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- Nov 07, 2020
Black Quotes
Black holes, bias, and belonging, all in one word.
This collection ranges from cosmic curiosity about black holes and possibility to a pointed observation about racial conditioning and who gets blamed for problems. For quotes on subtler, quieter qualities, see Mystery quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- First One
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- Nov 07, 2020
After 27 years, I walked out of my first one a few months ago. Black Sheep with Chris Farley.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and we just did it.
- Nov 07, 2020
Even if it's a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no white comic that sells tickets to black people like me. They're going to get their hair done, get a new outfit, and come out to see a white dude.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
- Meetings
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black players had an issue with Joe Torre. They weren't treated like everybody else. Even I got called out in a couple of meetings that I thought was unfair.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.
- Golf Balls
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Valdosta, Ga., during a mini-tour event, a player named James Black bet me $20 he could put five golf balls in his mouth and then close his mouth all the way. I tried it but could get only two in there.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have four strikes against me. I'm black, I'm short, I'm intelligent, and I have a medical condition.
- Black Americans
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- Nov 07, 2020
Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had, are sort of insulted that the civil rights movement is being hijacked - the rhetoric of the civil rights movement is being hijacked for something like same sex marriage. Black Americans tend to have a higher degree of religiosity.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
The school I went to was a little farm school in Wannaska, student body 61 or something. There was a kid, the only black kid in our county, Dustin Byfuglien. He won the Stanley Cup a couple years back with the Blackhawks. Out of a class of 21 kids, he and I always had to be on opposite teams on everything because we were the most athletic.
- Slow
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it.
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- Nov 07, 2020