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“I like having black hair. When I was really young, I wanted to be Asian - Asian hair is beautiful. I also wanted to look like the girl in George Michael's 'Father Figure' video.”

Looks Wanted Beautiful Young Girl Father Black Figures Hair Video Asian Father Figure Black Hair

Author:Pauley Perrette

“Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.”

World Giving Writing Heart Littles Light Black Figures Blow Shocking Prettiest Shocking Things

Book:Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells

Source: Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells

“I don't mean to sugarcoat the figure on restatements, but I think it is positive - it shows a healthy system. The general impression of the public is that accounting rules are black and white. They are often anything but that, and in many instances the changes in earnings came after new interpretations by the chief accountant of the SEC.”

Thinking Mean Shows Black White Figures Healthy Impression Instance Chiefs Interpretation Black And White Earning Accounting Accountants

Author:Steve Odland

“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.”

Real Life Is Black Vision Rich Our Lives Figures Artistic Complexity Interpretation Frozen Unfinished Ambiguous Chores Caricatures Kaleidoscope Black Lives

Author:Charles Bartlett Johnson

“Many [business] people focus on what is static, black and white. Yet great algorithms can be rewritten. A business process can be defined better. A business model can be copied. But the speed of execution is dynamic within you and can never be copied. When you have an idea, figure out the pieces you need quickly, go to market, believe in it, and continue to iterate.”

People Needs Believe Ideas Process Black White Focus Pieces Figures Models Speed Defined Execution Within You Black And White Static Algorithms Business Models

Author:Gurbaksh Chahal

“Joe Louis and I were the first modern national sports figures who were black... But neither of us could do national advertising because the South wouldn't buy it. That was the social stigma we lived under.”

Firsts Social Sports Black Modern Figures South Advertising Stigma

Author:Jesse Owens

“I jumped in the river, what did I see? Black-eyed angels swam with me A moon full of stars and astral cars And all the figures I used to see All my lovers were there with me All my past and futures And we all went to heaven in a little row boat There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt.”

Littles Past Used Heaven Stars Black Doubt Car Figures Lovers Angel Rivers Boat My Past My Lover Radiohead Row Boats

Author:Thom Yorke

“That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free.”

Thinking Years Firsts Persons Black Figures Prove Our Society First Person Congressman Melanin

Book:Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition

Source: Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition

“By 1940 the literacy figure for all states stood at 96 percent for whites. Eighty percent for blacks. Notice for all the disadvantages blacks labored under, four of five were still literate. Six decades later, at the end of the 20th century, the National Adult Literacy Survey and the National Assessment of Educational Progress say 40 percent of blacks and 17 percent of whites can't read at all. Put another way, black illiteracy doubled, white illiteracy quadrupled, despite the fact that we spend three or four times as much real money on schooling as we did 60 years ago.”

“I don't remember forms or faces now, but I know the girl was beautiful. I know she was; for in the bright moonlight nights, when I start from my sleep, and all is quiet about me, I see, standing still and motionless in one corner of this cell, a slight and wasted figure with long black hair, which streaming down her back, stirs with no earthly wind, and eyes that fix their gaze on me, and never wink or close.”

Source: The Pickwick Papers

“The beauty of being black in American society is that black has always been an inclusive definition. White has always been an exclusive definition. I think one of the challenges for white people is to figure out how to have a more inclusive picture of who their families are, of who they are.”

People Thinking Black Challenges White Figures Definitions Exclusive American Society

Author:Benjamin Jealous

“There are many Americans who regardless of the intelligence or the profound political persuasion of a figure will never vote for a black man. Not all of them are racists; some are skeptical, and some are suspicious.”

Men Political Black Figures Vote Profound Racist Persuasion Suspicious Skeptical

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“Look at the piano. You'll notice that there are white notes and black notes. Figure out the difference between them and you'll be able to make whatever kind of music you want.”

Want Looks Kind Able Black Differences White Figures Notes Piano Gershwin

Author:George Gershwin

“Black folks are judged by quantity, not quality. It's a decimal point or figure. How different is that from slavery? There's no moral code, it's just about successful business for America.”

Different America Black Quality Moral Successful Figures Slavery Folks Code Judged Quantity Successful Business Moral Code Decimals

Author:Chuck D

“I'm not ideological. I think sometimes when people are ideological, the world's a lot easier. Because it falls into either right or wrong, or black or white, or whatever. To me, I'm still trying to figure out a lot of things.”

People Thinking World Trying Stills Sometimes Fall Black White Figures Easier Ideological Black Or White

Author:John O. Brennan

“For me her image, the triptych, became a study of the weight the black male figure carries, given the fact that they are targeted by the police, and are constantly in danger of being misread in public spaces.”

Facts Given Black Space Study Figures Danger Weight Police Males Carrie Black Males

Author:Claudia Rankine

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