- Diet
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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
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
Drag Race' is giving visibility to our community. It's on TV and you can see RuPaul, who is a black, queer, powerful figure who has run this empire for years, and I think that's an amazing thing.
- Fantasy
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the publishing sense, 'urban fantasy' does not mean 'black,' and that's pretty ironic, considering that it's a euphemism everywhere else. It would be great to get that back.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trajectory of a lot of black lives in the 20th century was people moving into cities. A lot of the issue with modern urban fantasy is that it's un-diverse, and that's crazy with what we know the history of cities here to be.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know what's good for me. I can't play black or gray. I can't be a villain or anything close to one. I have to play white.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up for a sense of power and prestige. That is a disservice. Magic is very colorful. Of this, I am sure.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes!
- Nov 07, 2020
The 'black rule' is that youth unemployment is, on average, double a country's unemployment rate.
- Bouncing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you remember back to some of the television we saw, Buzz and Neil on the Moon with Apollo 11. Black and white. They were bouncing around a lot. They were really bouncing on their tip toes. Quite fun to do.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Last year, when we were in Mobile, Al., covering Hurricane Ivan, we heard the stories of poor people, many of them black stranded downtown because they had no way out.
- Nov 07, 2020
My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So... you're black.'
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I asked him if he ever hung out with black guys in high school and he said, 'Well, no. They always had these angry looks on their faces. Who wouldn't look ticked off having to deal with nitwits like him?
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
- Nov 07, 2020
If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020