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Back in those days, all us skinny white British kids were trying to look cool and sound black. And there was Hendrix, the ultimate in… — Ronnie Wood
I work in three shades of black. — Rei Kawakubo
Black is not sad. Bright colours are what depress me. They're so... empty. Black is poetic. How do you imagine a poet? In a bright… — Ann Demeulemeester
these hips have never been enslaved, they go where they want to go they do what they want to do. these hips are mighty hips.… — Lucille Clifton
But surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to spread the myth, the wicked lie, that the past is always… — Zadie Smith
To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live. — Dorothy West
As long as we are not ourselves, we will try to be what other people are. — Malidoma Patrice Some
Healing begins where the wound was made. — Alice Walker
When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do. — Toni Morrison
The writer cannot expect to be excused from the task of reeducation and regeneration that must be done. In fact, he should march right in… — Chinua Achebe
Miracles happen all the time. We're here, aren't we? — Marilyn Nelson
Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations. — Mae Jemison
Greatness can be captured in one word: lifestyle. Life is God's gift to you, style is what you make of it. — Mae Jemison
Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough. — Billie Holiday
All I know is I've tried my best. — Tiger Woods
What I have related is sufficient for establishing the main principle, namely, that the heat which disappears in the conversion of water into vapour, is… — Joseph Black
I realized now that militancy in the best sense of the word was the only answer where the black man was concerned, that any black… — Jesse Owens
It's hard to live your life in color, and tell the truth in black and white. — Gregg Allman
The only way I’d ever recruit a white quarterback to play for me is if his mom and daddy would both have to be black,… — Barry Switzer
Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music. — Rebecca West
It was a black and white only computer at the time, but it kept me fascinated. — Buffy Sainte-Marie
He boils milk with fresh ginger, a quarter of a vanilla bean, and tea that is so dark and fine-leaved that it looks like black… — Peter HÃ¸eg
I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality… — Abraham Lincoln
Many people take exception to me and say that I'm doing black magic and things they can't do at church. But I'm doing magic that… — Tony Andruzzi
And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonnet, they… — Abraham Lincoln

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