- Love
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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
I don't know how me having a conversation with Tomi Lahren all of a sudden turned into me hating black women.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess I have kind of a type. Pretty much anybody who shows up in a black leather overcoat, I've doubled for them.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I majored in directing. However, I did spend some time at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, so I am somewhat well-versed in African Studies.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a big thing for me to read black writers. 'Fences,' by August Wilson. James Baldwin's 'Amen Corner.' 'The Fire Next Time.' 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X,' of course.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
People wanna say that they're part Native American or mixed, or anything other than black. We're raised to believe that there's something better about not being fully black, something eccentric about it. I'm saying I used to tell girls that I was mixed, which is a bold-faced lie!
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm light skinned, and I used to lean on that because that's something a lot of black people pride themselves on, and it's weird.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of 'talking white,' a lot of people grew up around that, just the idea that if you speak with proper diction and come off as educated that it's not black and that it's actually anti-black and should be considered only something that white people would do.
- Constructs
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's always been a quiet conversation and joke that if you're not hard, if you're not from impoverished neighborhoods, if you're not certain constructs of a black stereotype, then you not black.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People don't want rap to be anything other than it is. But genres expand. My contributions, no matter how they sound, will always be rap, because they'll always be black.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, as a black man, I have a responsibility to have knowledge and have an opinion.
- Film
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very into film and strengthening what it means to be a rapper and to be a black dude from Chicago.
- Nov 07, 2020