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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
- Joke
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I've got a black joke, and I can't tell it in Oakland, then I shouldn't tell the joke anywhere else.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
- Colors
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- Nov 07, 2020
We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.
- Fierce
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce.
- Pictures
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My research has taught me many important lessons, but perhaps none more important than this: drug effects, like semesters, are predictable; police interactions with black people are not.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am certain that my white colleagues, when faced with an emergency situation, wouldn't think twice about calling the police. This, however, may not be the case for their black and Latino students.
- Diversity
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- Nov 07, 2020
It turns out that the term 'diversity' can be anything from black faculty to military veterans. Well, I am both, but have yet to be subjected to discrimination because I'm a veteran.
- Middle
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the only tenured black faculty in the sciences at Columbia, in the middle of Harlem.
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- Nov 07, 2020