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“It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller - writer, musician, filmmaker.”

World Stories Problem Happens Lying Black White This World Musician Folks Filmmaker Storyteller

Author:James McBride

“Anything that could be conceived of that would separate black people from white people was devised and codified by someone in some state in the South. There were colored and white waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know.”

People Knows May States Waiting Black White Rooms Office Doctors South Stations Bus Black People Waiting Rooms

Author:Isabel Wilkerson

“It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there were even black and white Bibles to swear to tell the truth on in many parts of the South.”

People Play Together Black White South Telling The Truth Illegal Black People Black And White Swear Birmingham Checkers

Author:Isabel Wilkerson

“My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves.”

Long Black Dad My Dad Suits Sleeves Bathing Bathing Suits Turtlenecks

Author:Moon Unit Zappa

“Finally, please remember this. If you EVER need something that you can stand behind, something to help you to take on and deflect all of the hatred of this often cruel world, you will ALWAYS have Black Veil Brides.”

Ifs World Needs Helping Remember Black Behinds Please Hatred Veils Brides Cruel World Bvb Black Veil Brides

Author:Andy Biersack

“Why are drugs so profitable? Essentially, many argue, it’s because they are illegal. By making drugs a criminal enterprise, it creates an enormous black market economy where drugs fetch far greater prices than they would if legal.”

Ifs Black Economy Greater Drug Criminals Arguing Enormous Enterprise Illegal Profitable Market Economy Fetch

Author:James Morcan

“You weigh how much you should criticize the President because hes black.”

Should Black President Criticize

Author:Don Lemon

“Where some may see flat, static narratives, I see a spectrum of tonal gradations and realities. What I am creating is literally black portraiture with ballpoint pen ink. I'm looking for that in-between state in an individual where the overarching definition is lost. Skin as geography is the terrain I expand by emphasizing the specificity of blackness, where an individual’s subjectivity, various realities and experiences can be drawn onto the diverse topography of the epidermis. From there, the possibilities of portraying a fully-fledged person are endless.”

“Really, an historic night last night. You may have heard, Barack Obama will be the first black president of the United States of America. ... Obama is also the first Democrat to receive more than 50 percent of the vote since Jimmy Carter, the first senator to be elected since Jack Kennedy, the first Muslim to be ... I said too much.”

“The fact that women are very young in obtaining their civil rights and African-Americans are young in obtaining their civil rights, I think it's about time that we extend that to all Americans, whether straight, gay, purple, green, black, brown.”

Thinking Facts Young Black Rights Gay Green Civil Rights African American Brown Purple Obtaining

Author:Octavia Spencer

“What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?”

Ifs Men Suffering Father Black Rights Daughter Our Daughter

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“The anarchist is dressed all in black. In the dark you can only see his eyes. It dates from the 1930's. Porky Pig is a little boy. The children told me that he has a nephew now, Cicero. Do you remember, during the war, when Porky worked in a defense plant? He and Bugs Bunny. That was a good one too.”

Children Littles War Eye Remember Black Dark Boys Plant Defense His Eyes Pigs Bugs Anarchist Little Boys 1930s Bunnies Nephew

Book:The Crying of Lot 49

Source: The Crying of Lot 49

“The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador attain liberty, and inspired our forefathers to shed their blood for the United States' independence, cannot die. Today, this spirit of solidarity must and will empower all of us to rebuild Haiti.”

“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.”

Trying Black White Brain Economy Patient Remove Centre

Author:Rohinton Mistry

“Black is like a broken vessel, which is deprived of the capacity to contain anything.”

Black Broken Capacity Vessel Deprived

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?”

Ideas Values Black Born Taught Excellence Segregation

Author:Walter Dean Myers

“Our success in America will involve two circles: Black Nationalism and Islam–it will take BN [Black Nationalism] to make our people conscious of doing for self & then Islam will provide the spiritual guidance. BN [Black Nationalism] will link us to Africa and Islam will link us spiritually to Africa, Arabia & Asia.”

