- People
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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
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
My perspective is hard because I look at wardrobe from very much a guy's perspective. You look at my closet and I have pairs of black jeans and five button-downs, but one's silk, one's cotton. They all are slightly different, so that's my perspective.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
Race in America has always centered on our mutual agreement not to see each other. White or non-white. Black or non-black. Mongoloid, Hindoo. We've always bought into to the crudest, humanity-denying forms of sorting.
- Desktop
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- Nov 07, 2020
The summer of 1991, I took $2,000 of my savings and a desktop program, and I asked my friends to write 800 words about something they cared about. I got eight or nine articles and put them together. It was no frills, black and white, no graphics. I printed them out and just dumped piles around D.C.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When black men become millionaires and can buy expensive homes for their families, it infuriates people who cherish the social construct where white people are at the top and people of other ethnic backgrounds are below.
- Black And White
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- Nov 07, 2020
My computer background is a black and white picture I took of the Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum in Brazil.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I want to know how to do a black cat eye, I don't drive to a department store. I'll go on YouTube, cross-check reviews of a product, and then maybe talk about it on Instagram.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely went through some dark teenage years. I wore black raccoon eyeliner every single day. I would be late to school if I didn't have time to put my eyeliner on.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Vinod Khosla is best known for shunning convention and taking massive risks on companies he calls 'black swans' -companies with a near-complete chance of failure. But, if they succeed, the world will be forever changed.
- Black Or White
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- Nov 07, 2020
In March of 1933 we witnessed a revolution in manner, in mores, in the definition of government. What before had been black or white sprang alive with color.
- Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020