“I, with millions of other Americans, have the same dream Martin Luther King Jr. had; when I wake up I wish some of the things I dreamt would be true. I wish that little black and white boys and girls would hold hands without being shocked at their nearness to each other and say in a natural way, "we have overcome.” WayLittlesDreamHandsWould BeGirlWishBlackNaturalWhiteBoysMillionsKingsOvercomingWake UpBeing TrueBlack PeopleBlack And WhiteShockedLutherBoy And GirlHolding HandsI Have A Dream SpeechAnti RacistBoy GirlBlack Boy Author:Maya Angelou
“When I die, I want to be buried in a long long-sleeve black Ralph Lauren dress and brown chunky boots. I want my hair styled like his models, long hair that flows. I also want natural makeup with a light pink lip.” WantLongLightDiesBlackNaturalHairModelsFlowDressesLipsBrownMakeupBuriedBootsSleevesLong HairLauren Author:Nadine Velazquez
“Living there [Horse Mesa] was like living in a natural cathedral. Waking up every morning, you walked outside and looked down at the blue lake, then up at the sandstone cliffs--those awe-inspiring layers of red and yellow rock shaped over the millennia, with dozens of black-streaked crevices that temporarily became waterfalls after rainstorms.” BlackNaturalMorningRocksRedHorseWake UpBlueAweLakesWakingYellowDozenLayersEvery MorningCliffsCathedralsWaterfallsAwe InspiringCreviceWaking Up Every MorningRainstormsAfter The RainRed And YellowSandstone Book:Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel Source: Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
“It was natural to see the struggle for dignity for black people in America as a sister struggle of the Jewish struggle. So growing up, it was always a part of my breakfast cereal to think of myself as someone who was part of a larger struggle.” PeopleThinkingAmericaBlackNaturalStruggleGrowing UpGrowingDignityBreakfastBlack PeopleCerealBreakfast Cereal Author:Eugene Jarecki
“Typically, historical black colleges and universities like Delaware State, attracted students who were raised in an environment where going to college wasn't the next natural step after high school.” StatesSchoolNextBlackNaturalStepsEnvironmentStudentsCollegeHigh SchoolHistoricalRaisedUniversityGoing To CollegeColleges And UniversitiesDelawareAfter High School Author:Michael N. Castle
“It's perversion. Don't you see what it is? It's not natural. To go to great expense for something you want, that's natural. To reach out to take it, that's human, that's natural. But to get your pleasure from not taking, from cheating yourself deliberately like my brother did today, from not getting, from not taking. Don't you see what a black thing that is for a man to do? How it is to hate yourself?” MenWantHumansTodayHateBlackNaturalPleasureBrotherGreedLustMy BrotherCheatingExpensesReach OutHate YouPerversionCheating Yourself Author:Abraham Polonsky
“If Martin Luther King, Roy Wilkins or any of these compromising Negros who say exactly what the white man wants to hear is interviewed anywhere in the country you don't get anybody to offset what they say. But whenever a black man stands up and says something that white people don't like then the first thing that man does is run around to try and find somebody to say something to offset what has just been said. This is natural but it is done.” PeopleIfsMenWantTryingFirstsDoeSaidCountryDoneRunningBlackNaturalWhiteKingsCompromiseWhite ManLuther Author:Malcolm X
“In the first two years of my career, there were a lot of restraints on what I could do. I couldn't wear certain colors of lipstick, like bright pink, dark pink or red; [my lips] had to be natural. Eventually, I stopped communicating with certain people at the label, and did exactly what I wanted to do. And that was to cut my hair, dye it black, change my clothes, change my sound. Really to just express myself.” PeopleYearsFirstsTwoWantedCertainSoundBlackNaturalDarkCareersCuttingColorHairClothesRedLipsCommunicateLabelsTwo YearsRestraintLipstickHair Dye Author:Rihanna
“My private tragedy, which cannot, and indeed should not, be anybody's concern, is that I had to abandon my natural idiom, my untrammeled, rich, and infinitely docile Russian tongue for a second-rate brand of English, devoid of any of those apparatuses–the baffling mirror, the black velvet backdrop, the implied associations and traditions–which the native illusionist, frac-tails flying, can magically use to transcend the heritage in his own way.” WayShouldUseBlackNaturalRichConcernTraditionTragedyMirrorsRateTongueFlyingBrandsNativeAbandonHeritageAssociationTailsVelvetImpliedIdiomSecond RateBackdropDocileIllusionists Book:The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated Source: The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated
“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