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An old man turned ninety-eight, he won the lottery and died the next day. It's a black fly in your chardonnay, it's a death row pardon two minutes too late isn't it ironic... Don't you think? A traffic jam when you're already late, a no-smoking sign on your cigarette break, it's like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife, it's meeting the man of my dreams and then meeting his beautiful wife (Black Quotes)
For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of melba toast, carrots, and black coffee (Black Quotes)
Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off our hearses within the hour; tears will dry, hurt hearts close again, our graves grow level with the church yard, and although we are away, the world wags on. It does not miss us; and those who are near us, when the first strangeness of vacancy wears off, will not miss us much either (Black Quotes)
To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people (Black Quotes)
There are those who believe black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation (Black Quotes)
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men (Black Quotes)
They calls me yellow like yellow be my name. They calls me yellow like yellow be my name. But if yellow is a name why ain't black the same. Well, if I say hey black girl lord, she try to ruin my game (Black Quotes)
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men (Black Quotes)
It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower is to bloom (Black Quotes)
In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid (Black Quotes)
I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture (Black Quotes)
If black boxes survive air crashes, why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff? (Black Quotes)
I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free (Black Quotes)
It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years (Black Quotes)
I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science (Black Quotes)
Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men (Black Quotes)
I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes (Black Quotes)
There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people (Black Quotes)
I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about (Black Quotes)
The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impression it receivest oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones (Black Quotes)
It seems astonishing to be paid for indulging in pure pleasure. For me to go to Coburg is rather as if a trainspotter was sent for a few weeks to Swindon or a chocoholic asked on holiday by Green and Black (Black Quotes)
Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are guttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack, And leave your friends and go. Oh never fear, man, nought's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread there's nothing but the night (Black Quotes)
Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African Americans have made in a 30 year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another (Black Quotes)
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices (Black Quotes)
Everyday we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child - our own two eyes. All is a miracle (Black Quotes)
I feel like one of those seagulls covered in oil from a spill, drowning in a black tar of fear (Black Quotes)
Pictures... flashed on her in sudden color, too much color, shocking color, the color that leaps out of black when lightning strikes at night (Black Quotes)
No record mogul had created Black Sabbath, so no record mogul could tell Black Sabbath what to do (Black Quotes)
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare (Black Quotes)
I used to be ashamed And now I am proud. The world once was black And now it is bright. I used to walk head bent And now I stand up tall. I used to have dreams But now I have hope (Black Quotes)