Black Quotes - Page 5

• Even when the polls are open to all, Negroes have shown themselves too slow to exercise their voting privileges. There must be a concerted effort on the part of Negro leaders to arouse their people from their apathetic indifference.... In the past, apathy was a moral failure. Today, it is a form of moral and political suicide.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Suicide, Exercise, Past

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

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• Naturally we need black men to give this movie serious credibility.

  Walter Hill

  Men, Giving, Needs

  "Undisputed: Interview". Interview with Clint Morris, www.webwombat.com.au.

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• There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.

  Malcolm X

  White, Unity, Firsts

  Spike Lee, Ralph Wiley, Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary: the trials and tribulations of the making of Malcolm X”, Hyperion Books

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• I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

  Ralph Ellison

  Men, People, Black History

  Invisible Man prologue (1952)

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• It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater.

  Alvin Ailey

  People, Marketing, Sophisticated

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• Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?

  Tyra Banks

  Girl, Sexy, Doors

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• Reckless capitalism kills black people.

  Mos Def

  People, Reckless, Capitalism

  "Mos Def: The Ecstatic" by Gareth Grundy, www.theguardian.com. August 22, 2009.

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• You really can change the world if you care enough.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Inspirational, Change, Black History

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• There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.

  Ernest Gaines

  Change, Struggle, Past

  Ernest J. Gaines, John Lowe (1995). “Conversations with Ernest Gaines”, p.29, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.

  Laurence Olivier

  Life, Disappointment, Sunset

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• Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

  Colin Powell

  Inspirational, Military, Work

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• Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?

  Ridley Scott

  Black And White, Gray Area, Black White

  "Sir Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven". "Hannity & Colmes" with Alan Colmes, www.foxnews.com. May 5, 2005.

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• I mean, I'm pretty good in real life, but sometimes people seem surprised that I'm like a normal teenager and wear black nail polish and I'm just a little bit more edgy than the person I play on television.

  Brittany Snow

  Real, Teenager, Mean

  "The Pacifier - Q&A With Brittany Snow, Max Thieriot and Morgan York". Phase9 Interview, www.phase9.tv.

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• I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.

  Tina Turner

  And Love, Would Be, World

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• It is frustrating to be a Black woman in the entertainment industry.

  Dionne Warwick

  Entertainment, Frustrating, Industry

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• Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.

  Steven Wright

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.

  Zakk Wylde

  Life, Black And White, Color

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• If black boxes survive air crashes - why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?

  George Carlin

  Funny, Travel, Airplane

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• Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight.

  Jesse Jackson

  God, Black And White, Yellow

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• Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.

  Stanley Crouch

  Music, Rap, Rocks

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• I think it talks about the fact that there are black people in the world who have tremendous amount of talents and have no channel through which they can those talents.

  Joe Morton

  Thinking, People, World

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• The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better.

  Ewan McGregor

  Romantic, Running, Black And White

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2002.

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• The way I was brought up by my parents and guided through my football life by the influences of various managers means that in some ways I am black and white.

  Stuart Pearce

  Football, Mean, Black And White

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• In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right.

  Yannick Noah

  Sports, Doe, Strikes

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• In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.

  Verne Troyer

  Character, Men, Pun

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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