- Beauty
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is, for me, as a black woman, as an African woman, a sense of possibility in America that I don't feel when I'm in Europe.
- Nov 07, 2020
I love white T-shirts as much as I love black. I often wear total black. It's my favourite.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should think that any number of black writers should go into the detective story form.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing about being black in a mostly white industry, particularly as a black male, is you can't lose your temper in the same way. Essentially, you are an angry black man losing his temper in a way that's unprofessional, as opposed to an industry that has protected unprofessional white males in perpetua.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
All black art, post-slavery, has always tried to prove in its own way that a black life is the equivalent of anyone else's.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as black people preserve their culture in Harlem, Harlem will always be alive.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted Luke Cage to very much be an African American superhero rather than a superhero that happens to be black. I felt it was important to give him that cultural grounding but also show that it doesn't make him an obtuse or one-sided character.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
All black art is always judged to illuminate our experience and prove that our stories and our history and our lives matter. And that goes back to Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston - take your pick.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, hip-hop has always been black superhero music.
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing police patrol cops - in certain situations - are expert at is spotting anomalies. When you are a black person that is driving in a place that you stick out, that's all they're going to see.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the imagination, Harlem will always be the spiritual capital of black excellence in America.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020