- Me
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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
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm going to be a fashion icon in a minute. I'm not going to do it in a corny manner. I have a voice that speaks for a whole other market - not just black people, but high fashion urban people. I mix street wear with high fashion. It's never been seen before.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Harlem, I got all my black friends. But when I go downtown, I got black, white, Asian, Indian friends. There's no borders, no barriers.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
The minimum wage is the black teenage unemployment act. It is the guaranteed way of holding the poor, the minorities and the disenfranchised out of the mainstream is if you price their original services too high.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
My name is Arsenio. That's a very unique name for a black man. In Greek, it means Leroy.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like everyone else, I have my quirks. For one, I have to own only black cars and the registration has to have eights. It's not something I can explain, it's just there. Another obsession I have is smell. I have to smell good all the time.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 10 or 20 minutes I was somebody's mother were black magic; there is no adventure I would have traded them for.
- Pink
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd describe my look as girly-edgy. I like black nail polish and eyeliner, but I'll wear them with pink shoes.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to Brunel University and very much wanted to go on to do a PhD in management, but then my acting career started to take off. In those days when you switched on the box there were hardly any brown or black faces.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were previously. It use to be possible to go to the bar on the corner and hear music. It was available for a fifteen cent beer.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just feel Black women, we get slept on a lot and people don’t recognize our greatness in our curls and in chocolate skin.
- Orphan
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Orphan Black' tends to, for their auditions, shroud it in secrecy and change names.
- Gathered
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do not consider that to be wealth which is hoarded away, for how is it better than sand gathered from the nearest heap? Nor that which comes in from men who groan at their taxes: for the gold that is wrung from tears is of base alloy and black.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
I rolled the second car that I ever owned, a Toyota 4 Runner. This was winter in Colorado, two weeks before the 2002 Olympic trials. I was driving in the outside lane, and my rear tire caught some black ice, and we totally turned sideways to the point where we were heading right toward the median.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is important for me to help others because I was also helped by others before I became part of the Black Eyed Peas.
- Peas
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- Nov 07, 2020