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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.
- Nov 07, 2020
I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The working-class black Southern Christian culture I come from still nurtures me, and I mean directly, daily.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
In general, the mass media tell us that black people are not loving, that our lives are so fraught with violence and aggression that we have no time to love.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used to convince black viewers, and everyone else, of black inferiority.
- Black America
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal.
- Service
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can be standing in Barneys with my coat and purse and my selections, and some white woman will say, 'Can you get this in my size?' What she sees is a black woman, and her service button goes off.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't walk around wearing candy stuff all day or colorful stuff. It's like, I walk around wearing black.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Learning to cook in the 1990s, I thought 'proper olives' meant black. The benchmark was Kalamata from Greece: purple-black with an almost mushroomy depth of flavour. Other fine examples were tiny Coquilles from Nice and plump round Tanches from Nyons.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really feel all my adult life has been spent in that little black box. If a wonderful part on TV came along I would do it. But I don't want to do a recurring role. It would just be my luck that the thing would be successful. I'm old enough now and also secure enough financially that I really only want to do what I want to do.
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- Nov 07, 2020