Black Quotes
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You can change the look of an outfit so easily by changing the kind of jewellery you wear. If you have a basic outfit on - a black sweater and skirt or a simple black dress - you can go from the office to a cocktail party at night just by changing your jewellery. It helps if you change your shoes as well. (Black Quotes)
For interiors, if you have a basic sofa, you can add fun throw pillows, and cool lighting to make the space more interesting. In fashion, you make a little black dress really amazing with jewelry, shoes and an incredible bag. If you have those clean, basic, pieces you can really mix things up with the accessories and make the space, or the outfit, uniquely your own. (Black Quotes)
My favourite outfit was this black lace dress that I found in a vintage shop in Williamsburg, New York. (Black Quotes)
One time I got dressed in all black, Rambo-style, and took a massive pair of bolt-cutters and nicked a military bike. (Black Quotes)
It wouldn’t have mattered to my mother if I married a black, was gay, lived in a commune or wore a dress. (Black Quotes)
I’m a real believer in dressing tone-on-tone. I’m not saying you need to dress black. Dress just one color so the colors are not breaking your silhouette. (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)
Golf is a game where white men can dress up as black pimps and get away with it (Black Quotes)
Instead of going to the gym, I dress in black - a lot more practical and much more fun (Black Quotes)
Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years’ worth of education. (Black Quotes)
That reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white black is a matter of concern. It raises questions about our ways of education and about the values that guide our conduct. (Black Quotes)
Before playing football, I didn’t fit in anywhere. My parents didn’t have a lot of money, which they spent on our education to send us to Catholic private school in Oakland, mostly black. The other kids had more money than I did. I started school early; I was young. So I’d come back to my hood and read. (Black Quotes)
Every single progressive education fad of the past thirty years has hurt poor black children (Black Quotes)
Malcolm X envisions a broad-based pluralistic united front, which is spearheaded by the Nation of Islam, but mobilizing integrationist organizations, non-political organizations, civic groups, all under the banner of building black empowerment, human dignity, economic development, political mobilization. (Black Quotes)
The parastatals are an important driver of the process of Black Economic Empowerment and they have been doing it, and will continue to do it. (Black Quotes)
In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids. (Black Quotes)
The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies, black studies, history, musicology, comparative literature, English, linguistics, and other disciplines. (Black Quotes)
Most of the black women who lived in the lower end of Vrededorp came from the countryside and were there to be near their menfolk who worked in the mines. They spoke neither English nor Afrikaans. (Black Quotes)
Black English is simpler than standard English in some ways; for example, it often gets by with just ‘be’ and drops ‘am,’ ‘is,’ and ‘are.’ That’s because black English arose when adult African slaves learned the language. (Black Quotes)
In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn’t get any money at first. They were all broke. (Black Quotes)
Black English is something which - it’s a natural system in itself. And even though it is a dialect of English, it can be very difficult for people who don’t speak it, or who haven’t been raised in it, to understand when it’s running by quickly, spoken in particular by young men colloquially to each other. So that really is an issue. (Black Quotes)
They chose me for Lawrence of Arabia because I spoke English, had black hair, black eyes and a moustache. It was all luck. (Black Quotes)
Somebody once told me, black people, in and of themselves, are cosmopolitan. There’s cosmopolitanism within the black experience. There’s an incredible amount. (Black Quotes)
My experience has to be funnelled through a black experience or a white experience, or it doesn’t exist, because that’s how we’re going to deal with the world. (Black Quotes)
I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than any teacher’s well-intentioned lecture on Martin Luther King did. (Black Quotes)
In 2016, the conversation of the black experience is so broad, and it’s very raw. I mean, c’mon, we have a black president. That’s a major thing, and there are so many other significant occurrences that have come from the 60s and 70s up to now. (Black Quotes)
Most writers stick to what they know. The black experience is our experience, so it’s not that challenging for us. That’s why sometimes you’ll see writers that start off telling black stories, but later branch out into other material. People say they sell out. No, they evolve as writers. (Black Quotes)
I wanted to write about the experiences of the poor and the black and the rural people of the South. (Black Quotes)
Let’s say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride. (Black Quotes)
Having a white parent undoubtedly makes for a different childhood experience than having two black parents. (Black Quotes)