Black Quotes
6092 Black quotes by 3216 unique authors
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Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw…
— Spiro T. Agnew
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His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old…
— Stephen King
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Perhaps the problem is the seeming need that people have of making black-and-white cutoffs when it comes to certain mysterious phenomena, such as life and…
— Douglas Hofstadter
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I saw for the first time the earth's shape. I could easily see the shores of continents, islands, great rivers, folds of the terrain, large…
— Yuri Gagarin
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Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no information can be passed back…
— Terence McKenna
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Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with…
— Henry David Thoreau
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For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.
— Ernie Pyle
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There are no green thumbs or black thumbs. There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Gardeners are the ones who ruin after ruin get on with…
— Henry Mitchell
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When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their soul!
— Ted Grant
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You know, I'm really busted up over this and I'm very, very sorry to those people in the audience, the blacks, the Hispanics, whites -…
— Michael Richards
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I drive two black cars, I named em Malcolm X and Martin Luther.
— Drake
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Golf is a game where white men can dress up as black pimps and get away with it.
— Robin Williams
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Sleep is out... tired is the new black.
— Amy Poehler
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Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; But then begins a journey in my head…
— William Shakespeare
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Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's…
— Jesse Jackson
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Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich,…
— Kathleen Blanco
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Few of us will do the spectacular deeds of heroism that spread themselves across the pages of our newspapers in big black headlines. But we…
— Wilferd Peterson
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The fact that this chain of life existed [at volcanic vents on the seafloor] in the black cold of the deep sea and was utterly…
— Robert Ballard
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In his play depicting the Salem Witch Trials, the author illustrates profound psychological bullying. The ringleader of young girls suspected of unsavory conduct, frightens her…
— Arthur Miller
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