- Gay
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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
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Looking back on my 50-year eclectic journey in research, I am grateful that it has gone as well as it has, although still not clever enough to open the black box of enzyme structure.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to see designers capitalize on a beauty that is not only white. I need them to stop acting like beautiful black and brown women do not exist.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfeld next to me.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not my place to say how Zoe Saldana perceives herself, and I can't say how anybody else perceives her, either. I see her as a black person of Hispanic origin, but I don't even know what that really means, because I don't know anything about race and Hispanic culture.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nina Simone sacrificed so much to be as bold as she was about being black and about being female in an era where that could have cost her life.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
In hindsight, I feel like I made the right decision to choose production that would get played on black radio.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were raised very colour blind. I had gone to school and to camp for so long with white people, I think I was like 15 years old before I realised I was black.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
People called me 'Iman the black model'. In my country, we're all black, so nobody called somebody else black. It was foreign to my ears.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either.
- Anthology
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2009, I edited, under the aegis of the Library of America, an anthology called 'Becoming Americans: Immigrants Tell Their Stories from Jamestown to Today.' It featured immigrants from different backgrounds, from black slaves like Phillis Wheatley to Yiddish-language speakers like Henry Roth.
- Black Americans
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- Nov 07, 2020
My kids are the reason I continue to strive for something better. They know - as kids who are Muslim, Somali, black Americans - that they've always been part of a struggle and that change isn't easy.
- Curry
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started my career, I started with black comics: Bruce Bruce, Mark Curry, Bill Bellamy. It takes all kinds of influences.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020