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  • I used to get my hair dyed at a place called Big Hair. It cost $15. They just used straight bleach, so my hair was the color of white lined paper, and my eyebrows looked like they were done with a thick black marker.

    Hair   Color   Eyebrows  
    "Tina Fey on Top". Interview with Amy Poehler, www.marieclaire.com. April 10, 2008.
  • With all the trouble black people have, they try to forget on weekends. You've got to be good to make them laugh.

  • No woman on this whole earth can please me and cook for me and socialise and talk to me like my American black woman.

    Please Me   Black   Earth  
    "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.
  • Painting it was hard graft... in addition red, yellow, brown ochre, black, terra sienna, bistre, and the result is a red-brown that varies from bistre to deep wine-red and to pale, blond reddish.

    Wine   Yellow   Black  
  • Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.

    Death   Black   Camels  
    "The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations". Edited by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 79, 1882.
  • I could turn around as Wyatt Walker said to me about, not you personally, but about the whole Black Muslim movement. That if you go outside of New York City, Dr. [Martin Luther] King is known to 90 percent of the Negroes in the United States and is respected and, and is identified more or less with him, at least as a hero of one kind or another. That the Black Muslim, outside of one or two communities like New York, are unknown.

    New York   Kings   Hero  
    Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.
  • Everybody has their black moments.

    Black   Moments  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • My wife has a black belt in shopping.

    Funny   Humor   Shopping  
  • Black people loving and losing is something we don’t see enough of. We’re always in these heightened situations like something big is happening, something funny or something violent. And you know what? Sometimes we die of breast cancer or a broken heart. Things happen that are just not being explored cinematically. It’s time we reinvigorated that type of film.

    Cancer   Heart   People  
  • As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.

    Giving Up   Focus   Black  
  • Today he wore a burnt-orange shirt, black pants, and a tie that looked like a street fight at the south end of the color wheel.

    Fighting   Color   Orange  
    Kathy Reichs (2014). “Monday Mourning: A Novel”, p.121, Simon and Schuster
  • I didn't have many friends. I was very shy ... And, then, even worse, when I was 14 I became Gothic. I had long, black hair. I was going to school with makeup. Because I was trying to find my language, to scream to the world that I felt so closed in a box where I was living.

    School   Makeup   Hair  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • We have multiple Black men and women losing their lives simply for being. Who gets to say you don't get to live anymore? I don't understand that. And it doesn't stop there. Can we go into the school system and look at the imbalance of what our children are learning? We are functioning crazy, people.

    Children   Crazy   School  
    Source: www.ebony.com
  • I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.

    Freedom   Party   Black  
  • Computers are scary. Theyre nightmares to fix, lose our stuff, and, on occasion, they crash, producing the blue screen of death. Steve Jobs knew this. He knew that computers were bulky and hernia-inducing and Darth Vader black. He understood the value of declarative design.

    Jobs   Blue   Design  
  • Really, an historic night last night. You may have heard, Barack Obama will be the first black president of the United States of America. ... Obama is also the first Democrat to receive more than 50 percent of the vote since Jimmy Carter, the first senator to be elected since Jack Kennedy, the first Muslim to be ... I said too much.

    Night   America   Black  
  • A real common problem with a lot of animals is that guys are bad, hate to say it, but they will tune into some big feature like the glasses, maybe the beard, baseball hats, you know some unique feature like that. And they'll generalize like, "Okay! All people with baseball hats or black rimmed glasses are bad."

    Baseball   Hate   Real  
    Interview with Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.
  • What a dull universe it would be if everything in it conformed to our expectations, if it held nothing to surprise or baffle us or confound our common sense. A century ago no one foresaw the existence of black holes, an expanding universe, oceans on Jupiter's moons, or DNA. What could be more enriching than to know that we share a common origin with all living things, that we are kin to chimpanzees, redwoods and mollusks? And isn't it a source of wonder to realize that the iron in our blood and the calcium in our bones were created in the bellies of supernovas?

    Ocean   Moon   Dna  
  • Think black love, think universal love. Just think love.

    "New Again: Lauryn Hill". Interview with Genevieve Glass and Maxwell, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 2, 2013.
  • Be good children, and we shall all meet in Heaven. I want to meet you all, white and black, in Heaven. Our Federal Union! It must be preserved! [Toast at a celebration of Thomas Jefferson's birthday, April 13 1830]

    Children   White   Heaven  
  • Black and white might be sufficient. But why deprive yourself of color.

  • You're not looking for a partner," Ranger said. "You're looking for an enforcer. You hate to run. You must be worried about getting into that black dress. What did you eat just now? Piece of cake? Candy bar?" "Everything," I said. "I just ate everything.

    Running   Hate   Cake  
    Janet Evanovich (2010). “High Five”, p.85, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
  • You didn't think of angels as white or black. They were angels.

    Angel   Thinking   White  
  • The revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and black-market wheeler-dealers, who are standing in power now and have represented a dirty hybrid unseen in world history

    Party   Dirty   Kgb  
  • I cannot face my God much longer knowing that his black creatures are held separate and distinct from his white creatures in the game that has given me all that I can call my own.

    Games   White   Knowing  
  • A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.

    Swans   Bird   Black  
    'Satires' no. 6, l. 165
  • Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.

    Dream   Pain   Ocean  
    FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Dec 04, 2012
  • Actually, some of the things I experienced as a child still linger on; what the white man has done to the black people in the south!

    Source: www.encyclopedia.com
  • Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes.

    Lakes   Swans   Black  
  • I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.

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