Quotes with purple-black

Quotes 301 till 318 of 318.

  • Bert McCracken Whether the color of your skin is black, white, yellow, brown or purple -- the extent of this tragedy is so incredibly devastating that we had to do something.
    Bert McCracken
    American singer (1982 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. God paints in many colors; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Nikki Giovanni White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
    Nikki Giovanni
    American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator (1943 - )
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  • Benjamin Watson White people think one thing and black people think another thing about the same event. And we automatically, before we really know what happened, kind of pick our sides.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Bram Stoker Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Alice Walker Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Malcolm X Yes, I'm an extremist. The Black race here in North America is in extremely bad condition. You show me a Black man who isn't an extremist and I'll show you one who needs psychiatric attention.
    The Autobiography of Malcolm X (2015)
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Bernie Sanders Yes, we become stronger when black and whites, Latino, Asian American, Native American, when all of us stand together.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Alan Cohen You are not a black hole that needs to be filled; you are a light that needs to be shined.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Cab Calloway You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What - doesn't make a difference! Doesn't make a difference. I think he did a good job.
    Cab Calloway
    American jazz singer, dancer, bandleader and actor (1907 - 1994)
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  • Afrika Bambaataa You have to look at the fact that Hip Hop is under attack. It's not just Hip Hop but Black people, Latino people and all people are under attack for different things.
    Afrika Bambaataa
    American disc jockey, rapper, songwriter and producer (1957 - )
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  • Arnold Palmer You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
    Arnold Palmer
    American golf player (1929 - 2016)
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  • Aaron Sorkin You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • Ambrose Bierce An optimist is a proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Blair Underwood In terms of the black female audience, usually if you're true to that character but more so in your body of work if you've proven that you love your sisters and you proven you will come back home like in 42.4% they'll give you a pass when you jump ship. I hear it all the time.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Augustus Hare Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Optimist: A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
    The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Benjamin Todd Jealous There's sort of a persistent misperception that talking about race is black folk's burden. Ultimately, only men can end sexism, and only white people can end racism.
    Benjamin Todd Jealous
    American civic leader and politician (1973 - )
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