Quotes about black
black both everybody knew
You knew everybody on the streets, both black and white.
black bring class huge middle others remember
We have a huge black middle class. But they have to remember to look back and bring others along. Marian Edelman
black history single
We've got something just about every single day to commemorate Black History Month.
black widows
We're used to scorpions, black widows and rattlesnakes, ... Now we'll just get used to different wildlife.
black bottom rarely reported trying
We're still trying to get to the bottom of it. In these situations, it's rarely black and white, and what's first reported usually isn't what it is.
black necessity student union
With the disappearance of the Ebony Student Association, the Black Student Union was a necessity.
blacks suffering
While all Americans are suffering from this invasion, we blacks are suffering the most.
black corner dust regularly
We dust it regularly and it sits back in the corner when it is safe. It's just a black cast-iron stove.
black hump
We get the Hump - / Cameelious Hump - / The Hump that is black and blue! Rudyard Kipling
black exchange followed globe hands known largest major market mechanism money shown western
We followed the money around the globe and into the hands of major Colombian drug traffickers, ... We've shown the black market peso exchange for what it is -- the largest known drug-money laundering mechanism in the Western Hemisphere.
black born century decade female great grow grown known lady later poor time twentieth woman
The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair. Maya Angelou
black dad guy life lives millions people short throughout white
My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world. Zadie Smith
black brings flavor guys hands
Without a doubt, even when I play with Black Label, when we have different guys I play with, everyone always brings their own magic, their own flavor to the soup, hands down. Zakk Wylde
black music nation problems reflected seem
The problems of the nation that are reflected in black music don't seem to be changing. The music is going to evolve, and it will still be with us many years from now.
black eyes hard love sharp tenderness
Those black eyes I once so praisedNow are hard and sharp and cold;Where's the love that through them blazed?Where's the tenderness of old? William Story
black eyes hard love praised sharp tenderness
Those black eyes I once so praised Now are hard and sharp and cold; Where's the love that through them blazed? Where's the tenderness of old?
blacks forget
Never forget that two blacks do not make a white. George Bernard Shaw
black hip
Right now, if you're a black guy, it's not hip to play baseball. Tom Riley
black care men people poor rich white
Rich White Men Don't Care About Poor Black People George Carlin
black chickens comparing publicity
PETA operates by getting publicity any way they can. They're comparing chickens to black people? E. B. White
black church political theater uncommon
Political theater is not uncommon in the black church culture.
black died father mother nine wore year
Nine years ago, my mother died and my father wore black for a year and a half. Nicholas Sparks
black blessing brave cannot care fate guard heaven help holy leave nun saints slain until
Nay, said she, "the saints in Heaven cannot help me now until they take me to my rest. There is no place for me in the world beyond, and all my friends were slain on the day I was taken. Leave me, brave men, and let me care for myself. Already it lightens in the east, and black will be your fate if you are taken. Go, and may the blessing of one who was once a holy nun go with you and guard you from danger.
black floor second students third white
On the second floor were the white students, and the third floor was for black students,
black college education falling future income keeping kids latino maybe ready rest sixth terms year
Only the kids who get a postsecondary education are even keeping even in terms of income in their lives, and so forth. The rest are falling behind, year by year. Only about a twelfth of the Latino kids and maybe a sixth of the black kids are getting college degrees. The rest of them aren't getting ready for anything that's going to have much of a future in the American economy.
black center eating emission falling galaxy hole matter mysteries onto
One of the big mysteries about the black hole at the center of the galaxy is, 'Why don't we see emission from matter falling onto the black hole, or, rather, the black hole eating up its surroundings?' Andrea M. Ghez
black difficult experience feeling gave members personal research talked time
I talked to members of my family, and did some personal research that didn't really have anything to do with the time and place I was writing about, but that gave me a feeling of the experience of being black in a time and place where it was very difficult to be black. Octavia Butler
black human inevitably prove spent struggling time work worse
As a black and as a woman, I didn't think that I would really want to live in any of the eras before this, because I would inevitably be worse off. I would have spent more time struggling just to prove I was human than doing my work.
black people successful
People don't know that there were very successful black businessmen in the years of apartheid. Patrice Motsepe
black building business create creating devoid perception process system
The system of creating opportunities for those who were by law excluded, you've got to do that. But you mustn't create a perception that the process is devoid of competitiveness... devoid of building a world class, sustainable black business community.
black box discuss future information informing needs obtained order people risks
We can't just discuss future strategies, we need to discuss what needs to be done now about the risks and informing people about them. I think a black box is in order that could be removed if information is obtained that does not implicate the drugs.
black call dirt dust garden grandma granny neck sweat works
Granny beads are what they're called when a grandma works the garden all day - you always see them - they have a handkerchief around their neck with a lot of dust on them, and then the sweat will go down and make these black beads of sweat and dirt around their neck. And that's what they call granny beads. Randy Houser
blacks catholics equivalent grew jewish jews moved north rogers side suburb suffered unwelcome west
I grew up on the north side of Chicago, in West Rogers Park, an overwhelmingly Jewish neighborhood. When I was 13, my parents moved to Winnetka, Illinois, an upper class, WASPy suburb where Jews - as well as Blacks and Catholics - were unwelcome on many blocks. I suffered the spiritual equivalent of whiplash. Scott Turow