry Rollins

  Teenager, Punishment, Scary

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