100 Quotes About Black

We all want to be the best version of ourselves. Whether that means getting a perfect body or a perfect job, we’re constantly striving for more and more out of life. But let’s face it; we aren’t always good enough to get there. Fortunately, we’ve compiled a collection of quotes about black people and how they see themselves and their place in the world Read more

From legendary figures like Martin Luther King and Maya Angelou to those you may not have heard of but should, these quotes about black people give us all the motivation we need to keep pushing for greatness.

Any customer can have a car painted any colour that...
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Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black. Henry Ford
She may be dressed in black from head to toe,...
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She may be dressed in black from head to toe, but she is still the brightest thing in my universe. Anthony T. Hincks
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A black hole holds all the colors of the universe. Anthony T. Hincks
Black as the night. Black as the depths. Black as...
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Black as the night. Black as the depths. Black as your heart. Where your hatred's at rest. Anthony T. Hincks
Even when your life is full of color, you still...
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Even when your life is full of color, you still need to be reminded that things come in black and white. Anthony T. Hincks
I don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand...
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I don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side. Bob Marley
I see black light (his last words)
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I see black light (his last words) Victor Hugo
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Western funerals: black hearses, and black horses, and fast-fading flowers. Why should black be the colour of death? Why not the colours of a sunset? Unknown
Think of what starlight And lamplight would lack Diamonds and...
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Think of what starlight And lamplight would lack Diamonds and fireflies If they couldn’t lean against Black.. .. Mary ONeill
Let my toes teach the shore how to feel a...
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Let my toes teach the shore how to feel a tranquil lifethrough the wetness of sands Let my heart latch the doorof blackness, as all my pain now blue sky understands Munia Khan
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I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas. Johnny Cash
The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable...
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The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go Stephen King
Black and white is mix of toughest simplicity and easiest...
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Black and white is mix of toughest simplicity and easiest complexity. Vikrmn
Black and white is salt and pepper of colors, for...
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Black and white is salt and pepper of colors, for life tastes bland without them. Vikrmn
Black and white is as if phoenix of colors has...
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Black and white is as if phoenix of colors has eloped into opacity. Vikrmn
Black and white is refuge of colors from their own...
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Black and white is refuge of colors from their own nullity. Vikrmn
Black and white seems a journey into space which is...
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Black and white seems a journey into space which is destined back to earth. Vikrmn
Black and white, oldest of the vintages, newest of the...
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Black and white, oldest of the vintages, newest of the last season. Vikrmn
Black and white, severally incomplete and at the same time...
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Black and white, severally incomplete and at the same time completely several. Vikrmn
Black and white, vacuum of cosmos vis-à-vis occupancy of...
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Black and white, vacuum of cosmos vis-à-vis occupancy of skies. Vikrmn
It is early, early morning. It's that time when it's...
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It is early, early morning. It's that time when it's still dark but you know the day is coming. Blue is bleeding through black. Stars are dying. Markus Zusak
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White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there has been a steady undercurrent of mutual admiration, an intermingling of cultures unheard of in any other American city, South or North; although there has prevailed a most joyous and fascinating interface, black anger and white fear has persisted, providing the ongoing, ostensibly integrated fete champetre with volatile and sometimes violent idiosyncrasies. Tom Robbins
If a Black mother says she had a dream, listen....
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If a Black mother says she had a dream, listen. They are psychic. Genereux Philip
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If the light we have is continually engulfed by the darkness in a way that makes the darkness even darker, maybe we should think about getting our light from Someone else before it gets a whole lot darker. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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You are not just white, but a rainbow of colors. You are not just black, but golden. You are not just a nationality, but a citizen of the world. You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong. You are not just rich or poor, but always wealthy in the mind and heart. You are not perfect, but flawed. You are flawed, but you are just. You may just be human, but you are also a magnificent reflection of God. Suzy Kassem
