#lack

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#around #black #circle #dead #drag

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#discloses #disguises #foolish #lack #their

When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only white man in this unit full of black men. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#being #black #culture #full #growing

Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the ages of eight and ten I collected avidly. I'd pore over my Stanley Gibbons book, obsessively checking my collection's value. I always hoped I'd stumble across a really valuable one, a Penny Black or an Inverted Jenny, but it wasn't to be. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#ages #always #avidly #between #black

White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#deal #god #jesus #more #people

This country is just that great that the opportunities are there for a Hispanic president, a black president or any other race for a president, yes. ↗

— Chris Tucker

#black #country #great #hispanic #just

Lack of charisma can be fatal. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#fatal #lack

I don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side. ↗

— Bob Marley

#god #men #music #side #men

I love England. It's no coincidence it's the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks. ↗

— Bjork

#cosmopolitan #england #first #i #i love

This marched was planned to be non violent and non confrontational, and gladly it stayed that way. What really impressed me was the self discipline of the Black Block. ↗

— John Blair

#block #confrontational #discipline #gladly #impressed