People Two Self America Spiritual Black Conscious Islam Circles Guidance Nationalism Links Asia Arabia Spiritual Guidance Black Nationalism

Author:Malcolm X

“From black and white to a sepia tone, some dreams come with a tint or in monochrome”

Dream Black White Tone Black And White Monochrome

Author:Shing02

“I never thought we'd ever have a black president. President Obama has done such a tremendous job He just has been unable to get what he needs to be moved at the level it should be moved.”

Needs Should Has Beens Done Jobs Black President Levels Moved President Obama

Author:Hank Aaron

“Speaking of stage freight. I was terrified! It was in NOLA at an all ages show. I was wearing Jeans, a Van Halen t-shirt, and a bandana on my neck. Once I gripped that microphone stand, I did not let go! I plugged my microphone into a guitar FX pedal. Then at the end of the a Black Sabbath song we were covering, I hit the guitar pedal. It was horrific!”

Ends Shows Age Song Black Stage Letting Go Guitar Shirts Necks Terrified Jeans T Shirt Vans Covering Sabbath Microphones Horrific Pedals Van Halen Black Sabbath

Author:Phil Anselmo

“Ive heard some people say that Im selling out, but Im not. If I hadnt done Black Radio, and just kept on doing just piano trio stuff, I wouldnt be honest with myself; Id be doing it to please other people. That would be selling out.”

People Ifs Done Would Be Stuff Black Heard Honest Please Radio Selling Being Honest Piano Selling Out Trios

Author:Robert Glasper

“White people's fear of Black people with guns will never cease to amaze me. Probably it's because they think about what they would do were they in our place. Especially the police, who have done so much dirt to Black people - their guilty conscience tells them to be afraid. When Black people seriously organize and take up arms to fight for our liberation, there will be a lot of white people who will drop dead from no other reason than their own guilt and fear.”

People Thinking Reason Done Fighting Black White Arms Gun Conscience Police Guilt Cease Guilty Liberation Black People Dirt Organize Guilty Conscience

Author:Assata Shakur

“I'm African American / I'm African / I'm black as the moon.”

Black Moon African American

Author:Kendrick Lamar

“I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue it is senseless.”

Art Artist Black Abstract Squares Abstract Art

Author:Jonas Mekas

“I wear black diamonds instead of regular ones because I’m not flashy, just flossssy.”

Black Diamond Flashy Black Diamonds

Author:Justin Bieber

“Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of what we dreamed and struggled and died for.”

Black Party Died Objectives Barack Panthers Black Panther Electoral Process Black Panther Party

Author:Bobby Seale

“Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.”

Black Kings Hero Drs Luther Dr Martin Luther King American Hero

Author:Morgan Freeman

“I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.”

Want Black Months American History Black History Black History Month Black History Month Inspirational African American History Black History Inspirational African American History Month Black Racism Ending Racism

Author:Morgan Freeman

“I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.”

Men Asks Black White Struggle Calling Racism White Man Black History Month Black Racism Ending Racism White Racism

Author:Morgan Freeman

“I don’t care if the cat is black or white, I just want it to kill the mice.”

Ifs Want Care Black White Cat Don't Care I Don't Care Mice Black Or White

Author:Deng Xiaoping

“Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were previously. It use to be possible to go to the bar on the corner and hear music. It was available for a fifteen cent beer.”

Use Black Performances Corners Available Bars Beer Cents Fifteen Commodity Live Performance Black Music Use To Be

Author:Archie Shepp

“It didn't matter as much because I'm a singer, not an actress, but my face is more acceptable in a way now than when I first came on the scene, because I'm part black.”

Way Firsts Matter Faces Black Scene Actresses Singers Acceptable

Author:Carly Simon

“All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of its necessary supports, in the same way that it includes chiaroscuro, proportion, and perspective.”

Way Ideas Names Black White Talking Support Color Painting Perspective Proportion Black And White Worth It Chiaroscuro

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone at night. I picked up two stones just in case, but I wasn't afraid of him. I felt a hunter's exhilaration and a brotherly feeling.”