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WHAT IS TRUTH?Truth is not a thing Or a concept. It is as multidimensional In its meaning As it is in its reflection. It is both invisible And visible. It carries tons of weight, But can be carried. It is understood first through the spirit Before science, And felt in the heart, Before the mind. Truth is not always heard by reason, Because reason sometimes Ignores Truth.Always listen to your conscience. Your conscience is your heart And reason is your mind. Your mind is simply there to reason With your heart. But remember, Truth is in your heart, And only through your heart Can you connect to the light of God.He who is not motivated by his heart Will not see Truth, And he who thinks only with his mind Will be blind to Truth.He who does not think With his conscience, Does not stand by God, For the language of light Can only be decoded by the heart. He who reads and recites words of GodAlso does not stand by God —If he merely understands Words with his mind But not his heart. Truth is black and white, And the entire spectrum Of colors in-between. It can have many parts, But has a solid foundation. Truth lacks perfection, For it is the reflection of all, Yet its reflection as a whole, Is more beautiful Than the accumulated flaws Of the small. Truth is the only brand Worth breathing And believing. So stand for truth In everything you do, And only then Does your life have Meaning. Poetry by Suzy Kassem. Suzy Kassem
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I don't give a damn if there's any hope for them or not. But I know that I am not about to be bugged by any more white jokers who still can't figure out whether I'm human or not. If they don't know, baby, sad on them, and I hope they drop dead slowly, in great pain. James Baldwin
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Ex-slaves, in large part, shared a different economic vision. They were "always on the move, " searching for family, denying their labor to "dishonest or oppressive employers, " and asserting their independence through their mobility. Rather than staying in place, working as much as possible for a high a wage as possible, and thus possibly accumulating a greater array of material good, a large number of freedpeople sought not to maximize income but to minimize the amount of "time spent at work on other people's behalf. Elsa Barkley Brown
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But let’s not forget the Jew. Anybody that gives even a just criticism of the Jew is instantly labeled anti- Semite. The Jew cries louder than anybody else if anybody criticizes him. You can tell the truth about any minority in America, but make a true observation about the Jew, and if it doesn’t 't pat him on the back, then he uses his grip on the news media to label you anti- Semite. Malcolm X
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Though I'm not sure, I thought I saw women dressed in black, with her head and face covered by a black veil, duck behind a tree as we approached the road and parked car. Hiding so we wouldn't see her. But I caught a glimpse, enough to reveal the rope of lustrous pearls she wore. Pearls that were there for a thin white hand to lift and nervously, out of long habit, twist and untwist into a knot. Only one women I knew did that--and she was the perfect one to wear black, and should run to hide! Forever hide! Color all her days black! Every last one! . V.C. Andrews
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Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously. Charley Pride
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There's a hole in the world like a big black pit who are filled with people who are filled with shit. Stephen Sondheim
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Don’t you dare come into my world and tell me what color the ocean is! It’s black. Black as midnight. Black and awful! Nadia Scrieva
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So black is my heart for it is buried in the fiery chasm of untameable passion. It beats in the dark recesses of unquenchable thirst for love and desire from which there is no return... Virginia Alison
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The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power. The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors and deserves respect if not enthusiastic admiration. Maya Angelou
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I don't trust the everyday: it is a mask, a sham. It gives the illusion of permanence, of an unshatterable calm, a placid surface; and yet underneath the pot is slowly coming to a boil. Rebecca Walker
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As a black woman interested in feminist movement, I am often asked whether being black is more important than being a woman; whether feminist struggle to end sexist oppression is more important than the struggle to racism or vice versa. All such questions are rooted in competitive either/or thinking, the belief that the self is formed in opposition to an other.. Most people are socialized to think in terms of opposition rather than compatibility. Rather than seeing anti-racist work as totally compatible with working to end sexist oppression, they often see them as two movements competing for first place. . Bell Hooks
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Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know? Chris Rock
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We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are. J.k. Rowling
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I preach darkness. I don't inspire hope–only shadows. It's up to you to find the light in my words. Unknown
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Dark energy is the absence of love, just as black is the absence of color. The more love, the more colors added to the palette, the more light is achieved. Brownell Landrum
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All these many-coloured feelings fell... like light on a black surface, producing no change, meeting no return. Catharine Maria Sedgwick
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If you can place black where it suppose to be, you will see white and white is light. Unknown
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The black color is much deeper than to be overwhelmed by grief… Black hides everything within itself in the argument of elegance. Eyden I.
