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  • The impact of black music and black art forms on American culture is really difficult to appreciate.

    Art   Impact   Appreciate  
    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection.

    Art   Thinking   Nsa  
    "Snowden at SXSW: 'The Constitution was being violated on a massive scale'". www.rt.com. March 10, 2014.
  • The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the 'Negro's' reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images.

    Art   Reality   Black  
    "Black art is dangerous, because it marries the personal and political" by Hannah Giorgis, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2015.
  • With the advance of knowledge, therefore, prayer and sacrifice assume the leading place in religious ritual; and magic; which once ranked with them as a legitimate equal, is gradually relegated to the background and sinks to the level of a black art.

    Religious   Art   Prayer  
    "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.
  • Black art has always existed. It just hasn't been looked for in the right places.

    Art   Black   Black Art  
  • Production of identity is a resistance element, an aggressive element. Both a refusal and an affirmation and an assertion, and certainly, we in Jamaica were talking about black art. And the idea that there is a role for art in the civil rights revolution and in the successor to the civil rights revolution.

    Art   Ideas   Rights  
    Source: www.raintaxi.com
  • I don't know why people always compare me [ with Amiri Baraka] I was never part of the Black Arts Repertory Theater or the Black Arts Movement; people who claim that I was are wrong. I was downtown. I was living in Chelsea when they were operating in Harlem.

    Art   People   Black  
    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • If you think about black art, all black art, whether it's Invisible Man or whether it's James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Zora Hurston, or Richard Wright, they all deal with elements of identity and trying to humanize our experience and our struggle in the world where people have been indifferent to who we are and what we are. It's basically just saying that our lives have meaning.

    Art   Struggle   Men  
    Source: deadline.com
  • Do you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts." He nodded. "But a useful one," he said.

    Art   Black   Said  
    Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “The Tombs of Atuan”, p.136, Simon and Schuster
  • Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts - a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments.

    Art   Marine   Army  
    Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.198, Graphic Arts Books
  • If cathedrals had been universities If dungeons of the Inquisition had been laboratories If Christians had believed in character instead of creed If they had taken from the bible only that which is GOOD and thrown away the wicked and absurd If temple domes had been observatories If priests had been philosophers If missionaries had taught useful arts instead of bible lore If astrology had been astronomy If the black arts had been chemistry If superstition had been science If religion had been humanity The world then would be a heaven filled with love, and liberty and joy

    Christian   Art   Taken  
  • I know now it's a hashtag and people have various feelings about it, but really if you look at all black art, even in hip-hop, it's all about that I exist and these are my feelings and this is what I feel about the world. It's always been an undercurrent.

    Art   People   Hip Hop  
    Source: deadline.com
  • The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.

    Art   Years   Black  
  • Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.

    Art   Black   Automation  
    "Poet in New York". Book by Federico Garcia Lorca, 1940.
  • If I choose this platform [The Black Arts Movement] and God validates this platform, I feel like we have to use the hyper-reality to get people closer to [actual] reality. Right now is so special because it's the information age and people just want to be aware and there's no better way of doing that than through art.

    Art   Reality   People  
    Source: www.ebony.com
  • The art of publicity is a black art.

    Art   Black   Publicity  
    Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”
  • In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.

    Art   Political   Black  
  • I was roommates with 2 of the guys who were influential in forming the Black Arts philosophy. I called them "goons," and [Amiri] Baraka took offense at that. But if you read his autobiography, the night we went up there for a fundraiser, he talks about how he wished that some violence would happen to us. How do you like Baraka as a gracious host?

    Art   Philosophy   Night  
    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • I love to go out in late September among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries to eat blackberries for breakfast, the stalks very prickly, a penalty they earn for knowing the black art of blackberry-making; and as I stand among them lifting the stalks to my mouth, the ripest berries fall almost unbidden to my tongue, as words sometimes do, certain peculiar words like strengths or squinched, many-lettered, one-syllabled lumps, which I squeeze, squinch open, and splurge well in the silent, startled, icy, black language of blackberry - eating in late September.

    Art   Fall   Knowing  
    Galway Kinnell (2001). “A New Selected Poems”, p.97, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence.

    Art   Black   Doubt  
    Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Miscellanies”, p.135
  • Casting is really a black art. It's a huge part of directing and it's the most invisible. It's one that people don't really think about or talk about. But you can really destroy your movie by casting it badly before you've shot a foot of film. And yet there are no guidebooks for it, there's no rule book to tell you how to do it. It's all your own experience and your own sensibility and your own intuition.

    Art   Book   Thinking  
    "Cronenberg Talks Intellectual Menage a Trois A Dangerous Method, Knightley’s Bondage". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. November 26, 2011.
  • Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline.

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