Black Quotes
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Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink (Black Quotes)
I think the number one thing black women and all black people should be paying attention to is our health (Black Quotes)
What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy (Black Quotes)
To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self determination (Black Quotes)
It is crucial for the future of the black liberation struggle that we remain ever mindful that ours is a shared struggle, that we are each other's fate (Black Quotes)
There is an element of play that is almost ritualistic in black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions, stress, and pain of constant exploitation and oppression (Black Quotes)
The bounds of a personality are not reproducible by a sharp black line, but... each of us flows imperceptibly into adjacent people and things (Black Quotes)
Fluidity means that our black identities are constantly changing as we respond to circumstances in our families and communities of origin, and as we interact with a wider world (Black Quotes)
Racism has always been a divisive force separating black men and white men, and sexism has been a force that unites the two groups (Black Quotes)
When Henry Ford said, the customer can have a car in any color as long as it's black, he was not joking (Black Quotes)
The club also had the custom of sending robed members to kidnap visiting celebrities and steal them away in a black coach with covered windows, all without saying a word (Black Quotes)
While the black coal rose jutting round them, and the props of wood stood like little pillars in the low, black, very dark temple (Black Quotes)
Americans see everything too simply - a good guy, a bad guy, does he have a white hat or a black hat? But it's the wrong question (Black Quotes)
The town does not exist except where one black haired tree slips up like a drowned woman into the hot sky (Black Quotes)
I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey (Black Quotes)
At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. and that's good (Black Quotes)
Soon fades the spell, soon comes the night; Say will it not be then the same, Whether we played the black or white, Whether we lost or won the game? (Black Quotes)
When I went to school, there were no Black philosophers, at least none that I was aware of, who were recognized by Western universities (Black Quotes)
Black men of our day were never told, The sky's the limit... We could aspire to Joe Louis but never Henry Ford (Black Quotes)
In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America (Black Quotes)
Sidda can't help herself. She just loves books. Loves the way they feel, the way they smell, loves the black letters marching across the white pages (Black Quotes)
Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded (Black Quotes)
In the final analysis the weakness of black power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man (Black Quotes)
We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours? (Black Quotes)
There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation - purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I always gone seeking it at the liar's door? (Black Quotes)
Another weird thing about funerals: Wear black but kill something as colorful as flowers to decorate (Black Quotes)
When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap (Black Quotes)
I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that (Black Quotes)
My intellectual achievement was retarded when I went to high school. I sort of sank into a black hole because I had to go to the high achieving, academic public high school (Black Quotes)
I, like most women, I dress for other women, I think. If I was going to dress for men, I think in general I would be just wearing, like, a fitted black T shirt and tight jeans every day (Black Quotes)