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Do not trap yourself into an owl's hooting soundwhere sad nights linger through the blackness of a hound Munia Khan
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I don’t want to be a free nigger; I want to be a free man.”“ Don’t we all. Look. Be what you want--- white or black. Choose. But if you choose black, you got to act black, meaning draw your manhood up–quicklike, and don’t bring me no whiteboy sass.” Hunter’s Hunter and Godlen Gray Toni Morrison
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Not at all, " persisted Chalmers, unaware that Shea was trying to shush him. "The people of the country have agreed to call magic 'white' when practised for lawful ends by duly authorized agents of the governing authority, and 'black' when practised by unauthorized persons for criminal ends. That is not to say that the principles of the science – or art – are not the same in either event. You should confine such terms as 'black' and 'white' to the objects for which the magic is performed, and not apply it to the science itself, which like all branches of knowledge is morally neutral –""But, " protested Belphebe, "is't not that the spell used to, let us say, kidnap a worthy citizen be different from that used to trap a malefactor?"" Verbally but not structurally, " Chalmers went on. After some minutes of wrangling, Chalmers held up the bone of his drumstick. "I think I can, for instance, conjure the parrot back on this bone – or at least fetch another parrot in place of the one we ate. Will you concede, young lady, that that is a harmless manifestation of the art?"" Aye, for the now, " said the girl. "Though I know you schoolmen; say 'I admit this; I concede that, ' are ere long one finds oneself conceded into a noose."" Therefore it would be 'white' magic. But suppose I desired the parrot for some – uh – illegal purpose –""What manner of crime for ensample, good sir?" asked Belphebe."I – uh – can't think just now. Assume that I did. The spell would be the same in either case –""Ah, but would it?" cried Belphebe. "Let me see you conjure a brace of parrots, one fair, one foul; then truly I'll concede." Chalmers frowned. "Harold, what would be a legal purpose for which to conjure a parrot?" Shea shrugged. "If you really want an answer, no purpose would be as legal as any, unless there's something in gamelaws. Personally I think it's the silliest damned argument – . Unknown
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I don’t know about black or white magic I just know one type and that is your magic. M.F. Moonzajer
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The colour of fear is never dark or black; it has the colour of thunderbolt; usually white, but can appear in different hues depending on how the fear travels through to get inside your heart Munia Khan
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Those without color–say, dressed in all black–can go about almost unnoticed. Where the rainbow is conspicuous, their darkness acts as a kind of camouflage, masculine by contrast, and allows them to watch without being watched. It’s the choice of someone who needs not to attract. Someone self-sufficient. Someone more distant, less knowable, and ultimately, mysterious. Powerful. Sam Wasson
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...somewhere, on some subterranean level, her darkness and his may have connected. Haruki Murakami
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Thank you for undusting my true colors; or color: black... Oh, how I missed the darkness! Ahmed Mostafa
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The darkness always lies. Anthony Liccione
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...you can have a dark heart and be a writer, but you can't have a black one.. John Geddes
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I sense pure evil. I see a figure all dressed in black, but I can't make out the face. Stan Schatt
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White is not always light and black is not always dark. Habeeb Akande
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The black clouds and the white clouds, Black means rain White means no rain Today it was different, It rained despite of white clouds. And nobody got wet. Bikash Chaurasiya
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The man in black travels with your soul in his pocket. Stephen King
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They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food. Stephen King
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They were close to the end of the beginning .. . Stephen King
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Once again there was the desert, and that only. Stephen King
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Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy. Stephen King
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There was murder, there was rape, there were unspeakable practices, and all of them were for the good, the bloody good, the bloody myth, for the grail, for the Tower. Stephen King
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The trap had a ghastly perfection Stephen King
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UFO.... MIB???UFO = MIB??! ?What now... please keep the silence! Deyth Banger
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When the prophet, a complacent fat man, Arrived at the mountain-top He cried: "Woe to my knowledge! I intended to see good white lands And bad black lands– But the scene is grey. Stephen Crane
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I want to be a guileless rook to discolor the blackness of all crafty human hearts Munia Khan
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One day you’re going to get arrested, and when you do, don’t call me. I’ll tell the police to lock you up just to teach you a lesson.” Because there were some black parents who’d actually do that, not pay their kid’s bail, not hire their kid a lawyer–the ultimate tough love. But it doesn’t always work, because you’re giving the kid tough love when maybe he just needs love. You’re trying to teach him a lesson, and now that lesson is the rest of his life. . Trevor Noah
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If you look beyond the lies, then you will see the truth. Remember: Just because it's black and white, doesn't automatically make it a zebra. Anthony T. Hincks
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Eventually, some black thinkers believe, this "separation" may be the shortest route to an authentic communication at some future date when blacks and whites can enter into encounters in which they truly speak as equals and in which the white man will no longer load every phrase with unconscious suggestions that he has something to "concede" to black men or that he wants to help black men "overcome" their blackness. John Howard Griffin
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Gratitude comes in a spectrum of colors, but Ingratitude is always black. Ankala V Subbarao
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... paint in blue and black...sometimes gray - the colors of night - occasionally I surprise you with a mustard yellow, but then, I am a poet ... John Geddes
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I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together. Marcus Garvey
