“God is a philosophical black hole-the point where reason breaks down.” ReasonPhilosophyGodBlackBreakPhilosophicalHolesBreaking DownBlack Hole Author:Kedar Joshi
“Only one ship is seeking us, a black-Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her backA huge and birdless silence. In her wakeNo waters breed or break.” BlackWaterSilenceBreakHugeSeekingShipsUnfamiliar Book:The Less Deceived Source: The Less Deceived
“The Mexican revolution was a break with the past to recover the past. We were trying to deny we had an Indian and a black and a Spanish past. The Mexican Revolution accepted all heritages. It allowed Mexico to be mestizo.” TryingPastBlackBreakRevolutionDenyAcceptedIndianHeritageMexicoMexicanOver The PastMexican Revolution Author:Carlos Fuentes
“A theory deeply etched in our law [is that] a free society prefers to punish the few who abuse the rights of free speech after they break the law rather than to throttle them and all others beforehand.” LawBlackJusticeBreakRightsTheorySpeechAbuseFree SpeechFree SocietyThrottle Author:Clarence Thomas
“We have forgotten love, and Sat lonely beside each other. We have eaten together, Lonely behind our plates, we Have hidden behind children, We have slept together in A lonely bed. Now my heart Turns toward you, awake at last, Penitent, lost in the last Loneliness. Speak to me. Talk To me. Break the black silence.” HeartChildrenTogetherLastsTurnsLostSpeakBlackBehindsSilenceBreakLonelinessMy HeartBedLonelyForgottenAwakeSatPlatesTalk To Me Author:Kenneth Rexroth
“I marvel at the many ways we, as black people, bend but do not break.” PeopleWayBlackBreakRacismBlack People Author:Kristin Hunter
“Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.” BlackBreakSlaveryWelfareBlack Family Author:Andrew Young
“So many people representing different sections of our community are taken down one way or another. The system was designed to break us down. You think it isn’t true? The three-strike rule is to break down a black man.” PeopleMenWayDifferentThreeBlackCommunityBreakTakenStrikesOne WaySectionsBreaking DownOur CommunityRepresentingThree Strikes Author:Snoop Dogg
“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.” PeopleWayWritingStoriesOrderBlackWonderBreakBrokenBlack People Author:Kristin Hunter
“In my opinion while lynchings were quite possibly the most heinous crimes ever witnessed in American history, they helped in bringing people together for a sole purpose. It was because of these lynchings that armed self-resistance was created. If white people knew black people were capable of fighting back then there was less of a chance that violence actually would break out.” PeopleIfsSelfTogetherPurposeFightingBlackChanceWhiteOpinionBreakViolenceCrimeCapableResistanceBlack PeopleSoleAmerican HistoryBreak OutLynchingFighting BackHeinous Crimes Author:Assata Shakur
“We know the road of lack of recognition, of people telling us that we can't headline a movie because black women don't translate overseas, that every time we try to break the glass ceiling, people say no, people push back. And it's everything that people don't see out there.” PeopleKnowsTryingBlackBreakGlassesRecognitionTranslateBlack WomenCeilingsHeadlinesGlass Ceiling Author:Viola Davis
“There is a linear way in which black comedians are expected to talk about race by all audiences - black people are like this, white people are like this - and it really is hard to break through that. I never was doing it that way.” PeopleWayHardBlackWhiteRaceBreakAudienceExpectedComedianBlack PeopleLinearBreak Through Author:W. Kamau Bell
“All the forms of popular music from jazz to hip-hop, to bebop, to soul [come from black innovation]. You talk about different dances from the catwalk, to the jitterbug, to the Charleston, to break dancing -\-\ all these are forms of black dancing...What would [life] be without a song, without a dance, and joy and laughter, and music.” DifferentSoulFormLife IsJoySongBlackBreakLaughterInnovationDancingJazzHip HopHipsHopsPopular MusicCharlestonCatwalkBebop Author:Michael Jackson
“Darkness, whether in mood or in night, is natural. So if we flow with the black bile of melancholia and endure the terrible darkness of depression, eventually we will break through into the light of joy. This is the Tao (the Way) of darkness or depression--this is the Mystery of its evolution.” IfsWayLightJoyNightBlackNaturalBreakDarknessMysteryEvolutionTerribleFlowEndureMoodTaoBreak Through Author:Arnold Mindell