“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 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.” NeedsShouldHas BeensDoneJobsBlackPresidentLevelsMovedPresident Obama Author:Hank Aaron
“'Modern Warfare,' 'Black Ops,' these are all the next level of video games. The people are more detailed, the fighting is more exact, and I can't speak for every gamer out there, but I know when I play, I feel like I'm actually in the game. It's that intense.” PeopleKnowsFeelsI CanPlayFightingNextGamesSpeakBlackLevelsModernIntenseVideoWarfareGamerNext LevelModern Warfare Author:Kevin Garnett
“There were so few black men who were successful and who successfully conveyed black male fear - how America can make you feel crazy, and how America can create interesting levels of contradiction.” MenFeelsAmericaBlackInterestingLevelsSuccessfulCrazyMalesContradictionBlack Males Author:Hilton Als
“While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level it is often a claim- or arrogation- of power to stifle the autonomy of others.” IndividualSocialBlackLevelsClaimsNormAutonomyRationalism Author:Thomas Sowell
“When you expand the civil-rights struggle to the level of human rights, you can then take the case of the black man in this country before the nations in the UN. You can take it before the General Assembly. You can take Uncle Sam before a world court. But the only level you can do it on is the level of human rights. Civil rights keeps you under his restrictions, under his jurisdiction. Civil rights keeps you in his pocket.” MenWorldHumansCountryNationsBlackCan DoLevelsCasesStruggleRightsCourtHuman RightsCivil RightsPocketsUnclesYou Can Do ItRestrictionAssemblyJurisdictionUncle SamGeneral Assembly Author:Malcolm X
“With the advance of knowledge, therefore, prayer and sacrifice assume the leading place in religious ritual; and magic; which once ranked with them as a legitimate equal, is gradually relegated to the background and sinks to the level of a black art.” ArtBlackReligiousPrayerLevelsMagicSacrificeEqualAssumingBackgroundsRitualReligious RitualsBlack Art Author:James G. Frazer
“It is time to celebrate the New Black Americans - those who have sealed the Deal, who aren't beholden to liberal indulgence any more than they are to the disdain of the hard Right. It is time to praise blacks who are merely undeniable in their individuality and exemplary in their levels of achievement .” HardBlackLevelsDealsAchievementPraiseIndividualityCelebrateIndulgenceDisdainExemplary Author:John Ridley
“The Democratic power elite on some level feels delegitimized by its working-class, black and female constituencies. What it wants are the "legitimate" votes of suburban, white, middle-class, affluent males. Even liberal voters and organizations tend on some tacit level to accept the idea that they are not the "real" Americans the Democrats must pursue.” WantFeelsIdeasRealBlackWhiteLevelsAcceptingClassMiddleFemaleVoteOrganizationDemocraticDemocratMalesPursueMiddle ClassVotersElitesWorking ClassAffluentTacit Author:Ellen Willis
“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
“We love a world in which the people in the white hats get rewarded and the people in the black hats pay the price. And that I have to say doesn't happen very often, particularly in a very complex economy. We're in a time of panic where people have lost trust in what the banks are doing, what the investment firms are doing - lost trust beyond a level of reasonableness, to be honest. And, it's got to be stopped.” PeopleWorldHappensLostBlackWhiteLevelsPayEconomyHonestInvestmentComplexesBeing HonestFirmHatsPanicPay The PriceReasonablenessBlack HatsLost Trust Author:Rebecca M. Blank
“You mix the affluence of the white and the poverty of the black and you do not get a civilized society. Integration on an equal level is one thing. Mixing on an unequal level is another.” BlackWhiteLevelsPovertyOne ThingEqualRacismEqualityCivilizedIntegrationMixingAffluenceCivilized Society Author:Marya Mannes
“If we [black people] do not show up and support the march towards cinematic equality, the march towards being on a level at - we don't even have to be higher than whites, but to be viewed in the same common thread of this is a professional, these are stories that people are interested in, instead of being fed the same old BS dogma that's been fed and the studios have used.” PeopleIfsStoriesShowsUsedBlackLevelsCommonSupportHigherStudiosMarchFedsBlack PeopleDogmaThreadCinematicCommon Threads Author:Terrence Howard
