Black Quotes - Page 38

• For black folks, the camera provided a means to document a reality that could, if necessary, be packed, stored, moved from place to place... [Photography] offered a way to contain memories, to overcome loss, to keep history.

  Bell Hooks

  Photography, Memories, Mean

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• When we concentrate on photography, we make it possible to see the walls of photographs in black homes as a critical intervention, a disruption of white control over black images.

  Bell Hooks

  Photography, Wall, Home

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• According to Life & Style Weekly, 50 Cent may be working on Lindsay Lohan's next album. Finally, a match made in rap heaven. He's a convicted drug dealer who's been shot nine times, and she spent 84 minutes in prison. This is a big step for Lindsay. The last time Lindsay got near a black guy she ran over his foot.

  Chelsea Handler

  Rap, Feet, Guy

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• Black folks never bungie jump. That's too much like lynching for us. I'm gonna let you tie a rope around me and push me off a bridge? You must be out your damn mind.

  D. L. Hughley

  Lynching, Bridges, Ties

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• They didn't have to describe Jesus to me for me to know he's black. Jesus' first miracle was turning water into wine at a wedding. Now if that ain't black folk, I don't know what is.

  D. L. Hughley

  Jesus, Wine, Water

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• They had this movie called Juno about a teenage girl who gets pregnant and it's nominated for an Oscar. That's an unusual experience for me, 'cause when a black girl gets pregnant it ain't no Oscar. It's social work and a box of condoms is what that is.

  D. L. Hughley

  Girl, Teenage, Oscars

  The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, January 17, 2008.

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• I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in Black women's lives.

  Solange Knowles

  Thinking, Hair, Other Cultures

  "Exclusive: Solange Knowles Shares Her Natural Hair Secrets" by Corynne Corbett, www.essence.com. May 31, 2012.

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• If you are a black woman, you get two history months in a row.

  Artie Lange

  Two, Months, Ifs

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• Look, I made a commitment to corn 17 years ago. Sure, I'm a man. I like to go to a barbecue and see beans that I like: baked beans, red beans, black beans, big plump garbanzos. But in the end, I always come home to my sweet, sweet corn.

  George Lopez

  Sweet, Home, Commitment

  "George Lopez". www.imdb.com. 2002 - 2007.

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• Since the white man says he came from the evolution of animals, well, maybe the black man didn't. The white man has made so many errors in the handling of people that maybe he did come from a gorilla or a fish and crawl up on the sand and then into the trees. Of course, evolution doesn't take God into consideration. I don't think people learned to do all the things they do through evolution.

  Charles Mingus

  God, Men, Thinking

  "Charles Mingus: More Than A Fake Book". Book by Andrew Homzy, November 1, 1991.

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• None of us were prepared to hear what Justice Scalia said, because in essence what he was saying is let`s go back to pre-Board of Education - Brown versus Board of Education, 1950s America where blacks are doing all right going to black schools or schools where blacks go. He said go to less advanced schools where they do all right. We`re going back to separate but equal.

  Chris Hayes

  School, Essence, America

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• We were arguing about what was good to deal with making education fairer, diverse and more American. We were not arguing about where black scientists get a good education.

  Chris Hayes

  Arguing, Scientist, Good Education

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• A poor white woman from the South is different than a poor black woman from the South, and has a completely different experience.

  Bryan Fuller

  White, Different Experiences, Poor

  Source: collider.com

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• Yet again, the family of a young black man is grieving a life cut short. Yet again, the streets of an American city are marred by violence. What we have seen in Baltimore should, indeed I think does, tear at our soul.

  Hillary Clinton

  Cutting, Thinking, Grieving

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I learned a lot. I really did. Millennium is a state of mind. I always thought of Frank Black as the greatest chess player that could take random pieces of information and string them together into a scenario that was accurate. I never thought of him as a psychic at all. We need people like that.

  Lance Henriksen

  Player, Psychics, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Creating a world that reflects the inner voyage of our characters was really important. Also, because this isn't a black and white show, and this isn't about bad guys and good guys, but it's about good men being capable of bad things and vice versa, I wanted to be in a city that had contradiction.

  Veena Sud

  Character, Black And White, Men

  Source: collider.com

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• The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.

  Betty Friedan

  Black And White, Men, Boss

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Part of the popularity with Louis Farrakhan has less to do with the content of his message and more to do with the form that he portrays himself - as being a free, black person who speaks what is on his mind with boldness and fearlessness. Who is willing to pay the consequences.

  Cornel West

  Mind, Pay, Messages

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When black America is on the move, America is on the move.

  Cornel West

  Moving, America, Black America

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The problem is that affirmative action could never really get at the issue of corporate power in the workplace, and so you ended up with the downsizing; you ended up with de-industrializing. You ended up with the marginalizing of working people and working poor people even while affirmative action was taking place, and a new black middle class was expanding.

  Cornel West

  Class, Issues, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think we must never, ever demonize one another. That's true not just black people to black people; that's human being to human being.

  Cornel West

  Thinking, People, Humans

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There ought to be a robust, uninhibited conversation in black America with different black ideological perspectives.

  Cornel West

  America, Perspective, Different

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If the churches don't move, much of the community won't move. We've got a situation in which a black church is still a major institution in the black community where 55 percent of the black folk attend and over 75 pass through its doors.

  Cornel West

  Moving, Doors, Community

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The black church is dormant, much of the community is dormant. If the black church is leaning toward the right, much of the community is leaning toward the right. If it is leaning in the left wing direction having repercussions.

  Cornel West

  Wings, Community, Church

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think Black Eyed Peas are kind of unique in the ways they produce their songs. Their songs are very current.

  Steve Pink

  Song, Thinking, Unique

  Source: collider.com

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