Quotes 2581 till 2600 of 20393.
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Bid me to weep, and I will weep, while I have eyes to see.
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Big companies have trouble with innovation. Innovation is about bad ideas, or ideas that look like bad ideas. That's the fundamental thing.
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Bills of rights give assurance to the individual of the preservation of his liberty. They do not define the liberty they promise.
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Birds themselves are so interesting and intelligent, and they give so many cues without being verbal, so they say such great things. Feathers are superior to fur, even. They're so beautiful, and nature uses such amazing colors.
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Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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Black is overrated. You'll never find it in my stores. Of course it's slimming, but it's just used too much, especially for men. One black suit by one designer, another one by another - they all look the same in the end. If I walk into a crowded hotel lobby and I'm wearing a black suit, I just look like everyone else.
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Black men and women who refuse to live under oppression are dangerous to white society because they become symbols of hope to their brothers and sisters, inspiring them to follow their example.
Revolutionary Suicide (2009) -
Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.
Assata: An Autobiography (1987) -
Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn't have each other you had nothing.
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Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 47 -
Blackpool's illuminations are nothing if not splendid, and they are not splendid.
Notes from a Small Island -
Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.
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Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.
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Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
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Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
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