- Mother
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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
- Brotherly
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone at night. I picked up two stones just in case, but I wasn't afraid of him. I felt a hunter's exhilaration and a brotherly feeling.
- Comparable
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd never seen anything like it in my life. Someone so blatantly challenging the ideas of race and gender and sexuality. In a way, it was comparable to David Bowie, except that Prince brought that to the black community.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am black in a predominantly white industry, and I have been luckier than most.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not a common thing for a Southern white family to go out and seek their black cousins.
- Comparable
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- Nov 07, 2020
In America, black urban teenagers have long been lacking in inclusion. In France, there is a comparable lack of inclusion among North Africans. In much of Europe, there has been little attempt to include the Roma.
- High Unemployment
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- Nov 07, 2020
My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have little representation of young black men in the business sector, so you have children growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods who don't hear discussions at the dinner table about what goes on in business. It's almost as if we have two nations.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.
- Conversation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus Christ and that the born-again are not just little old ladies in black but also CEOs and provosts of universities and candidates for office.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
- Nov 07, 2020
Black is not a color.
- Limits
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both European and American historians have done away with any conceptual limits on what in the past needs and deserves investigating. The result, among other things, has been a flood of works on gender history, black history, and ethnic history of all kinds.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020