- Love
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black Lives Matter has been viral, and people are taking it, appropriating it, and using it however they see fit.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
We came in as organizers before creating the Black Lives Matter network and project, and we are still organizers, strategists, political thinkers, and philosophers, so we actually have a lot ideas and a lot of really thought out strategies.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of the concessions that leading Democrats seem willing to make - from cutting diversity visas to chipping away at family visas - would be made on the backs of black immigrants, people from Africa and the Caribbean who deserve these policies to remain intact as some of the few legal tools they have to immigrate to this country.
- Discrimination
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must create a committee to address the long-standing discrimination against black people in America.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we say 'Black Lives Matter,' we're not saying that any other life doesn't matter. That has never, ever been our message. Our message has always been from a place of love.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
We actually know that all lives do matter. And we believe it is so much so that we had to create Black Lives Matter.
- Disenfranchised
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know that there are people in our nation, black people, who are systematically being disenfranchised in a number of spheres in our lives.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
We created #BlackLivesMatter. We created a platform. We used our social media presence online in order to forward a conversation about what is taking place in black communities.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
To fully understand the black immigrant experience in the U.S., we must understand it not in contrast to the African-American experience, but central to it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
African-Americans and black immigrants share a resilience and a determination for a better life.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
As we look ahead to our very diverse future, BAJI plans to continue to be at the forefront, uniting black communities to attain racial, social, and economic justice for all.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many thought that the abolition of slavery, the end of Jim Crow, and the legislative progress of the Civil Rights Era, among other watershed moments, would have fundamentally done away with the racist structures that have long oppressed black people. However, we know that has been far from the case.
- Level
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anti-black racism operates at a society-wide level and colludes in a seamless web of policies, practices, and beliefs to oppress and disempower black communities.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Far from ending, systemic racism reinvents itself to conform to what is publically acceptable, leaving the quality of black life diminished and more permanently fixed with each passing decade.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've done a lot of comedy recently, so I would really like to explore something else. I am hankering after a really meaty, dramatic role... like Natalie Portman's part in Black Swan.'
- Boring
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard for me to speculate about what motivates somebody like Stephen Hawking or Elon Musk to talk so extensively about AI. I'd have to guess that talking about black holes gets boring after awhile - it's a slowly developing topic.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020