Black Quotes - Page 36

• I like boring black and white films with subtitles. I'm basically a drip.

  Henry Rollins

  Black And White, Film, Boring

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• I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singing Black Sabbath songs year after year, whether he was performing with Black Sabbath or out on a solo tour. He said it was great.

  Henry Rollins

  Song, Years, People

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• It's a loser's emblem (swastika), because the Nazis lost the war. It's ridiculous to suggest we are involved with fascists. All my best friends are black, gay, Irish or criminals.

  John Lydon

  War, Gay, My Best Friend

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• One of my favorite - well, my favorite, favorite, absolute favorite event to go to is Alfre Woodard has a party that I call the blacktress party. It's, like, black actresses that either have been nominated for an Oscar or should have been, and it sort of is just a night where we all get in a room and we get to celebrate each other.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Party, Night, Should Have

  "Gabourey Sidibe, From 'Precious' To 'AfroPop'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 31, 2013.

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• We all have a large stake in preserving our democracy, but I maintain that those without power in our society, the black, the brown, the poor of all colors, have the largest stake not because we have the most to lose, but because we have worked the hardest, and given the most, for what we have achieved.

  Charles Rangel

  Color, Democracy, Our Society

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• Emmett Till and I were about the same age. A week after he was murdered... I stood on a corner with a gang of boys, looking at pictures of him in the black newspapers and magazines. In one, he was laughing and happy. In the other, his head was swollen and bashed in, his eyes bulging out of their sockets, and his mouth twisted and broken... I couldn't get Emmett Till out of my mind, until one evening I thought of a way to get back at white people for his death.

  Muhammad Ali

  Eye, Boys, White

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• What I would really like to have been, given a perfect world, is a jazz pianist. I mean jazz. I don't mean rock and roll. I mean the never-the-same-twice music the American black people gave the world.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Mean, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• The Word is the Magic that Humans possess and misuse of the Word is Black Magic...
  Be Impeccable with Your Word.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Magic, Misuse, Humans

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• People keep telling me about the white race and the black race - and it really doesn't make sense. I played Miami, met a fellow two shades darker than me - and his name was Ginsberg! Took my place in two sit-in demonstrations - nobody knew the difference. The he tried for a third lunch counter and blew the whole bit ... asked for blintzes.

  Dick Gregory

  Race, Names, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another.

  Dick Gregory

  Lying, White, Years

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• Black conservatives have a right to exist, but why would I want to walk around with a swastika on my shirt after the way Hitler done messed it up?

  Dick Gregory

  Done, Want, Way

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• Where else but in America can a poor black man like Michael Jackson grow up to be a rich white woman?

  Red Buttons

  Growing Up, Men, White

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• I always wanted to play a big, black man, but that would cost too much make-up.

  Robin Williams

  Men, Play, Cost

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• When you're white, the sky's the limit. When you're black, the limit's the sky.

  Chris Rock

  Sky, White, Limits

  "Chris Rock: Bigger & Blacker". Comedy, Documentary, www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• Black movies don't have real names, they have names like Barbershop. That's not a name, that's just a location.

  Chris Rock

  Real, Names, Location

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• If you see a black woman with an overweight white man, you know she got effed up credit!

  Chris Rock

  Men, White Man, Credit

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• I was raised to believe that you had to do things better than white people in order to succeed. The old black shows were better than the white shows. "The Jeffersons" (1975) was a lot better. "Good Times" (1974) was way funnier. "Sanford and Son" (1972). Now, though, everyone thinks we're equal, so we submit the same shit that everyone else submits. And then we get mad when they won't air it. You got to go back to the old attitude of it has to be twice as good.

  Chris Rock

  Attitude, Believe, Son

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of racism going on in the world right now. Who's more racist? Black people or white people? Black people. You know why? 'Cuz we hate black people too! Everything white people don't like about black people, black people really don't like about black people.

  Chris Rock

  Hate, White, Racism

  "Chris Rock: Bring the Pain". TVSpecial, www.imdb.com. June 1, 1996.

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• My cat, Ethel, is an indoor cat but somehow she's sneakin' out at night. 'Cause the other morning I found a stamp on her paw... I wouldn't have noticed myself, but I just bought this new black light and she passed right under it and I said, 'Hey, what's that on you paw?

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Morning, Cat, Night

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• At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.

  Bette Davis

  Doors, Clothes, Wreaths

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• I’m supposed to be all re-injected with yes-we-can fever after the big health care speech, and it was a great speech - when Black Elvis gets jiggy with his teleprompter, there is none better. But here’s the thing: Muhammad Ali also had a way with words, but it helped enormously that he could also punch guys in the face.

  Bill Maher

  Yes We Can, Guy, Fever

  Bill Maher (2011). “The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass”, p.162, Penguin

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• People say I'm into black women. Robert De Niro is into black women. I'm just into women who are real, and they happen to be black.

  Bill Maher

  Real, People, De Niro

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• White people have always shown their superiority over blacks with their feet, moving out of black neighborhoods with the fear that their kids will turn into one of them. And now, through the magic of MTV, damned if it didn't turn out that way!

  Bill Maher

  Moving, Kids, White

  "Real Time with Bill Maher". imdb.com. 2003.

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• Anton brings the camera. I'll bring a tuba, wear black, not shave, and take us to a burned-down Chinese restaurant. (On being photographed by his longtime photo collaborator Anton Corbijn)

  Tom Waits

  Chinese, Cameras, Tubas

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• I'm so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.

  Bernie Mac

  Coal, Fingerprints

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