- Education
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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
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black person to hold our president accountable for his actions.
- Prison
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- Nov 07, 2020
Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.
- Black Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the networks have always been willing to have ethnic people as the third or fourth lead or the best friend to the white person. But to actually let a black family or an Asian family carry a show, that's something where there hasn't really been a precedent set in terms of a real financial gain.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighbourhood.
- Nov 07, 2020
Let me tell you the truth: I'm 45 years old. I never thought that I would live to see a black president.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Civil rights leaders, including my husband and Albert Turner, have fought long and hard to achieve free and unfettered access to the ballot box. Mr. Sessions has used the awesome power of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens in the district he now seeks to serve as a federal judge.
- Library
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always the only black in the movie theater, the only black in class, the only black in the library, the only black in the discotheque. I always felt observed and judged.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People notice if you are black. People notice if you are female. We are certainly not either colorblind or gender-blind in this country, so I'm not suggesting that it isn't a factor. But I think in the final analysis, people will take a look at the positions, and they'll take a look at the issues.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been told I sound black.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started writing in the '90s, so I was free to just have an eccentric career and not conform to some idea of what a black writer has to do. I didn't have the burden of representation.
- Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up as a product of the black civil-rights movement, I had a lot of different models for black weirdness, whether it's Richard Pryor or James Baldwin or Jimmy Walker.
- Driving
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- Nov 07, 2020