- Cool Thing
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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
I think that for the most part, black people specifically have sort of been used as props in TV shows as a way to move story along or as a way to make things more entertaining.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been a person that has had fear of, like, 'Oh, I don't want to be the poster child for all black lesbian women.' I don't know. I want to be someone in the public eye that they can be proud of.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a suspicious mulatto, which means I'm too black to be white and too white to be doing it right.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was 1989, and the word 'Muslim' wasn't even really used in Britain at the time; you were either black or Asian.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think that the black market's a new thing. It's always been a part of history, and it's been one of the ways that immigrants and disenfranchised people move into the middle class.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
General relativity predicts that time ends inside black holes because the gravitational collapse squeezes matter to infinite density.
- Ego
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not going to be labeled a black filmmaker. I am not here to just tell black stories. I'm here to tell all kinds of stories, musicals and dramas.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what gives me more pleasure: watching my story unfold or going in and watching a room full of black people talking for me and writing words for black people.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate white people writing for black people; it's so offensive. So we go out and look specifically for African-American voices.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's very important that we don't sound like militants. Often what we do is we give a comment, and because it comes across with passion, then we're 'angry black people.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the gift 'Precious' has given me. You really think you're telling a story about a fat black girl, and only fat black girls will understand it, and then you realize we're all Precious.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to make a black 'Dynasty.'
- Nov 07, 2020
The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.
- Camels
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- Nov 07, 2020