“A good warrior, a seventh or eighth degree black-belt, will tell you there is no victory. It doesn't make you more powerful to win. It's just what you do. It's an expression of your personal power level.” WinningBlackLevelsPowerfulExpressionVictoryDegreesWarriorBeltsPersonal PowerBlack BeltGood Warrior Author:Frederick Lenz
“I'd been on a road trip right out of college, with a buddy of mine. It was uneventful. We didn't get laid. Although one time it was about 800 degrees and we were in Texas. We had shorts on and nothing else and somehow a motorcycle cop pulls up beside me and says, 'Come on, get on it, get on, go, go, go!' So I speeded up and it turns out we're in a huge state funeral. There are about 40 black Cadillacs in a row and then a green van called Mr Greenjeans, with two guys with no clothes in it.” TwoStatesGuyTurnsBlackMinesCollegeHugeDegreesClothesGreenTexasFuneralOne TimeCopVansBuddyMotorcycleShortsRoad TripGetting LaidCadillacsPull UpsTwo Guys Author:John Travolta
“The more advanced the teacher, the better for you. The fifth degree black belt is so expert that they will understand that you're a beginner and throw you perfectly so that no harm will befall you.” BlackTeacherDegreesHarmExpertsEnlightenedFifthBeltsBeginnersBlack Belt Author:Frederick Lenz
“The bravery of Stanley Kramer's 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' amounted to two Hollywood legends - Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy - telling the world that a black son-in-law is something they can live with, and so should you, especially if he looks like Sidney Poitier and has degrees.” IfsWorldShouldLooksTwoLawBlackSonDegreesHollywoodBraveryDinnerLegendsIn-lawsStanleyHepburnTracyKramerSon-in-law Author:Wesley Morris
“While I enjoy teaching people on the basic and intermediate levels to work them up to advanced levels, my real talent is for the advanced students. You could say that I'm like a ninth-degree black belt in martial arts.” PeopleArtRealEnjoyBlackLevelsTeachingTalentStudentsBuddhismDegreesMartial ArtsBeltsRamaBlack BeltReal Talent Author:Frederick Lenz
“I'm a 3rd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do and 2nd degree in karate, and I'm a licensed bodyguard.” BlackDegreesBeltsKarateBodyguardBlack Belt Author:Katheryn Winnick
“Like all passions, anger has degrees, ascending from slight vexation through deepening clouds to rage, and finally to fury, which is a black and horrible tempest. In its mid-region, where it is neither too little to be motive nor too furious to be ungovernable, it has usefulness. For all feeling is as fuel, and where there is none life has no fire, and then no flame of ascent.” LittlesFeelingsPassionBlackFireDegreesAngerCloudsRageHorribleFlamesMotiveFuelRegionsFuryUsefulnessFuriousTempestAscentVexationAscending Author:James Vila Blake
“I started doing martial arts when I was about 7, and I got my second degree black belt when I was 19. So I have my second degree black belt, but I've never used it and I had to stop when I got "Instant Star" because I couldn't train.” ArtUsedStarsBlackDegreesTrainInstantMartial ArtsBeltsBlack Belt Author:Laura Vandervoort
“Whatever success I have achieved, whatever positions of leadership I have held have depended less on Ivy League degrees or SAT scores or GPAs and have instead been due to that sense of connection and empathy, the special obligation I felt as a black man like you to help those who need it most, people who didn't have the opportunities that I had because there, but for the grace of God go I. I might have been in their shoes. I might have been in prison. I might have been unemployed. I might not have been able to support a family. And that motivates me.” PeopleMenNeedsHas BeensHelpingMightAbleOpportunityFeltBlackSupportGraceSpecialPositionLike YouEqualDegreesEmpathyConnectionsPrisonShoesDuesObligationLeagueSatScoreMight Have BeenEqual RightsGrace Of GodUnemployedIvyIvy LeagueSat ScoresGpa Author:Barack Obama
“There's some homophobia within black community, but there's some strong homophobia throughout the whole of American society as well, particularly throughout the South to a degree, whether white or black. And since many of us migrated from the South, that could be a strong connection along those lines.” WellsWholeStrongBlackCommunityLinesWhiteDegreesConnectionsSouthHomophobiaAmerican SocietyBlack CommunityStrong Connection Author:Otis Moss III
“I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree.” MenUsedBlackWalksCollegeDegreesCollege Degree Author:Jayson Blair
“I am more than a black guy. I am a person, I'm storyteller, I'm a son, I'm a friend, so I am all those things so it is frustrating to a degree to be limited by other people's perceptions of me but at the same time, it is true that I am a black guy and it's like I'm rooted in, but not bound by. That sort of mentality, that's the one that I hold to be true.” PeoplePersonsGuyBlackSonDegreesPerceptionBoundsBeing TrueMentalityRootedStorytellerFrustratingBlack Guys Author:Justin Simien
“You think it's hard for me when I go in the ring and fight? That's the least of my problems. I think about the five years that I did in prison. I think about the nine years on parole. Nothing - nothing! - can compare to that struggle. I'm telling you, from being an ex-convict with 30 convictions, a degree nowhere to be found and black? I'm done.” ThinkingYearsHardDoneProblemFightingFoundBlackStruggleFiveDegreesPrisonConvictionRingsNineCompareFive YearsExesNine YearsConvictsParole Author:Bernard Hopkins