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Black Quotes by Arthur Ashe
- I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of…
- Seven out of 10 black faces you see on television are athletes. The black athlete carries the image of the black community. He carries the…
- There were times when I asked myself whether I was being principled or simply a coward.... I was wrapped in the cocoon of tennis early…
- I would like to flood South Africa with black personages of all sorts of persuasions: writers, educators, businessmen, you name it. If you are black…
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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… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair. — Diane Ackerman
- When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery… — Teresa of Avila
- 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
- It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over… — Erykah Badu
- Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. — James A. Baldwin
- The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. — James A. Baldwin
- Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. — James A. Baldwin
- 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
- They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be… — Afrika Bambaataa