#black

The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#black #created #grew #myths #people

When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who are in school systems that don't educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#bit #blacks #bottom #crime #educate

So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

#black and white #boss #felt #gave #had

That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into a status that involves work in alternative economies and increasing numbers of people who are incarcerated. ↗

— Angela Davis

#being #black #color #contemporary #economies

When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress? ↗

— Marilyn French

#black #kept #out #progress #were

It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#car #coming #decide #driving #feet

The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration. ↗

— Sally Quinn

#also #around #black #black hole #clinton

No one really gets rich doing this. A couple people do, Black Sabbath does. We don't sell any records anymore. ↗

— Thurston Moore

#anymore #black #black sabbath #couple #does

[Phoebe Broome] 'Well,' she said at last. 'You've now met my father. At his worst.' [Lord Vladimir] 'Being myself widely considered my family's most difficult member, I would not presume to comment.' 'That is... gentlemanly of you. ↗

— Alison Sinclair

#family #forebearance #humor #family

Black money is so much a part of our white economy, a tumour in the centre of the brain - try to remove it and you kill the patient. ↗

— Rohinton Mistry

#economy #money #shadow-economy #family