Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Turow

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.

Patrick Carman

I wasn't really conscious about 'The 39 Clues' movie when I wrote 'The Black Circle.'

Maidie Norman

When I was young, I was rather attractive, and I thought that I would be a leading lady. I always thought of myself as a dramatic actress, but of course the opportunities for blacks weren't there at the time.

Ryan Coogler

We look at the African-American community, for a long time those of us who be considered strong - black men - for whatever reason, haven't done a good job of taking care of the weak. And we were doing things that render taking care of our youth and taking care of our women and our families impossible, when our lives are taken.

Scott Maddox

Well, Price, that was the school for black kids in Salisbury, when the white students went to Boyden. Hall Gym was their gym.

We have this exhibit of black collectibles, all donated, ... Soon we are going to change this out for an exhibit about the home itself.

Marian Edelman

We have a huge black middle class. But they have to remember to look back and bring others along.

We've got something just about every single day to commemorate Black History Month.

We're used to scorpions, black widows and rattlesnakes, ... Now we'll just get used to different wildlife.

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.

With the disappearance of the Ebony Student Association, the Black Student Union was a necessity.

Octavia Butler

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.

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.

Patrice Motsepe

People don't know that there were very successful black businessmen in the years of apartheid.

Patrice Motsepe

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.

We dust it regularly and it sits back in the corner when it is safe. It's just a black cast-iron stove.

My brother Jim and I saw our father go into the jails and pray with the inmates Sunday after Sunday. He prayed with both blacks and whites. If we ever repeated any slurs we heard on the playground, he'd tell us very softly, "I don't want to hear those words.

Most of the music we will be performing is by major black jazz musicians and composers.

Jane Badler

Most of my avant garde fashion is saved for my videos and for the stage. In real life, I tend towards a classy, black Goth look. I love black, a few sparkles, false eyelashes and boots. But when I perform, I love fantasy and props.

When the Black Camel comes for me, I'm not going to go kicking and screaming - I am, however, going to try to talk my way out of it. "No, no, you want the other Walter Slovotsky.

You knew everybody on the streets, both black and white.

Will it change again? Of course, it will. But black is a color everyone will go back to.

Judith Orloff

The archetype of the witch is very powerful, and each woman has that witch inside her in a powerful good sense, not in terms of black magic,

That was when we had our epiphany. We start with effects actually seen in the lab, which I think gives it more credibility than black holes.

That was part of it. I don't want to say Katie just had six points, because she was out there playing the game with a black eye, and she was everywhere doing what Katie does, but we really did struggle offensively.

That's the reason we're taking a lot of very heavy black plastic bags. That's not something I'm looking forward to.

Dick Thompson

That's because we looked at what happened in the 1918 pandemic. That caused the greatest number of deaths ever recorded from an infectious disease in a single year, by far. More than the black plague, more than any other infectious disease,

Richard Sherman

I was on Memorial Bridge heading home when I saw the black smoke pouring out from the trees. I called 911 and headed toward the house. I thought a house was on fire. It was pure black.

I was one of the early converts. I was using a BlackBerry as I drove. It's a critical part of our infrastructure. Both the government and the private sector rely upon it as a communications device, and because of that, an injunction is not an appropriate remedy.

I was once considered one of the pre-eminent black conservatives in the past, but now I'm more of a black progressive and I'm in the right place,

Dambisa Moyo

I was born and raised in Zambia in 1969. At the time of my birth, blacks were not issued birth certificates, and that law only changed in 1973.

Maya Angelou

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.

Zadie Smith

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.