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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
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in the ministry for some time. All my family is immersed in a black church in Memphis.
- Bump
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have reached a state in life where I can buy a whole house full of chairs and can bump into them until they are black and blue.
- Headquarters
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After Nigeria, we are the second biggest black African nation. We are the headquarters of the African Union. We are the only African country that has never been colonized. This is perhaps the last surviving African civilization.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do know how life can go one way or another and that it's not all just black and white, and there are many different situations and twists and turns in life.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no question that I'm African-American. OK? I'm a black man. We're not going to escape that.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember one of them - it was a 1941 black Ford. As it went by very slow, a guy leaned out with a shotgun, keeping a bead on us all the time, and we just had to walk slowly and wait for him to kill us... They didn't kill us, but they didn't end it, either.
- Exploited
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- Nov 07, 2020
You discover that the education the Negro gets is designed to keep him subservient. The poor black man is exploited by whites and by educated Negroes, too.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like I come from a smaller off shoot of black people because I am mixed. People say I'm African American but that doesn't include the other half of me.
- Musicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.
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- Nov 07, 2020