- 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
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
A white manager loses his job and gets another job, he loses his job, he gets another job. Very few black managers can lose their job and get another job.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Monofilament is what you use to go fishing. The line on your fishing rod is probably going to be black. You get to the end of the line and you tie on this clear plastic, thin thread called monofilament.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a really simple wardrobe. I wear a low-scoop tee every day with a tux or leather jacket and tux pants or black jeans. That's pretty much it.
- Environment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a very bohemian environment in southern Sweden, so I was always, always, always in black jeans.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father had the most horrible racist rhetoric you ever heard, but he treated people all the same. I remember this rainstorm. A car broke down with these black people in it, and nobody would stop. My dad was a mechanic. He fixed the car for nothing. I remember looking at him when he got back in. He said, 'Well, they got those kids in the car.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't care if you're gay, black, Chinese, straight. That means nothing to me. It's all an illusion.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I had the gift of Jerry Seinfeld, of Bill Cosby, of Lewis Black, these instinctively brilliant comic minds, then you go that route! But you gotta know your limitations. I'm more of an actor, more of a process guy. I did Tom Snyder, just as Danny Aykroyd did on 'SNL.' I did it in the club.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was kind of a dark kid. I loved Halloween, and I loved vampires and the black and white old monster movies.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A black man - I say a black man, we got no corner on the market, but every day in some form or fashion you got to prove you're a man. But you want to keep the life-and-death situations down. I can get beat. But there's getting beat and there's getting stomped.
- Coloured
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know my destiny. I was born into animosity, bigotry and hatred. We had water for white folks, and water for coloured folks. White lines, black lines. I came from Beaufort in South Carolina, and it was tougher than Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
In interviews with dozens of black advisers, friends, donors and allies, few said they had ever heard Mr. Obama muse on the experience of being the first black president of the United States, a role in which every day he renders what was once extraordinary almost ordinary.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those close to Mr. Obama say he grows irritated at being misunderstood - not just by opponents who insinuate that he caters to African-Americans, but also by black lawmakers and intellectuals who fault him for not making his presidency an all-out assault on racial disparity.
- Pink
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- Nov 07, 2020