“Steve Chandler and Duane Black present an approach to management that promises to lower your stress level, increase your happiness and allow everyone in your organization to be more creative and productive.” BlackLevelsCreativePromiseApproachOrganizationIncreaseStressManagementProductiveStress Levels Author:Rolf Dobelli
“When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.” WinningSportsBlackLosesWhiteLevelsWorking ItStakesBlack And WhiteWin Or LoseSports Movie Author:Carla Gugino
“I do believe that healing takes place on a number of different levels and that in fact black healing can be deepened by trying to heal across as well as within. But it could be that to call for black and Jewish healing without acknowledging the need for intra-black healing puts the cart before the horse.” NeedsTryingBelieveWellsDifferentFactsBlackLevelsNumbersHealingHorseHealCartsDifferent Levels Author:Cornel West
“A major boom in real stock prices in the US after Black Tuesday brought them halfway back to 1929 levels by 1930. This was followed by a second crash, another boom from 1932 to 1937, and a third crash. Speculative bubbles do not end like a short story, novel, or play. There is no final denouement that brings all the strands of a narrative into an impressive final conclusion. In the real world, we never know when the story is over.” KnowsWorldRealEndsPlayStoriesBlackLevelsNovelMajorsThirdsFinalsConclusionNarrativeReal WorldShort StoryBubblesCrashImpressiveHalfway1930sTuesdayStrandsStock PriceDenouement Author:Robert J. Shiller
“I've always said as a political scientist that "culture" is what we use when we can't explain things. I think it's more about accessibility. Part of the problem is that this is an expensive game [golf]. I know in a couple of places where there are black members, and they come from pretty much the same socioeconomic level that the white members come from.” ThinkingKnowsSaidUseProblemPoliticalCultureGamesBlackWhiteLevelsCoupleMembersScientistGolfExpensiveAccessibility Author:Condoleezza Rice
“It's not anything that is just perpetuated by White America or just perpetuated by Black America. It's just a cultural understanding that you're just not a part of the equation when it comes to sexuality and I think that people mistake your lack of opportunity with the level of your talent.” PeopleThinkingAmericaOpportunityUnderstandingBlackWhiteLevelsMistakeTalentSexualityEquationsBlack America Author:Viola Davis
“The internal sexism within womanhood is very predominant in Hollywood, because we all want to be successful. There's a plug to it: You all have to be skinny! You all have to be pretty! You all have to be likable, because that's the formula that works. On an executive level. On a power level. And it's not always the same working with black people, because of the internalized racism. The colorism.” PeopleWantBlackLevelsSuccessfulRacismHollywoodBeing SuccessfulInternalsExecutivesSexismFormulasBlack PeopleWomanhoodSkinnyPlugs Author:Viola Davis
“Whatever it takes to get the image to reach that level is what that photographer needs to do. And for me, I just have such a love of the tactile and sensuous quality of a black and white silver gelatin print.” NeedsBlackWhiteLevelsQualityPhotographyPhotographerSilverPrintBlack And WhiteWhatever It TakesSensuousTactileGelatin Author:John Sexton
“The black hole in democracy is integrity. The great unspoken is integrity. When integrity is not first and foremost, it's quite palpable but not visible. It's always there. Jazz highlights it because musicians and jazz always represented a high level of integrity.” FirstsBlackLevelsDemocracyIntegrityMusicianJazzHolesVisibleUnspokenHighlightsHigh LevelBlack Hole Author:Wynton Marsalis
“You can have a wrestling idea, but you need to have these momentum-shifting moves. We had the Hulkamania movement, then it shifted to the beer-drinking, Stone Cold era, we reinvented the business with growing the black beard and becoming the bad guy, what's that next level.” NeedsIdeasMovingGuyNextBlackLevelsGrowingMovementColdBecomingStonesDrinkingErasBeerWrestlingBad GuysShiftingMomentumBeardNext LevelBeer DrinkingStone Cold Author:Hulk Hogan
“If, with the nation watching, three black women at three different levels can't get justice... for this community, you tell me where you're going to get it in our country.” IfsDifferentCountryThreeNationsBlackCommunityJusticeLevelsOur CountryBlack WomenDifferent Levels Author:Stephanie Rawlings-Blake