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  • It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.

    Funny   Beautiful   Hair  
  • Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job, or a slum mother battling to give her kids a chance for a better life. But white is beautiful, too, when it helps change society to make our system work for black people also. White is ugly when it oppresses blacks-and so is black ugly when black people exploit other blacks. No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.

    Beautiful   Mother   Jobs  
    Whitney M. Young (1969). “Beyond Racism: Building an Open Society”
  • All the books that were being published by African-American guys were saying 'screw whitey', or some variation of that. Not the scholars but the pop books. And the other thing they said was, 'You have to confront the oppressor.' I understand that. But you don't have to look at the world through his eyes. I'm not a stereotype; I'm not somebody else's version of who I am. And so when people said at that time black is beautiful – yeah? Of course. Who said it wasn't? So I was trying to say, in The Bluest Eye, wait a minute. Guys. There was a time when black wasn't beautiful. And you hurt.

    Beautiful   Hurt   Book  
    "Toni Morrison: 'I want to feel what I feel. Even if it's not happiness'". Interview With Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.
  • When you say 'Black is beautiful' you are saying, 'Man you are okay as you are, begin to look upon yourself as a human being'.

    Beautiful   Men   Black  
  • I tend to think having that extreme of color, that kind of black, is amazingly beautiful...and powerful. What I was thinking to do with my image was to reclaim the image of blackness as an emblem of power.

  • Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job. . . .

    Whitney M. Young (1969). “Beyond Racism: Building an Open Society”
  • Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!

    Beautiful   Hair   Black  
  • Humans tend to start the process of change by acknowledging themselves. Thus blacks asserted black pride and 'black is beautiful;' women declared 'I am woman, I am strong'; men are saying 'I am man, I am okay.' After a quarter of a century of male bashing, that's not a bad start.

    "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.
  • I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.

  • We weren't pushing Black is beautiful. We just showed it.

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