- 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
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very young at the time, and I mainly appreciated their vocal qualities, even though I was already living as they did - as black performers in a white world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people think that black makes rooms feel smaller, but it's the opposite.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the black community, Trump's history of racial discrimination is deeply embedded.
- Black Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anger in the black community towards Republicans is established and immutable.
- Nov 07, 2020
We've come a long way from the days of Jim Crow, and yes, we elected a black president, but racism lives.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like Black Thought is a name that has so much meaning and depth, not only to me but to my fans, that it's something that I wanted to hold onto a little bit tighter.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Something that is funny, that I use sometimes if I'm doing comedy, is the fact that I'm now often mistaken for the rapper Rick Ross. And I don't know that I've ever corrected anyone - like I've never said, 'No no, I'm not Rick Ross, I'm Black Thought from The Roots.'
- Nov 07, 2020
The difference between a Black Thought album and a Roots album is the texture, the instrumentation.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and they are pretty young; so given the concepts that the film was about a superhero, it was a black superhero, and it was a father and son type partnership.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't done a great deal of it but this was a chance to do more and bring it to that part of the business and even more so, but the fact that it was a black superhero was really the catalyst to me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love mayonnaise. Every birthday when I was a kid I'd go to Black Angus and just dip my burger in mayo.
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- Nov 07, 2020