#black

Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#anybody #before #black #folks #history

I couldn't wait to be, you know, a Black Panther. Of course they wouldn't let me join. ↗

— David Alan Grier

#course #i #join #know #me

That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It's by my character. ↗

— Pam Grier

#black #character #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement

Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then. ↗

— Pam Grier

#african american #american #black #concise #dark

It took about six years to get the Black Lung stuff. It didn't come just instantly. Sometimes, I see lobby groups, today, upset because they work the whole session and nothing happens. ↗

— Richard Grimes

#because #black #come #get #groups

But, I understand that Black Comb and Whistler are supposed to be great for snowboarding. So I am looking forward to going there someday soon. ↗

— Bridget Hall

#black #comb #forward #going #great

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#before #black #black holes #case #else

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#black #black hole #blunder #destroyed #hole

You can muck around with different guitars for certain bits, but you have to have your own sound. That's your benchmark, that's your sound. I also play a Black Beauty. It sounds amazing. ↗

— Dan Hawkins

#amazing #around #beauty #benchmark #bits

The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones. ↗

— Julius Charles Hare

#impressions #like #longest #mind #ones