Black Quote by Gwendolyn Brooks Download Open image “I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.” — Gwendolyn Brooks ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Black Emphasis Knows Racism White
I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality. — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast. — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
In some places you can find an extreme blackness used as a descriptive. I also take into account historical realities that some of this… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so; life's business being just the terrible choice. — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
“Only black people can use controversial racial terms such as “Negro.” — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
I felt that the moral side of 'Black and White' was slightly confused. That's why I want the world to be in turmoil. — Peter Molyneux Copy Share Image
White consciousness is deeply anti-black, and that's for progressives and conservatives. — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
The choice in politics isn't usually between black and white. It's between two horrible shades of gray. — Lord Thorneycroft Copy Share Image
I generally don't think most situations can be labeled as black or white. — Heath Ledger Copy Share Image
But when I fell in love with black, it contained all color. It wasn’t a negation of color. It was an acceptance. Because black… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share Image
Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words. — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon. — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
I've always thought of myself as a reporter. When people ask why I don't stop writing, I say, 'Look at what's happening in this… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
She was afraid to suggest to him that to most people, nothing "happens." That most people merely live from day to day until they… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything. — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them,… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction. — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers. — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
When you go to a club it's not about being black or white or heavy or thick. I'm shaking my ass because I want… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone twice your size who wants to pound you into the earth - it feels as if you're being injected with darkness. It's like black water as cold as ice settling in your body where your blood… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share
The term "black metal" has become a lot looser, or can include a larger range of sounds and extra-musical aesthetics, not just Satan and… — Colin Marston Copy Share Image
We have to build our own power. We have to win every single political office we can, where we have a majority of black people... The question for black people is not, when is the white man going to give us our rights, or when is he going to give us good education for our children, or when is he… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt - until recently... and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor,… — Gore Vidal Copy Share
Black music has always known, and not been afraid to acknowledge just how high the stakes of Black thought are. To summarize the final soliloquy of Clay, the protagonist in LeRoi Jones’ (aka Amiri Baraka’s) play Dutchman. You’d better be glad Charlie Parker could play him some horn and Bessie Smith could sing, because if they didn’t make music they… — Frank B. Wilderson III Copy Share
Hollywood is so fixated on keeping it that way because it's generating the buzz, but that representation isn't right. I definitely feel like it's getting better - it's not only for blacks, but for people that are of all different skin colors. It is very important that black independent films get seen. We need to start getting used to black… — John Boyega Copy Share
