- Dress
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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
- Orange
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think of the prisoners on 'Orange Is the New Black,' a lot of times, as uplifting.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Orange Is the New Black' was my home show. I knew the set; I knew everyone there.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a certain feeling I developed as a young person for black people. Somehow they were able to get pleasure out of things that I couldn't see them enjoying. I heard them sing a lot, and I didn't hear white folks going down the cotton rows singing that much.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
By regulating marijuana, we can put black market drug dealers out of business and eliminate the rebellious allure that attracts young people.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the depths of the moor, the peat may be seen riven like floes of ice, and the rifts are sometimes twelve to fourteen feet deep, cut through black vegetable matter, the product of decay of plants through countless generations.
- Europe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black was not the universal hue of mourning in Europe. In Castile, white obtained on the death of its princes.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The influence of the Shaw Brothers films on my work has been profound. In addition to the richness of Asian culture, we at Wu-Tang were fascinated with the struggles between the oppressed Chinese villagers and the repressive Manchu authority and how it mirrored our own experiences growing up as black kids in America's inner cities.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being black in America - especially as I was growing up - the feeling of oppression, the feeling of being outcast, the feeling of not having a voice was part of my life.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020