Quotes with purple-black

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  • James Baldwin The future is... black.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Branch Rickey The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.
    Branch Rickey
    American baseball player (1881 - )
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  • Emma Goldman The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Bell Hooks The institutionalization of Black Studies, Feminist Studies, all of these things, led to a sense that the struggle was over for a lot of people and that one did not have to continue the personal consciousness-raising and changing of one's viewpoint.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Ben Shapiro The Left despises Texas, with its stellar record of job growth; Texas, with its strong support for traditional marriage and the sanctity of life; Texas, the root of the conservative tree. Should the Left succeed in its attempt to turn Texas purple, America could turn permanently blue.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Bobbi Brown The Lilac Rose Collection isn't just about purple. It features dusty pinks and heather grays, which are more natural shades of purple and are perfect for creating a feminine smoky eye.
    Bobbi Brown
    American professional makeup artist, author and public speaker
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  • H. Rap Brown The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
    H. Rap Brown
    American activist (1943 - )
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  • Augustus William Hare The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impression it receivest oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Arthur Laffer The minimum wage is the black teenage unemployment act. It is the guaranteed way of holding the poor, the minorities and the disenfranchised out of the mainstream is if you price their original services too high.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Malcolm X The most disrespected person in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. The most neglected person in America is the black woman.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Ben Shapiro The Muslim world just doesn't believe that skin color is all that important. Obama may be half-black, but he's still all-Western, according to them. It doesn't matter whether you're black, white or green - if you're not a devotee of Muhammad, you don't matter.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Eldridge Cleaver The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.
    Soul on ice (1968)
    Eldridge Cleaver
    American afro-amerikan leader, writer (1935 - 1998)
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  • Bobby Fischer The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, black jack for example, and every time the dealer has the same starting hand you have the same starting hand. What's the point?
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Black Hawk The pathway to glory is rough, and many gloomy hours obscure it. May the Great Spirit shed light on yours, and that you may never experience the humiliation that the power of the American government has reduced me to, is the wish of him who, in his native forests, was once as proud as you.
    The Autobiography of Black Hawk (1833)
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  • James Baldwin The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Boris Vian The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.
    Boris Vian
    French writer, poet and engineer (1920 - 1959)
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  • H. P. Lovecraft The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
    H. P. Lovecraft
    American writer (1890 - 1937)
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  • Campbell Brown The protests and pain over the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown had me wondering if we can ever experience the world as others do. For no matter how disputed the circumstances of both cases, many people see what happened in black and white.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Paul Theroux The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the expatriate's career. He can either forget it, or capitalize on it. Most choose the latter.
    Paul Theroux
    American travel writer and novelist (1941 - )
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  • Alice Walker The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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