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“Most Muggles lived in a world defined by the limits of what you could do with cars and telephones. Even though Muggle physics explicitly permitted possibilities like molecular nanotechnology or the Penrose process for extracting energy from black holes, most people filed that away in the same section of their brain that stored fairy tales and history books, well away from their personal realities: Long ago and far away, ever so long ago.”

“Now I see why reading was illegal for black people during slavery. I discover that I think in words. The more words I know, the more things I can think about. My vocab and thoughts grow together like the stem and petals of a flower. Reading was illegal because if you limit someone's vocab, you limit their thoughts. They can't even think of freedom because they don't have the language to.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows I Can Together Reading Language Grows Black Flower Limits Slavery Illegal Black People Stem Petals

Author:M. K. Asante

“I'm wearing black leggings and a loose top festooned with a Menger sponge of empty pockets stitched out of smaller pockets and smaller still, almost down to the limits of visibility woven in freefall by hordes of tiny otaku spiders, I'm told, their genes programmed by an obsessive-compulsive sartorial topologist.”

Stills Black Limits Empty Tiny Pockets Genes Spiders Woven Obsessive Sponges Horde Visibility Leggings Obsessive Compulsive Otaku Wearing Black Empty Pockets

Book:Glasshouse

Source: Glasshouse

“In 302, the Roman emperor Diocletian commanded "there should be cheapness," declaring, "Unprincipled greed appears wherever our armies ... march. ... Our law shall fix a measure and a limit to this greed." The predictable result of Diocletian's food price controls were black markets, hunger and food confiscation by his soldiers. Despite the disastrous history of price controls, politicians never manage to resist tampering with prices -- that's not a flattering observation of their learning abilities.”

Should Law Black Ability Results Politician Limits Army Greed Soldier Hunger Despite Manage Observation March Predictable Emperor Flattering Declaring Cheapness Roman Emperor

Author:Walter E. Williams

“Black men of our day were never told, The sky's the limit. ... We could aspire to Joe Louis but never Henry Ford.”

Men Black Sky Limits Aspire Sky's The Limit

Book:Little Green: An Easy Rawlins Mystery

Source: Little Green: An Easy Rawlins Mystery

“Women know, and so do many men, that two or three children who are wanted, prepared for, reared amid love and stability, and educated to the limit of their ability will mean more for the future of the black and brown races from which they come than any number of neglected, hungry, ill-housed and ill-clothed youngsters. Pride in one's race, as will simple humanity, supports this view.”

Source: Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition

“I have the strangest time to get cast in anything. 'Ghost' was the same thing. Six months I had to wait for them to decide they had seen everybody possible. Why not? What limits me? I'm black? Oh, am I black?”

Waiting Black Months Limits Six Casts Ghost Why Not Six Months

Author:Whoopi Goldberg

“When you're white, the sky's the limit. When you're black, the limit's the sky.”

Black White Sky Limits Sky's The Limit

Author:Chris Rock

“I don't think I'm egotistical, and I know what my limits are: I'm a black guy who's probably losing his hair. But I'm happy to play roles that I'm given, and I'm happy to play roles that I write.”

Thinking Knows Writing Play Guy Given Black Roles Hair Limits Losing Egotistical Black Guys

Author:Noel Clarke

“Though the rampant racial injustices throughout the criminal justice system were offensive to me and to millions of other people, I've never drawn a tight circle around the black community to define the limits of my moral concern. But that narrative tends to get imposed on you, if you're an African-American activist.”

“We already know the limits of Einstein's theories. From the centers of black holes at the very beginning of the universe - we call these singularities - Einstein's equations fail. In fact, people have joked that's where God is dividing by zero.”

People Knows Facts Universe Black Failing Theory Limits Holes Zero Equations Dividing Singularity Black Hole

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Oh, pooh, you’re just like akri. No, Simmi, don’t be breathing fire around the flammable objects or small children. Except for that black plastic card that’s not really plastic. It some metal thing, but the Simi loves it cause it let her buy everything she want without limit. He never say no to Simi when she use it. Oh, hello, there, Fang. You okay? You looking kind of peaked or piqued or…? Oh, heck, the Simi can never keep those straight. (Simi)”

Want Kind Children Use Causes Black Fire Objects Limits Okay Cards Breathing Metals Plastic Hello Fangs Small Child Breathing Fire

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.”

Doe Language Black Violence Limits

Author:Toni Morrison

“Afro-Caribbean influences are in me as a creative being the same way Spanish influences were in Picasso's work. I think the notion of labels - "black dancer, black choreographer" -is a ploy to divide and conquer, and to limit.”

Thinking Way Black Creative Influence Limits Dance Notion Conquer Labels Dancer Divides Caribbean Choreographers Afros Divide And Conquer Ploy

Author:Garth Fagan