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We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides. — Ignatius Loyola
I call the light and high aspects of my being spirit and the dark and heavy aspects soul. Soul is at home in the deep,… — Dalai Lama
In the printed page the only real things are the paper and the ink; the white spaces play the same part in aiding the eye… — John Burroughs
I do not admit... that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America, or the black people of Australia... by the… — Winston Churchill
There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried. — Toni Morrison
The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the moonlight, the winged gorgons, the… — Lawrence Durrell
Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war; and it… — Walt Whitman
I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness. — Ossie Davis
In matters of honesty, there are no shortcuts; no little white lies, or big black lies, only the simple, honest truth spoken in total candor...… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life. — Wassily Kandinsky
Black is not a color. — Edouard Manet
One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline. — William J. Clinton
Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead — Charles Dickens
If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black… — Malcolm X
The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest. Yet it is… — Milton Friedman
When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress? — Marilyn French
Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years. Whites enslaved… — Thomas Sowell
Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised… — Mark Twain
When one studies strongly radioactive substances special precautions must be taken if one wishes to be able to take delicate measurements. The various objects used… — Marie Curie
There is one experiment which I always like to try, because it proves something whichever way it goes. A solution of iodine in water is… — Wilder Dwight Bancroft
In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed… — Catherine Drinker Bowen
What a delight it is to think that you are quietly & philosophically at work in the pursuit of science... rather than fighting amongst the… — Michael Faraday
I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension seems as quick,… — Benjamin Franklin
The scheme, my dear Marqs. which you propose as a precedent, to encourage the emancipation of the black people of this Country from that state… — George Washington

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