Quotes with purple-black

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  • Andrew Johnson Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.
    Andrew Johnson
    American politician and 17th US president (1808 - 1875)
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  • Stephen Hawking So Einstein was wrong when he said, "God does not play dice." Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.
    The Nature of Space and Time (1996)
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon So one of the things that happened with integration in the South is they found that the black teachers were much more educated than the white teachers.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • Boris Kodjoe Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think that's wrong. I think we all need someone.
    Boris Kodjoe
    Austrian-American actor, producer (1973 - )
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  • Jean Paul Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Dame Edith Sitwell Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
    Dame Edith Sitwell
    British poet (1887 - 1964)
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  • Bram Stoker Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Angela Davis That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into a status that involves work in alternative economies and increasing numbers of people who are incarcerated.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Bill Buford The 'classic' pig is inspired by northern Italy. It is made up of meat and fat, rosemary and garlic, salt and lots of black pepper.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • George Bernard Shaw The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Alice Walker The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Bayard Taylor The aquilegia sprinkled on the rocks A scarlet rain; the yellow violet Sat in the chariot of its leaves, the phlox Held spikes of purple flame in meadows wet, And all the streams with vernal-scented reed Were fringed, and streaky bellow of miskodeed.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Benjamin Todd Jealous The black community has been the foundation of the progressive community in this country for a long time.
    Benjamin Todd Jealous
    American civic leader and politician (1973 - )
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  • Adam Clayton Powell The black man continues on his way. He plods wearily no longer - he is striding freedom road with the knowledge that if he hasn't got the world in a jug, at least he has the stopper in his hand.
    Adam Clayton Powell
    American politician and pastor (1908 - 1972)
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  • Bobby Seale The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses.
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Black Kettle The Cheyennes do not fight at all this side of the Arkansas, but north some young warriors were fired upon and then the fight began.
    Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970)
    Black Kettle
    Native Indian Cheyenne chief (1803 - 1868)
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  • Al Sharpton The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • James Baldwin The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Bobby Seale The FBI's Counter-Intelligence Program would work hand-in-hand with police departments, literally planning attacks on Black Panther Party offices throughout the United States of America. They did this over a period of time.
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Bobby Seale The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And what we had done is, we wanted to write a program that was straightforward to the people. We didn't want to give a long dissertation.
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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