“In Valdosta, Ga., during a mini-tour event, a player named James Black bet me $20 he could put five golf balls in his mouth and then close his mouth all the way. I tried it but could get only two in there.” WayTwoBlackFivePlayerEventsMouthsBallsGolfGolf Ball Author:Gary McCord
“Anytime you're with somebody, you become a reflection of that person. I believe the first five years of our relationship was me grooming her, getting her tough and getting her ready for all of this and how to deal with it. The last was just her being a strong Black woman who has her man's back.” MenYearsFirstsBelievePersonsLastsStrongI BelieveBlackDealsFiveReadyReflectionToughFive YearsOur RelationshipBlack WomenGrooming Author:Snoop Dogg
“In USA, a black man only have like five years we can exhibit maximum strength, and that's right now while you a teenager, while you still strong, while you still wanna lift weights, while you still wanna shoot back. 'Cause once you turn 30, it's like they take the heart and soul out of a man, out of a black man, in this country. And you don't wanna fight no more.” MenYearsHeartStillsSoulCountryTurnsFightingStrongCausesBlackFiveRight NowWeightTeenagerLiftsUsaFive YearsMaximumHeart And SoulExhibits Author:Tupac Shakur
“(Five) thinkers since Galileo, each informing his successor of what discoveries his own lifetime had seen achieved, might have passed the torch of science into our hands as we sit here in this room. Indeed, for the matter of that, an audience much smaller than the present one, an audience of some 5 or 6 score people, if each person in it could speak for his own generation, would carry us away to the black unknown of the human species, to days without a document or monument to tell their tale.” PeopleIfsHumansPersonsMatterHandsMightSpeakBlackRoomsAudienceFiveGenerationsDiscoveryLifetimeSpeciesTalesScoreThinkerDocumentsMonumentTorchesSuccessorsHuman SpeciesInforming Book:William James: Essays and Lectures Source: William James: Essays and Lectures
“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.” WayYearsStillsRealEndsStatesFactsThreeBlackWhiteFiveFourProgressCenturyFiguresSixPercentAdultsYears AgoEducationalDecadesDespite20th CenturyLiteracyAnother WayEightyDisadvantagesSchoolingSurveysAssessmentIlliteracyAll State Author:Vin Suprynowicz
“I was four or five, and my mother gave me a big black tablet, because I kept complaining that I was bored. She said, "Then write something. Then you can read it." In fact, I had just learned to read, so this was a thrilling kind of moment. The idea that I could write something - and then read it!” WritingKindSaidIdeasMomentsFactsBigsMotherBlackFiveFourComplainingBoredThrillingTablets Author:Joan Didion
“In college I was one of six males who auditioned for five male roles in a comedy play. I was the one rejected. At that moment I made up my mind never to place myself at the mercy of some pompous, goateed, black-turtleneck-shirted "should I yay him or nay him?" pantywaist ever again.” ShouldMindMadePlayMomentsBlackRolesFiveComedyCollegeSixMercyMalesThat MomentShould IRejectedPompousTurtlenecksYay Author:Emo Philips
“I decided to become an actor at five. I saw the most gorgeous woman that I had ever seen in my five years of living on television. She had on a long, red dress and her eyelashes looked like butterflies and I said, "Grandmamma, who is that?" She said, "Baby, that's Lola Falana." I said, "That's it right there. I want to be black, fabulous, and on TV."” WantYearsLongSaidActorsBlackFiveSawsTelevisionTvsBabyRedDecidedDressesFive YearsButterflyFabulousGorgeousLiving OnEyelashesLike A ButterflyGorgeous Women Author:Niecy Nash
“Fifty-five crystal spheres geared to God's crankshaft is my idea of a satisfying universe. I can't think of anything more trivial than quarks, quasars, big bangs and black holes.” ThinkingI CanIdeasBigsUniverseBlackFiveHolesFiftySatisfyingSpheresBangsCrystalsBlack HoleArcadiaQuarksQuasars Book:Tom Stoppard: Plays Source: Tom Stoppard: Plays
“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
“The environment is the most important, the most fundamental, civil-rights issue.... Four out of every five toxic-waste dumps in America is in a black neighborhood.” ImportantAmericaBlackIssuesEnvironmentFiveFourRightsWasteFundamentalsCivil RightsNeighborhoodToxicDumpToxic Waste Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“My dad also survived five divorces, and the women he married cleaned his ass out every time. I used to think my dad got divorced because he wanted new furniture. At one point in my life, all we had left was a wooden box, a 12 black-and-white TV, and a four-man rubber raft for a couch. And yet, I was the coolest kid in third grade. Mom, can we have a sleepover in Christopher Titus' house? They have a raft in the living room! We can row to breakfast in the morning. I can actually be Captain Crunch!” ThinkingMenI CanKidsWantedUsedHouseLeftBlackWhiteRoomsMorningFiveFourTvsMomDadMarriedThirdsMy DadBoxesDivorceAssGradesBreakfastBlack And WhiteCaptainsSurvivedFurnitureDivorcedCouchesLiving RoomRubberCrunchThird GradeSleepovers Author:Christopher Titus
“Obviously yeah, but our first album took us five years to put together, to get signed and to put it out, we had a lot of time to think about what we were doing. Black Sunday was like a whirl wind, we had to rush back to the studio after touring, but the last album we had a little longer, what like eight months?” ThinkingYearsFirstsLittlesTogetherLastsBlackFiveWindMonthsYeahAlbumsStudiosEightFive YearsSundayTouringTime To Think Author:B-Real