Black Quotes

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In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure… — Michael Behe
I'm like Johnny Cash. I only wear black. — Adele
I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody… — Halle Berry
What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's no reason I… — Halle Berry
My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote some short stories… — Annie Besant
Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the ages of eight and ten… — Sophie Ellis Bextor
I like bold colors but usually wear black. — Mayim Bialik
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. — Theodor Adorno
Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude. — Steven Biko
Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek… — Steven Biko
Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a… — Steven Biko
The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the… — Steven Biko
As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's… — Larry Bird
When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the best game. And these… — Larry Bird
Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white. — William Blake
I do consider myself part of black history. — Mary J. Blige
I used to think I was ugly. I thought I looked like a camel. A person who doesn't love themselves, they will see anything that… — Mary J. Blige
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. — Aesop
But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a… — W. E. B. Du Bois
I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism. — Lisa Bonet

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