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“People wanna say that they're part Native American or mixed, or anything other than black. We're raised to believe that there's something better about not being fully black, something eccentric about it. I'm saying I used to tell girls that I was mixed, which is a bold-faced lie!”

People Believe Used Lying Girl Black Raised Native Native American Something Better Eccentric Tell A Girl

Author:Chance the Rapper

“It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller - writer, musician, filmmaker.”

World Stories Problem Happens Lying Black White This World Musician Folks Filmmaker Storyteller

Author:James McBride

“Though sands be black and bitter black the sea, Night lie before me and behind me night, And God within far Heaven refuse to light The consolation of the dawn for me,-- Between the shadowy burns of Heaven and Hell, It is enough love leaves my soul to dwell With memory.”

Soul Enough Light Lying Night Heaven Black Memories Behinds Hell Sea Refuse Bitter My Soul Dawn Sand Consolation Heaven And Hell Enough Love

Author:Madison Cawein

“You can't accuse the creator of The Boondocks, ... Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil and the government is lying about 9/11.”

Government Lying Jesus Black Devil Creator Boondocks

Author:Aaron McGruder

“A convincing demonstration of correctness being impossible as long as the mechanism is regarded as a black box, our only hope lies in not regarding the mechanism as a black box.”

Long Lying Black Impossible Boxes Mechanism Convincing Demonstration Correctness Black Boxes

Author:Edsger Dijkstra

“If fallacies come knocking at my door,I'd rather feed, and shelter full a score,Than hide behind the black portcullis, doubt,And run the risk of barring one Truth out.And if pretension for a time deceive,And prove me one too ready to believe,Far less my shame, than if by stubborn act,I brand as lie, some great colossal Fact.”

Source: Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)

“All lies, white or black, disgrace a gentleman, although I grant there is a difference: to say the least of it, it is a dangerous habit, for white lies are but the gentleman ushers to black ones.”

Lying Black Differences White Dangerous Habit Gentleman Grants Disgrace White Lie

Author:Frederick Marryat

“I worship nothing. Not a good lie nor a dark one. If nature is proof of God's amazing creation then I have truly seen the light, and the light is black. Nature is genius at its most cruel and savage. No benevolent God could have come up with such an outrage.”

Ifs Light Lying Black Dark Atheism Creation Genius Worship Come Up Proof Savages Outrage Benevolent Proof Of God Good Lies

Author:Gary Numan

“To tell a lie in cowardice, to tell a lie for gain, or to avoid deserved punishment--are all the blackest of black lies.”

Lying Black Gains Punishment Cowardice

Book:Children are people: how to understand and guide your children

Source: Children are people: how to understand and guide your children

“I'd like somebody to breed a male, genus homo, who could go and fetch a 12" x 8" black suède purse lying in the middle of a white bedspread and not come back looking baffled and saying he couldn't find it.”

Men Lying Black White Middle Males Purses Baffled Fetch

Book:...Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel

Source: ...Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel

“The philosophy of love and peace strangely overlooked who was in possession of the guns. There had been love and peace for some time on the continent of Africa because for all this time black men had been captivated by the doctrines of Christianity. It took them centuries to realize its contradictions. ... perhaps there was no greater crime as yet than all the lies Western civilization had told in the name of Jesus Christ.”

“First, you have stereotypes, and that will be the black drug dealer, the east Asian kung fu master, the Middle Eastern terrorist in 'True Lies.' Then you have stuff that takes place on culturally specific terrain, that engages with it, but actually subverts assumptions. 'Smashes' stereotypes. That's where I've come into the game.”

Firsts Lying Games Stuff Black Middle Masters Drug East Terrorist Assumption Stereotype Eastern Asian Dealer Terrain Kung Fu Drug Dealers True Lies

Author:Riz Ahmed

“We are each of us like our little blue planet, hung in black space, upheld by nothing but our mutual reassurances, our loving lies.”

Littles Lying Black Space Planets Blue Mutual Hung Reassurance Blue Planet

Book:Rabbit at Rest

Source: Rabbit at Rest