#black

The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#character #early #i #like #lot

The bravery of Stanley Kramer's 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' amounted to two Hollywood legends - Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy - telling the world that a black son-in-law is something they can live with, and so should you, especially if he looks like Sidney Poitier and has degrees. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#black #bravery #coming #degrees #dinner

Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#black #black and white #civil rights #era #helping

A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#behave #believe #black #country #jewish

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#black #city #complicity #enormous #none

For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#black #conflict #convinced #country #event

I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#anybody #black #cares #i #money

There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles. ↗

— Van Morrison

#highs #life #lows #part #situation

Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

#ago #black #disappointment #golden #i

It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black. ↗

— Yoko Ono

#colored #happened #might #painted #painting