- 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
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a big rock 'n' roll head, I love country music, I love yodeling music. But I'm still black and funky.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black men, we're known for getting into some drama with other black men, specifically black-on-black crime. We're used to the confrontational attitude.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't sing white; I don't sing black - I sing Bronx. When I sing 'Ruby Baby,' I'm rolling like Jimmy Reed. I wanted to communicate like Hank Williams and groove like Jimmy Reed.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was mostly influenced by bands like Black Sabbath and Judas Priest - Metallica's 'Kill 'Em All' was also a hell of an inspiration.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Between Alan Freed in Cleveland and Bob Horn and Lee Stewart in Philadelphia and George 'Hound Dog' Lorenz in Buffalo, they began to find out that white kids liked black music. It was a very significant period of time before I got there.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.
- Nov 07, 2020
I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they claim they sell very respectable numbers of my books, so I guess, and it's true, every place I go, my books are in libraries and on bookshelves.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans have an interesting conundrum, a black and white line: You're on one side or the other of Puritanism or licentiousness. But that gray area where people abide, between their ears or on the Internet, needs to be fleshed out more in terms of permission granted.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will be the first black James Bond.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020