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Quotes 121 till 140 of 318.

  • B. B. King I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Boris Becker If I go into a club now, all the blonde girls leave my corner and all the black girls come into my corner. It's as if I'm racist towards white girls!
    Boris Becker
    German tennis player (1967 - )
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  • Caity Lotz If Lady Gaga is like an orange Bugatti Veyron, then I am like a black 1970 Chevelle.
    Caity Lotz
    American actress, dancer and singer (1986 - )
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  • Al Sharpton If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Bobby Seale If they had not murdered Malcolm X, there probably never would have been a Black Panther Party.
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Brad Holland If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet.
    Brad Holland
    American basketball player (1956 - )
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  • Richard Nixon If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Barack Obama If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Carol Moseley Braun Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • Angela Davis In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Buchi Emecheta In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.
    Buchi Emecheta
    Nigerian-born British novelist (1944 - 2017)
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  • Bill Dedman In Atlanta, with a large African-American population, Sosa is often considered a black man. In Miami and Los Angeles, with larger Hispanic populations, he is a Latino man, and the black label is rejected as robbing Hispanics of a hero.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Audre Lorde In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Bell Hooks In general, the mass media tell us that black people are not loving, that our lives are so fraught with violence and aggression that we have no time to love.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Bill Condon In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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  • Bill Skarsgard In movies we tend make things black and white: you're either this, or you're that.
    Bill Skarsgard
    Swedish actor (1990 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield In my opinion, parsons are very like other men, neither the better nor the worse for wearing a black gown.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Bell Hooks In this culture, the phrase 'black woman' is not synonymous with 'tender,' or 'gentle.' It's as if those words couldn't possibly speak to the reality of black females.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Catherine Drinker Bowen In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.
    Catherine Drinker Bowen
    American writer
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