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I think in life there is only one absolute truth. Death... It's the only definitive horizon, sometime it leaps, runs across mountains and vanishes beyond oceans but the closer you get, the more you see and you know it is the final destination, the absolute truth. We are only living to die. Crystal Evans
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For there was nothing in his eyes but the black night and the cold stars. Susanna Clarke
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Those shiny eyes like the stars in the sky; but black and brown, And those beautiful lips like the flowers but sugary And those kind smells, lovable but with no purpose All meant to be for me? Someone must have been praying and wishing me the whole world M.F. Moonzajer
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Amongst all the colours in this multicoloured world, even jet black has its reserved place. Priyavrat Thareja
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Vengeance was one hell of a roommate. J.r. Ward
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I do not believe we can stop them, Samori, because they must ultimately stop themselves. And still I urge you to struggle. Struggle for the memory of your ancestors. Struggle for wisdom. Struggle for the warmth of The Mecca. Struggle for your grandmother and grandfather, for your name. But do not struggle for the Dreamers. Hope for them. Pray for them, if you are so moved. But do not pin your struggle on their conversion. The Dreamers will have to learn to struggle themselves, to understand that the field for their Dream, the stage where they have painted themselves white, is the deathbed of us all. The Dream is the same habit that endangers this planet, the same habit that sees our bodies stowed away in prisons and ghettos. TaNehisi Coates
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I believe it’s incredibly important to write against [racial] stereotypes. If we give in and make sure that all black women characters are asexual, gentle, and kind we wind up with another set of stereotypes. Justine Larbalestier
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Is that vodka?' Margarita asked weakly. The cat jumped up from its chair in indignation. 'Excuse me, your majesty, ' he squeaked, 'do you think I would give vodka to a lady? That is pure spirit! Mihail Bulhakov
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Yellow is the colour of the sun. Blue is the colour of the sky. Green is the colour of grass. Brown is the colour of your eyes. Black is the colour of the night. Orange is the colour of truth. Red is the colour of love. And... Rainbow is the colour of you. Anthony T. Hincks
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She never answered. She couldn’t. All she could do was stare, reaching toward him with her gaze alone, pulling him to drown in the sorrow of those depthless black pools. Kelly Creagh
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Do your parents know you’re here?' asked the lady at social Services. ‘No, ’ I said, ‘but I want to know about children’s homes.’ I had to stand on my toes to see over the reception desk. Constance Briscoe
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[O]ur revolt was as much against the traditional black leadership structure as it was against segregation and discrimination. John Lewis
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Looked from different aspects hate just cause more problems it doesn't solve. I hate dogs, I hate black people, I hate yellow people, I hate this person, I hate my father, I hate my mother. And in the end what happens?? It gets even more worse, what are you planning better life or a worse life - that's my question?! Deyth Banger
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...The fact that it's black transforms it. Has the same effect on women that black stockings have on men. Daphne Du Maurier
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Don’t wait up for me tonight, for the night will be black and white. Unknown
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A radiant full moon of silver hangs in the black sky, between the veils of misty clouds. Moonshine Noire
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Me and my insatiable curiosity. If there's any justice in the world, I was a very good cat in a past life. Rhi Etzweiler
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I think you should know that real-life white people are not all as funny as the ones on 'Seinfeld'. Aaron McGruder
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It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient. James Weldon Johnson
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Sometimes I'm a black. Not everyone realizes blackness has to be conferred upon you again and again. It's like getting your nails done. Or being pantsed. People assume I'm cool. Laura Yes Yes
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Black skin was filled with so many barriers, so many restrictions, so many. Randi Pink
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After using a paint chart from a local DIY superstore to identify the skin tone of his penis as midnight chocolate, Miriam stayed down on one knee and offered him the citizenship he had always wanted and the middle-aged white woman he would grudgingly accept. David F. Porteous
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One may picture, too, the sudden shifting of the attention, the swiftly spreading coils and bellyings of that blackness advancing headlong, towering heavenward, turning the twilight to a palpable darkness, a strange and horrible antagonist of vapour striding upon its victims, men and horses near it seen dimly, running, shrieking, falling headlong, shouts of dismay, the guns suddenly abandoned, men choking and writhing on the ground, and the swift broadening-out of the opaque cone of smoke. And then night and extinction — nothing but a silent mass of impenetrable vapour hiding its dead. H.G. Wells
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Who ever thought to put the word "hero" in heroin? Anthony Liccione
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Whose starboard eye Saw chariot 'swing low'? James Weldon Johnson
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It was lunar symbolism that enabled man to relate and connect such heterogeneous things as: birth, becoming, death, and ressurection; the waters, plants, woman, fecundity, and immortality; the cosmic darkness, prenatal existence, and life after death, followed by the rebirth of the lunar type ("light coming out of darkness"); weaving, the symbol of the "thread of life, " fate, temporality, and death; and yet others. In general most of the ideas of cycle, dualism, polarity, opposition, conflict, but also of reconciliation of contraries, of coincidentia oppositorum, were either discovered or clarified by virtue of lunar symbolism. We may even speak of a metaphysics of the moon, in the sense of a consistent system of "truths" relating to the mode of being peculiar to living creatures, to everything in the cosmos that shares in life, that is, in becoming, growth and waning, death and ressurrection. Mircea Eliade
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From time to time, you may see a girl wearing her black opaque tights as pants. They are, in fact, not. Unknown