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Farewell” is not the word that you would like to hear from your mother as you are being led to the dungeon… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I don't think the war is going to end, but the war is just going to change. So we talk about change… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
I slept in black tents, blue tents, skin tents, yurts of felt and windbreaks of thorns. One night, caught in a sandstorm… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
I just want to shed light, illuminate and turn the spotlight over to all of the black people who have been being… — Kelela Copy Share Image
I remember thinking all TV was black and white, but that was because we had a really old, broken TV. And then… — Ruby Rose Copy Share Image
I think every woman in the world has to have a short black dress. That's what I always wear if I'm really… — Alessandra Mastronardi Copy Share Image
That the language of the poetry of Jamaican music is rastafarian or biblical language cannot simply be put down to the colonizer… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
If I could take all my parts with me when I go somewhere / and not have to say to one of… — Pat Parker Copy Share Image
Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt and prejudice people; some are… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
In the very early stages of working in sports, I was sick of being referred to as "the Barbie doll" because I… — Charissa Thompson Copy Share Image
The American business man cannot consider his work done when he views the income balance in black at the end of an… — Colby Mitchell Chester Copy Share Image
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“The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallowed subcategory. He’s got esprit up to here. Right now, he is preparing to… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I have low self-esteem and I always have. Guys always cheated on me with women who were European-looking. You know, the long-hair… — Lil' Kim Copy Share Image
“Black is associated with power because all vibrational energies of all colors are drawn into one place, ready to be used. Wear… — Tae Yun Kim Copy Share Image
Horace, who had been trying to find out the meaning of Kurokuma for some time now, was pleased to hear the translation.… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
I would say this, I'll go back to those black ladies I was talking about who love them some Barack and love… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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Life had a way of wrecking her careful plans, again and again. Roulette was more predictable than life. Small wonder she was… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
I was black and blue for about two years, but it's paid off tremendously. You know, if you get enough whacks, your… — Lucy Lawless Copy Share Image
If I make a joke about black people or Asian people or whatever, and then an Asian comes up to me afterwards… — Brad Williams Copy Share Image
White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I feel like I missed my era, because I remember the time when black people uplifted each other and looked for the… — Michael Jai White Copy Share Image
We were land-based agrarian people from Africa. We were uprooted from Africa, and we spent 200 years developing our culture as black… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Someone could cut through the mess in our house and look at it like one might look at rings on a tree… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Caffeine gives me hope. Sometimes, when I brew my wicked strong Irish black tea just perfect, about halfway through the mug I… — John Vanderslice Copy Share Image
I've heard that I've gotten a lighter complexion, as if I've bleached my skin. I think that is so stupid and ludicrous.… — NeNe Leakes Copy Share Image
You couldn’t pay me a billion dollars to take marijuana. I don’t really like coke anymore. I’m scared of ecstasy. The one… — Courtney Love Copy Share Image
The minimum wage is the black teenage unemployment act. It is the guaranteed way of holding the poor, the minorities and the… — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
She's got those big black eyes with plenty shiny white in them that makes them shine like brand new money and she… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
I didn't think of myself as an outsider because of my race because... where I grew up I was the same race… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Jimi Hendrix came on TV on this documentary and it was this African-American soulful black guy, playing an electric guitar, which I'd… — Michael Kiwanuka Copy Share Image
As you know, Sunday at 11 o'clock is the most segregated hour in America. You have black churches; you have white churches;… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
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