Black Quotes
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Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions of masculinity (Black Quotes)
The physician knows that his little black bag can carry him only so far and that the body’s own healing system is the main resource (Black Quotes)
There are two kinds of science: The black science and the white science. The science of weapon production is the black one. Working in this category of science is a great betrayal to humanity! (Black Quotes)
Black women are going to have to take more leadership. I think we are prepared because we bring a tenaciousness with us. We do not fear losing friends, allies, or jobs (Black Quotes)
I marvel at the many ways we, as black people, bend but do not break in order to survive. This astonishes me, and what excites me I write about. Everyone of us is a wonder. Everyone of us has a story (Black Quotes)
For the first time in our history, every spectrum of black thought is in the same room on the same page with a cause bigger than our persons, bigger than our organizations, and the cause is to ease the suffering of the masses of our people (Black Quotes)
I always wear beige, black or white. For one thing I look good in them. For another, when I’m beside a star at a fitting, and she looks into the mirror, I don’t want to be competing in anyway (Black Quotes)
Black people watch more television than anybody else, which makes it legitimate to talk about television. Its anesthetizing effect has been quite real. But that concern isn’t new (Black Quotes)
Look at the piano. You’ll notice that there are white notes and black notes. Figure out the difference between them and you’ll be able to make whatever kind of music you want (Black Quotes)
Nothing is more powerful than the black church experience. A good choir and a good sermon in the black church, it’s pretty hard not to be move and be transported (Black Quotes)
America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system (Black Quotes)
As a black man, my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races and different colours (Black Quotes)
Do you know, it’s funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage (Black Quotes)
Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps (Black Quotes)
The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people (Black Quotes)
The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up (Black Quotes)
You know it’s going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black (Black Quotes)
In the early days, we just wore black onstage. Very bold, my dear. Then we introduced white, for variety, and it simply grew and grew (Black Quotes)
Actually I don’t remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs (Black Quotes)
To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light (Black Quotes)
I don’t see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think (Black Quotes)
I don’t mind being black. I’m black out loud. It’s more than the people that they are, it’s the condition that they represent (Black Quotes)
It’s possible and available to any artist to be himself or herself on their own terms, to be accepted and embraced by black people. You don’t have to be a thug to get love from black people (Black Quotes)
I am going to stop calling you a white man and I’m going to ask you to stop calling me a black man (Black Quotes)
I think it’s not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her (Black Quotes)
I’m so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer (Black Quotes)
Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed (Black Quotes)
Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere (Black Quotes)
This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary. The trees of the mind are black. The light is blue (Black Quotes)
Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony (Black Quotes)