B Quotes
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“BLACK ISN'T JUST A HUE IT'S A HUEMAN”
“black isn't beautiful and it isn't ugly - black is! It's not kinky hair and it's not straight hair - it just is.”
Source: The Women of Brewster Place
“Black jurors sit on juries every day and convict black people every day.”
“Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.”
“Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided . . . we have frozen our vision in figures that caricature, at best the complexity of our lives and leave the real artistic chore of interpretation unfinished.”
“Black life is not only about hardship, it is also about poetry, play, celebration, curiosity, tradition, and what some have referred to as “the beautiful struggle.” Where some see only a “ghetto,” we have often seen the “Black Metropolis” or our space where we share–across cities and regions–language, music, food, and a common history of resistance and struggle.”
“Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.”
Source: Conversations with Toni Morrison
“Black lives matter.”
“Black lives matter always, we never forgot, where we came from, we never forgot, what we been through, we never forgot, the roughness of our skin we never forgot, the sheddings of our blood, we never forgot, we been through hell & back but from today onwards never again & we will never forget!”
“Black Lives Matter is the ultimate divisive movement.”
“Black Lives Matter, Too"
Black Lives Matter doesn’t mean this fist, but it does mean resist
When oppression and injustice are not up for discussion
Insurrections and protections when wrongs aren’t corrected.
It means black is equal, inherits the same rights,
Liberties, protections, and the pursuit of happiness as whites”
Source: Black Lives, Lines, and Lyrics
“Black lives matter är inte en negerörelse - metoo är inte en kvinnorörelse - pride är inte en homosexuell folkrörelse - det är hela mänsklighetens rörelse - en rörelse för att accepteras som människor av människorna.”
“Black lives matter. White lives matter. Asian lives matter. Hispanic lives matter. That's anti-American and it's racist.”
“Black lives, of course, matter. I spent 50 years of my life fighting for civil rights and for dignity, but if you don't want me to be here, that's OK. I don't want to out-scream people.”
“Black love is black wealth”
“Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy”
“BLACK LOVE LIVES IN THE MIDDLE OF ALL THIS HATE
#HOPENATION”
“Black Mafia. If they don't understand that, they ain't gangsta. I just watched TV and Bill Parcells kissed two or three of them boys...it's a Mafia thing.”
“Black magic is not a myth. It is a totally unscientific and emotional form of magic, but it does get results — of an extremely temporary nature.”
“Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.”
Source: The Western Lands
“Black magic, the magic of the primeval chaos, blots out or transmogrifies the true form of things. At the stroke of twelve the princess must flee the banquet or risk discovery in the rags of a kitchen wench; coach reverts to pumpkin. Instability lies at the heart of the world. With uncanny foresight folklore has long toyed symbolically with what the nineteenth century was to proclaim a reality - namely, that form is an illusion of the time dimension, that the magic flight of the pursued hero or heroine through frogskin and wolf coat has been, and will continue to be, the flight of all men.”
Source: The Star Thrower
“Black makes your life so much simpler. Everything matches black, especially black.”
“Black males who refuse categorization are rare, for the price of visibility in the contemporary world of white supremacy is that black identity be defined in relation to the stereotype whether by embodying it or seeking to be other than it…Negative stereotypes about the nature of black masculinity continue to overdetermine the identities black males are allowed to fashion for themselves.”
Source: We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity
“Black man cleans the streets but mustn't walk freely on the pavement; Black man must build houses for the white man but cannot live in them; Black man cooks the white man's food but eats what is left over. Don't listen to anyone bluff you and say Black and white are brothers.”
“Black Market, like a lot of teams, is a family for me. Just guys that I grew up with that I trust and would do anything for.”
“Black Mask is new money. He's rich. He's very, very powerful. He's made it. He's known for being brutal and sadistic. And particularly at this point in the Arkham franchise he has enormous resources. He is the number one gang leader in Gotham. And has easily the most power in the city.”
“Black men - one might be the president. Well, America's in too much trouble - I don't want that job now.”
“Black men and women who refuse to live under oppression are dangerous to white society because they become symbols of hope to their brothers and sisters, inspiring them to follow their example.”
Source: Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'”
“Black men had fewer opportunities to become wealthy and were specifically encourages, often by the US government, to look to marriage, rather than wealth, as a source of social status. The government hoped that by linking social status to black men's role as husbands and providers it could minimize its own economic responsibility for the newly free African Americans - especially for black women and children.”
Source: You'll Do: A History of Marrying for Reasons Other Than Love
“Black men in ghetto communities (and many who live in middle class communities) are targeted by the police at early ages, often before they're old enough to vote. They're routinely stopped, frisked, and searched without reasonable suspicion or probable cause.”
“Black men loving black men is THE revolutionary act.”
“Black men of Carthage, Ethiopia, of Timbuktu and Alexandria gave the likes of civilization to this world”
“Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.”
“Black men of our day were never told, The sky's the limit. ... We could aspire to Joe Louis but never Henry Ford.”
Source: Little Green: An Easy Rawlins Mystery
“Black men should be with Black women. And they should love and honor them.”
“Black men struggle with masculinity so much. The idea that we must always be strong really presses us all down - it keeps us from growing.”
“Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of poverty, despair, and hopelessness.”
“Black men, Indian men, and gay men have all have something in common: They do not provide an economic security blanket for women.”
Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex
“Black men, you were once great; you shall be great again. Lose not courage or faith, go forward.”
Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey
“Black metal - especially from the '90s - contains a certain production aesthetic that keys you into the emotive content. You feel it more intimately than, say, technical death metal, where everything is produced super-precisely.”
“Black metal has entered a new age, and this age is one of violent rebellion.”
Source: Black Metal Rainbows
“Black metal seemed way deeper than anything else, and I kind of got addicted to it.”
“Black milk of daybreak we drink it at sundown.”
Source: Paul Celan: poems
“Black moleskin gloves covered his hands; the right because it was burned, the left because a man felt half a fool wearing only one glove.”
Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows
“Black Moms create magic, so that makes me magical.”
“Black Mona Lisa
My umi's face is
the most beautiful in the world
Skin
like sleeping in on snow days
beneath thick blankets
black
Smile
like an eighty-degree
summer day in April
bright
Eyes
like long subway rides
looking out windows watching
nothing and everything go by in the dark
and letting my thoughts swim
deep”
Source: Punching the Air
“Black money is so much a part of our white economy, a tumour in the centre of the brain - try to remove it and you kill the patient.”
“Black Mountain had done that. A faceless entity, imaginary but powerful—it was no one and everyone. It had ripped through his life quickly and thoroughly. The company forced DJ to run without any thought of direction other than away. And there was no going back.”
Source: Lost Helix
“Black movies don't have real names, they have names like Barbershop. That's not a name, that's just a location.”