I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.
I am more of an old black and white movies fan.
Nina: It's my turn to be the Black Swan!
I really bristle when I get called to events and people introduce me as one of the top black anchors in the country. You know, that's very insulting. I'm striving to be one of the best anchors in the country. Handcuff me like that. What you're saying...
The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a gr...
We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96 percent of blacks voted for him in 2008. Yet today we are the number one in unemployment, with 16 per...
[after Inigo pulls the Man in Black to the top] Man in Black: Thank you. [He begins to draw his sword, but Inigo motions him to stop] Inigo Montoya: We'll wait until you are ready. Man in Black: [sheathes sword] Again, thank you.
Black holes are very exotic objects. Technically, a black hole puts a huge amount of mass inside of zero volume. So our understanding of the center of black holes doesn't make sense, which is a big clue to physicists that we don't have our physics qu...
We have this interesting problem with black holes. What is a black hole? It is a region of space where you have mass that's confined to zero volume, which means that the density is infinitely large, which means we have no way of describing, really, w...
Yeah, right. Instead of watching TV, we'll practice our weird magical powers. Great. What's next? Zooming around on flying carpets?
any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.
If you want to call it that. But it is a very specific sort of magic. There's a magic you take from death. Something leaves the world, something else comes into it.
All money is imaginary," answered the Calcatrix simply. "Money is magic everyone agrees to pretend is not magic.
He ran from one side of the cage, and then back again, which was not very far. It was far only if you were a puppy.
Every cloud doesn't have a silver lining but making time to look at the beauty of clouds can give you peace of mind
Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore. The two are rarely compatible.
(reporter interviewing Broadway dancer Tommy Tune:) 'Do you think that greats like Fred Astaire possessed some kind of magic?' (pause) 'No. Magic possesses them'.
Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.
In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.
Your problem, Kendra, is that you can easily imagine using magic. What you have to do now is imagine the magic itself.
Soon the grizzly was joined by a brown bear, a sun bear, and a beaver suffering from an identity crisis of magnificent proportion
