- Easy
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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
- Stereotypes
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- Nov 07, 2020
We put stereotypes on ourselves. Everybody does that. But I think it's just a little harder for black kids to just be who they are.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black men struggle with masculinity so much. The idea that we must always be strong really presses us all down - it keeps us from growing.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black culture is a fight. We want to hold on to what we are, but sometimes the things that we are can be totally negative. You have to think: can't we try something new and not be seen as suspect?
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's an incredible dilemma to be an artist of color and to always be in denial about that, saying, 'I'm a choreographer first and then I'm black,' when in fact, that's not the case. I'm black first and then I'm also a choreographer.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
More often than not, we think of ourselves as black, white, Asian, or Hispanic pretty much in this country, but the real America is much more than that.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born gay, just as I was born black.
- Learn
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- Nov 07, 2020
Learn to love being black.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a gay black guy. If I can't ask questions without caring what people think of me, who can?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Governing means governing all of the people, no matter what demographic it is, whether it'd be black, white, women, straight, gay, Republican.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're always trailing, as far as the amount of roles that are written for us and the films that are being made that have black characters in them. I don't know if that's going to change.
- Noble
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- Nov 07, 2020
So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
I imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in blaxploitation movies. There was a much greater preponderance of work then than there is now.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug beefs.
- Nov 07, 2020
I felt that it was my mission to see to it that black talent had an opportunity to get national television exposure.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020