Quotes of: Black-america Keyword

If you can place black where it suppose to be, you will see white and white is light.

Temi 'T Quest' Sholeye

I'm a black lady from the Lower East Side of New York. Not a lot intimidates me.

Ursula Burns

Either you're going to shoot us or you're not. The ball always lands on red or black, never both.

Life

It's very difficult not to come across as a white supremacist when there are so many black inferiorists around.

Life

When I started at XCRF in 1960, Mexico was the most lenient country in the world when it came to radio.

Wolfman Jack

In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.

William James

The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites.

William Weld

It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan.

Zakk Wylde

Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.

Angela Davis

In my case, the listener is often in an automobile driving to work. You can concentrate on the road while still getting an audio message that can be riveting.

Bob Edwards

Rich kids work hard. Most black kids aren't working hard enough.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III

There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still.

Goldwin Smith

Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.

Jesse Jackson

I started writing because I got so frustrated that there weren't enough plays that had roles for young black women in them.

Katori Hall

Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth.

Phyllis Schlafly

The U.S. military was segregated 'til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated.

Clint Eastwood

There were fat cats and skinny cats. The long-tailed and the bobbed. The daring young leapers, and the old windowsill sleepers. Balls of waddling fluff, smooth-coated prowlers, and hairless ones that looked fragile and wise. The tiger-striped, the ri...

The Cat's Maw

You're not like other Wasps." "Aren't I?" Aagen smiled, but it was a painful smile. "No doubt you've killed my kinsmen by the score." "A few," Salma allowed. "Well, next time you shed my kinden's blood, think on this: we are but men, no less nor more...

Empire in Black and Gold

The novelist Dumas would one day borrow features from both of his uncles, not to mention his grandfather, the acknowledged scoundrel, in fashioning the central villains of The Count of Monte Cristo. Reading court documents detailing the sordid unrave...

The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo

I brought the newspaper close up to my eyes to get a better view of George Pollucci's face, spotlighted like a three-quarter moon against a vague background of brick and black sky. I felt he had something important to tell me, and that whatever it wa...

The Bell Jar

I finally found my way to the Really Restricted Section, where they keep the kind of books most scholars aren't even supposed to know exist. I knocked on the closed door, said the proper passwords, and the door opened before me. I walked in, and the ...

The Bride Wore Black Leather