#black

As a matter of fact they'd blacken us down. I guess there's a reason that according to what the Caucasian wanted us to look like. He wanted us to look-if we were Black, then he had his idea of what we look like. ↗

— Billy Eckstine

#black #caucasian #down #fact #guess

In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#blacks #clear #compared #evidence #fact

In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either. ↗

— Ike Turner

#contracts #days #either #man #marriages

If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it. ↗

— J. M. W. Turner

#black #could #find #i #if i could

I know the difference between black magic and white magic. ↗

— Tina Turner

#black #black magic #difference #i #know

What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled? ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#black #elite #empowerment #majority #recycled

Black beauty - he's a dark horse. ↗

— Tim Vine

#black #dark #horse

I like to talk to people. I've got one assistant, one Blackberry. That's my overhead. I don't text that much or email. I like to sit down face-to-face and have a conversation with you. I'm old-fashioned. ↗

— Mark Wahlberg

#blackberry #conversation #down #email #face-to-face

So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people who don't want to be read as just a black poet, or just a woman poet, or just someone who represents a cause, an anti-Vietnam war poet. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#been #before #black #cause #correct

As a lifelong Oregonian, I prefer our forests green, not black. ↗

— Greg Walden

#forests #green #i #lifelong #our