- Black And White
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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
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to switch up my cologne every two to three months, get a new wave - Dolce, Versace, Burberry. But Black Orchid, that joint stayed. That's the smell of beauty that stays on you... and girls love Tom Ford.
- Privilege
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- Nov 07, 2020
Atheism is like the highest level of white privilege. It's like having a black belt in white privilege.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am proud to be black man.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.
- Nov 07, 2020
I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people need nothing of the sort?
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Strange, is it not, my brothers, how often in America those great watchwords of human energy - 'Be strong!' 'Know thyself!' 'Hitch your wagon to a star!' - how often these die away into dim whispers when we face these seething millions of black men? And yet do they not belong to them? Are they not their heritage as well as yours?
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I'll just feel like wearing all black and being really chill, some days I like dressing boyish and then other days I wanna get really dressed up and be girlie. My wardrobe is all over the place.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Berlin Defence suited my strategy for the match. I had a defensive strategy - Actually, I had in my pocket some other sharper stuff to fall back on - but first I wanted to try the defensive strategy with Black and it worked so well.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think this is the most exciting time to be alive right now. We have a black president. There are transgender movies and media out there now. Gay characters are playing non-stereotypical versions of themselves. I feel like as a society, or in television at least, we're rising up. Even in society we're rising up.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020