1,474 Quotes About Black

  • Author Lerone Bennett
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    Mr. Johnson changed the color of American media. Before Ebony, before Mr. Johnson, blacks were not seen in major media in this country. They were not pictured on the front pages; there were no black models, he created that foundation which is reverberating throughout the media today,

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  • Author Lerone Bennett
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    People say he was a great black publisher, but I worked for him for 52 years and it is my unbiased, objective opinion that considering the depth from which he came and the height to which he climbed and the obstacles he overcame he was the greatest of all American publishers, black or white,

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  • Author Lisa Bonet
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    Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.

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  • Author Lord Black
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    Conrad Black asserts his innocence without qualification with respect to each and every one of the charges set forth in the indictment,

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  • Author Malorie Blackman
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    I remember being in a history lesson and saying to my teacher, 'How come you never talk about black scientists and inventors and pioneers?' And she looked at me and said, 'Because there aren't any.'

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  • Author Malorie Blackman
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    Children will go with any story as long as it's good, but white adults sometimes think that if a black child's on the cover, it is perhaps not for them.

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  • Author Mark Badgley
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    She goes to a cocktail party that's a sea of little black dresses and it's get boring. So she comes in with this little opulent couture pastel complexion cocktail, and they're so charming.

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  • Author Martin Brodeur
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    For him, it's definitely a black eye that's going to stay with him and it's unfortunate. It shouldn't be like that, but that's just the way it is. ... It's an unfortunate situation, but everybody is responsible for what they put in their body.

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  • Author Mike Blum
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    I've probably tried it five times. And I am very black and white and I need to find the right answer. But when you think you've got it, and you don't, and you have to start it all over again, it's just frustrating.

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