Black Quotes
6092 quotes by 3416 authors
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I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.
— Hank Aaron
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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador attain liberty,…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods, most of which…
— Paul Auster
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My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.
— Diane Ackerman
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When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.
— Teresa of Avila
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
— Dan Aykroyd
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It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's…
— Erykah Badu
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
— James A. Baldwin
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
— James A. Baldwin
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Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.
— James A. Baldwin
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The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.
— James A. Baldwin
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They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be carried out in…
— Afrika Bambaataa
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Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?
— Tyra Banks
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Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies.
— Tyra Banks
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You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.
— Charles Barkley
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I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white.
— Charles Barkley
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But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people.
— Charles Barkley
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For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to…
— Edward Abbey
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The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a…
— Jean Baudrillard
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