Quotes with purple-black

Quotes 101 till 120 of 318.

  • Ernest Hemingway I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Al Sharpton I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Avi Arad I love Daredevil. I thought it was enjoyable. Okay? There were critical issues with it, and that's why I wear black, some people wear red - we are entitled to our opinions.
    Avi Arad
    Israeli-American businessman (1948 - )
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  • Stokely Carmichael I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
    Stokely Carmichael
    American activist (1941 - 1998)
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  • Bruce Springsteen I played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, firemen's fairs, policemen's balls, in front of supermarkets, bar mitzvahs, weddings, drive-in theaters. I'd seen it all before I ever walked into a recording studio.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Michael Jordan I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.
    Michael Jordan
    American basketball player and businessman (1984 - )
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  • Audre Lorde I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Jonathan Swift I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Henry Miller I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Shirley Temple Black I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I struggle immensely with celebrities of all kinds. I get clammy hands and turn a little purple.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Alice Walker I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Bill Cosby I wasn't always black... There was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Adele I'm like Johnny Cash. I only wear black.
    Adele
    English singer-songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Bruce Oldfield I'm not that interested in fashion... When someone says that lime-green is the new black for this season, you just want to tell them to get a life.
    Bruce Oldfield
    British fashion designer (1950 - )
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  • Bell Hooks I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • B. B. King I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
    Pierre-Auguste Renoir
    French painter (1841 - 1919)
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  • Ben Saunders I've diced with death the most cycling around London. Black cabs are far more dangerous than polar bears.
    Ben Saunders
    British explorer
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  • Becki Newton I've managed to get some beautiful bags. I have a great collection, and so does my mother. My favourite is a purple one by Gucci, which I take everywhere!
    Becki Newton
    American actress (1978 - )
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