- Black Or White
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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
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's important to me for the world to see black men in different capacities - capacities in which they're probably not used to seeing them.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy challenging perspective - challenging ideas of what it means to be a black man.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm black, yeah, but I'm just an actor, so everything I do doesn't have to be color-specific or specific to history. But I got to a point where a lot of people wanted to offer me period pieces, like that's the only thing I could do.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my whole life, I've worn black tie three times. I can't tie the knot myself.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my whole life, I've worn black tie three times. I can't tie the knot myself. Once, at the premiere of the opera, I got to La Scala before Domenico, and I was hiding in the corner until he arrived, and I said, 'Quick, you have to tie my tie, please!' Otherwise, I'll wear a tuxedo jacket with jeans and my bling-bling cross.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read 'Scarlett' recently, and that was a killer comic book. The 'Black Widow' was pretty rockin'. There is a big list of killer chicks that are just rockin'.
- Talent
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- Nov 07, 2020
I walk into a room, there's one or two black women. There aren't that many because the pipeline of talent just isn't there.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was surprised by the attention and visibility on me as a black woman CEO. I look forward to the day when this is the norm and not the exception.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Less is more when you do a bright, bold lip. Just draw on black liner and some mascara and you're good to go!
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I visited an asylum to observe expressions of the mentally disturbed and to get my body language right for the blind girl's role. I visited the blind school, read the autobiography of Helen Keller, and watched a number of films from 'Scent of a Woman' to 'Anurag,' 'Fanaa' and 'Black.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020