“Nice distinctions are troublesome. It is so much easier to say that a thing is black, than to discriminate the particular shade of brown, blue, or green, to which it really belongs. It is so much easier to make up your mind that your neighbour is good for nothing, than to enter into all the circumstances that would oblige you to modify that opinion.” MindBlackOpinionNiceParticularCircumstancesEasierBlueGreenDistinctionBrownShadeNeighbourTroublesomeMake Up Your Mind Book:Scenes of Clerical Life Source: Scenes of Clerical Life
“One of the big mistakes they made in Europe is that the circumstances in which you most frequently read or hear the word "race" or "racism" in Europe applies to Muslims. Which is not a race. It is a religion. You can convert to this. You cannot convert your race. I could become a Muslim. I could not become a Chinese person or a black person. So they constantly use that in Europe.” PersonsMadeUseBigsBlackRaceMistakeCircumstancesRacismEuropeChineseBig MistakeBlack Person Author:Fran Lebowitz
“No race has the last word on culture and on civilization. You do not know what the black man is capable of; you do not know what he is thinking and therefore you do not know what the oppressed and suppressed Negro, by virtue of his condition and circumstance, may give to the world as a surprise.” ThinkingKnowsMenWorldGivingMayLastsCultureBlackRaceVirtueConditionsCircumstancesCivilizationCapableSurpriseOppressedLast Words Author:Marcus Garvey
“[Michael] Brown's mom, Lesley McSpadden, is the latest African American mother whose tear-streaked face forces the nation to remember the name of yet another unarmed black teenager gunned down under questionable circumstances.” RealityRememberFacesMotherPoliticsNamesForceNationsBlackCommunityJusticeFamilyHistoryViolenceGenerationsTearsMomCircumstancesEqualEthicsHuman RightsIdeologyAfrican AmericanTeenagerBrownFree SpeechEqual RightsQuestionableUnarmed Author:Jonathan Capehart
“This is why the terrorists hate us. And it's not the glitter and it's not the pomp and circumstance. We've got black and white, we've got Hispanic and Asian, we got gay, straight, and Guttenberg, all working together for one common goal: to get the mirror ball. And the mirror ball doesn't care what color you are, and it doesn't care how rich your parents are, and it doesn't care what God you pray to. It's an even wooden floor, and may the best man or woman win. And I say God bless Dancing with the Stars, and God bless the USA.” MenMayCareTogetherHateWinningStarsParentGoalBlackWhiteCommonRichColorPrayingCircumstancesGayBallsMirrorsDancingTerroristUsaWorking TogetherBlessBlack And WhiteAsianGod BlessGlitterHispanicCommon GoalDancing With The Stars Author:Adam Carolla
“[Black people] come into the world exactly like you. It's just that there are circumstances in the culture that are dictated and put on our lives that we have to fight against.” PeopleWorldCultureFightingBlackOur LivesLike YouCircumstancesBlack People Author:Denzel Washington
“Segregation was ugly but we made something good out of something ugly. Since we were not welcome in other places run by White people, we were forced by circumstances to let our dollars circulate in our own communities. When you were young and I was young, there was a plethora of Black businesses. But when White folks said, "yes, come and spend your money with us," we ran downtown when we could only pass through downtown. Now downtown has our money.” PeopleRunningBlackCommunityCircumstancesUglyWelcomeRanSegregation Author:Louis Farrakhan
“There's no question here that every effort is made to earn as much money off tobacco as possible. At the same time, the same people who are doing everything they can to get every penny out of this product, are condemning its use, are bludgeoning and impugning its users, and denying them every day more and more places where they can legally use the product. In the process, they have been the architects of the black market. The people in charge of all this have themselves set the stage for black market circumstances to prosper and thrive.” PeopleBlackEffortCircumstancesThriveArchitectUsersTobacco Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Every time a militant Islamist terrorist shoots somebody up, what does Barack Obama do and the Democrats? They come out and they demand that there be no backlash against Muslims. So any time a police officer shoots a black suspect - without knowing why, without knowing the circumstances - why doesn't Obama stand up and warn against a backlash against cops? If we are to guard against backlash against Muslim shooters, where is the sameness?” BlackCircumstancesPoliceDemocratTerroristBarackCopPolice OfficerMilitantSamenessShooter Author:Rush Limbaugh
“You could easily play the guy as straight-up hood throughout the whole movie, the Imperial Courts, but writer and director Malik Vitthal envisioned a human being that has never been seen before in film: a black man in circumstances that he does not like, who is passionate - persistent - in turning it around.” MenFilmGuyBlackCircumstancesPassionatePersistentHood Author:John Boyega
“I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.” PeoplePersonsMadeMovingBlackMillionsCircumstancesUnusualRepresentationBlack Person Author:Sidney Poitier
“Fluidity means that our black identities are constantly changing as we respond to circumstances in our families and communities of origin, and as we interact with a wider world.” WorldMeanBlackCommunityIdentityCircumstancesOur FamilyFluidity Author:Bell Hooks