Two Feelings Night House Felt Black Cases Bears Stones Hunters Exhilaration Vermont Brotherly

Author:Edward Hoagland

“I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn't get served at a restaurant two blocks from my high school. There were no job opportunities then... the only thing a black youth could aspire to be was a bellboy or a pullman or an elevator operator, or, maybe, a teacher. There was a time when all we had was black baseball.”

“Hip-hop has done more damage to black and brown people than racism in the last 10 years.”

People Years Done Lasts Black Racism Hip Hop Hips Damage Brown Hops Black People

Author:Geraldo Rivera

“Mother loathed the all-black B movies Hollywood made for the "colored" audience, where the stereotypes were broader and more offensive to her, and where the musical interludes did no justice to real talent, she said, but trivialized it.”

Made Said Real Mother Black Justice Audience Talent Hollywood Musical Offensive Stereotype All Black Real Talent

Book:The Hottest Water in Chicago: Notes of a Native Daughter

Source: The Hottest Water in Chicago: Notes of a Native Daughter

“Poetry is the plough that turns up time in such a way that the abyssal strata of time, its black earth, appear on the surface.”

Way Earth Turns Black Surface Poetry Is

Author:Osip Mandelstam

“I was always the only black in the movie theater, the only black in class, the only black in the library, the only black in the discotheque. I always felt observed and judged.”

Felt Black Class Theater Library Judged Movie Theater

Author:Concha Buika

“Whether the issue was black political power or nuclear power, Scott-Heron didn't mince words. His comeback record, "I'm New Here," doesn't mince words either, but instead of political battles, these songs suggest he's fighting personal ones.”

Political Song Fighting Black Issues Records Battle Nuclear Comeback Political Power Nuclear Power Herons

Author:Will Hermes

“All actors bring something unexpected to the role because they have to translate what's on the page and make a real character out of the black-and-white text that's there in the script.”

Real Character Actors Black White Roles Pages Scripts Unexpected Black And White Translate Real Character Something Unexpected

Author:Joe Johnston

“For me, as a child, I certainly thought that there were more black people in the world than white people.”

People World Children Black White Black People

Author:Keegan-Michael Key

“There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're black.”

Ifs Culture Black Blood Theory African American American Culture African American Culture

Author:Keegan-Michael Key

“Obama was the best thing for black nerds everywhere. Finally we had a role model. Before Obama, we basically had Urkel.”

Black Roles Models Best Things Role Models Nerd

Author:Jordan Peele

“You never want to be the whitest-sounding black guy in a room.”

Want Guy Black Rooms Black Guys

Author:Jordan Peele

“I always carry my classic black-and-white tux and custom-made George Esquivel saddle shoes.”

Made Black White Shoes Classic Customs Black And White Saddles

Author:Janelle Monae

“I've always been a tomboy. I've always liked to wear red, black, and white, and mostly pants.”

Black White Red Pants Black And White

Author:Janet Jackson

“With this blistering salvo of poetic gutshots Lawson has proven himself Bizarro’s true bard, its mad laureate. Switching from dark whimsy to retina-blast shock to political outrage without missing a beat, The Troublesome Amputee is a powerful collection of pitch-black verse.”

Political Black Dark Powerful Missing Beats Mad Collections Shock Poetic Verses Proven Outrage Blast Troublesome Switching Bards Whimsy Pitch Black Amputees

Author:Jeremy Robert Johnson

“People don’t realize that when you’re Latin, you’re so diverse. I am black. I am Latin. I am Spanish. You know? It’s a little bit of everything, and that’s beautiful. So, everybody, claim me. I’m fine with that!”

People Knows Littles Beautiful Bits Black Realizing Fine Little Bit Claims Latin Diverse

Author:Joan Smalls

“In 2013, there were 6,261 black homicide victims in the US — almost all killed by black civilians.”

Black Victim Civilians Homicide

Author:John Podhoretz

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