Famous Quotes & Sayings

He (McKie) is not going to wave a magic wand and find a loose-head prop that's going to demolish the All Blacks or pull out a winger that will put Rokocoko to shame. That's not his role. There is no quick fix,

Today, kids think that information is too much for them. We're telling the story that for a black person to make money, they have to be doing something illegal.

What do you call a black man flying a plane? A pilot you racist.

We've been waiting for the school to bring someone in to represent black history and we got it first hand.

We support the black candidates because we're sure they're going to vote in the liberal interest.

History is not going to be kind to liberals. With their mindless programs, they've managed to do to Black Americans what slavery, Reconstruction, and rank racism found impossible: destroy their family and work ethic.

There are older people who can no longer do it, but they still want the homemade blackberry jelly and canned figs. So I make sure to have some for them,

Pat Riley

When he came to the Lakers, Bob McAdoo told me how much the game meant, how it changed everything, how it opened up the world for black kids in the South. I guess I never really thought of it that way, that we were such a big part of history.

When they reach their 30s, six of every 10 black men who did not go to high school are in prison.

I tried to get a tan but I’m black already,

He was kind of bundled up. He was wearing a black leather hat, a big black jacket and grey pants.

Dusty Baker

He wasn't all black. It was black and white, so it doesn't mean nothing.

Tana Umaga

He was instrumental in building the All Blacks tradition. We're pleased for the chance to pay our respects

I think we thought we were mentally prepared for everything that's come into this case. But to see that chain was bone-chilling. It made me think back to the slaves -- of slavery when you saw black men chained and brought over on ships.

Rosario Dawson

I think what's interesting about how it's done is that it's not black and white. I think you like Monty. I think he's a really good guy.

Anna Deavere Smith

I think a lot of L.A. is something like USC - this incredible white culture living in the midst of color, and no obvious reaction to it at all. I mean, they have guards at the gate at USC - guards at the gate of a major university! And the guards chase young black boys away - I've seen it, chasing 8-year-old boys.

I think it still brings a lot of the same lessons that it brought 20 years ago. It's a snapshot of the past. Colin Powell would not be Colin Powell were it not for the guys in World War II, young black men who went to the war and came back and got an education and fought for their civil rights. It's a mirror to the present.

It gets up the black marks, sweat, dirt, lint.

E. O. Wilson

It goes both ways. They know if they throw it in, we're not black holes. It will come back out.

It had darkened since I left, and now I could only see here and there the glistening of moisture upon the black walls, and far away down at the end of the shaft the gleam of the broken water. I shouted; but only the same half-human cry of the fall was borne back to my ears.

Liz Miller

It had been the black sheep of the household products companies for several years now, ... But they've really worked hard to get their cost structure in shape and get inventory under control, and they'd be a great beneficiary of a weakening dollar, which is what we've slowly been seeing here.

Louis Farrakhan

He had a very focused mission on the black people of America, the black people of the world, because our condition was so horrific from the years of slavery and injustice that we have experienced,

He has to expand the electorate, and that's a big hurdle. Blacks displaced by Katrina, these people are going to be horribly difficult to reach.

Marcel Desailly

He lost consciousness for 2 seconds, like he fell into a black hole. His eyes were wide open, but he had no idea where he was.

Chuck D.

He made the decision on who got the money. I take exception to you saying that all Mr. Black did was fill in the name. He made the decision.

Andre Braugher

For me the march was a labor - a labor of love - but I was busy handing out flyers for the National Association of Black Social Workers, so I really wasn't standing in the crowd listening and observing. I was busy.

E. O. Wilson

For us, to have her here for Black History Month, is just a real coup.

GNOME, n. In North-European mythology, a dwarfish imp inhabiting the interior parts of the earth and having special custody of mineral treasures. Bjorsen, who died in 1765, says gnomes were common enough in the southern parts of Sweden in his boyhood, and he frequently saw them scampering on the hills in the evening twilight. Ludwig Binkerhoof saw three as recently as 1792, in the Black Forest, and Sneddeker avers that in 1803 they drove a party of miners out of a Silesian mine. Basing our computations upon data supplied by these statements, we find that the gnomes were probably extinct as early as 1764.

If it had not been for black people, the government of the people, by the people and for the people would have perished from this earth.

Dana Torres

I get out of the pool after a workout and look on my BlackBerry to see if the nanny called and to make sure everything's okay. My child is always on my mind.

Larry Stevens

He was a pretty black-and-white guy when I hired him. I kept telling him things were not always black and white and he had to loosen up.

I wouldn't have gotten as far I have if it wasn't for Martin Luther King. I am not viewed as just a black woman anymore, but as a working member of my community who has rights.

Julie Powell

I graduated from college with a major in fiction writing, and then I spent years and years and years just writing and not ever finishing anything and really falling into the black hole of self-loathing.