Top 35 Daniel Black Quotes
#1. But remember this: you're strong because of your people - not in spite of them.
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#2. That's why he'd bought her. He'd already imagined the children she'd bear and the cotton she'd pick and the house she'd clean every day of her life.
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#3. Evidence doesn't always convince people of the truth, [ ... ] especially when the lie is what they prefer.
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#4. The power of speech does not rely upon meaning. Words carry energy all by themselves. They vibrate through the air, with the intention of the speaker, shaping consciousness and touching hearts whether understood or not.
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#5. We had been concerned with complex, invisible knowledge, when we should've also been searching for God in simple things. Senior
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#6. People determined to survive are willing to sacrifice anything to achieve that end. Captors
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#7. They couldn't have known that slowly, year by year, the ocean's water would ingest a people's fury so completely that hurricanes would come each season and claim lives in recompense for Africans gone overboard.
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#8. When we'd had slaves, we'd purchased people's labor - not their bodies! We never thought we owned someone's arms, legs, feet, heart. How was that possible? How much does an arm cost? A leg? Feet? Hands? How
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#9. Sometimes, when people think they're putting obstacles in your path, they're actually laying your stepping-stones. You just gotta recognize them as one and the same.
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#10. E all do it. We talk about people we don't like until they become famous. Then we love 'em.
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#11. Perhaps future generations, the beautiful ones unborn, would wonder how we survived it all. What would we say? Or, more probably, what would history say for us? It would not speak truth. Not whole truth. It could not.
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#12. Carrying a child is a sacred thing. There is a bond established between mother and child in the womb that lasts forever. The truth of this bond can never be erased.
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#13. Occasionally, young men, too, were thus violated. They fought like cornered lions. It always took three or four crewmen to subdue one of our boys.
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#14. By figuring out how the experience can help you move forward. That's the point of why it happened to you in the first place. There's something you're suppose to get from the moment that'll get you closer to your mission if you can see it. Most people can't.
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#15. We were wonderful, but we were not flawless. We knew excellence because we knew failure. We were human beings.
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#16. Our body parts were the trademark, we believed, of a sacred, majestic people. Now the ugliness of our situation made us begin to loathe the body we'd once loved. It was a gradual occurrence at first, more a thought than a truth, but we knew that once planted, a seed soon reveals all that it bears.
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#17. God already knowed what you was gon' pray for befo' you was eva born. He done already took yo' requests into account when he was planning de world.
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#18. If you different, be different. People'll get used to it. They ain't got no other choice
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#19. Our names told us who we were. They told us why we'd been sent. What was expected of us. We were not confused. We were not ashamed. We were not perfect, but we were excellent.
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#20. Don't give people god's power. Yeah, they have opinions and stuff, but they ain't got no power to change your world unless you give it to 'em. Keep the power you got. You'll need it. I promise.
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#21. Denial makes people repeat what they aren't willing to acknowledge.
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#22. Sometimes you have to grow up before you appreciate how you grew up.
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#23. Some never spoke another word. Some never married. Some couldn't look at a woman again, even their own mothers and sisters. Some wanted to touch and hold lovers, but their arms could not embrace.
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#24. Anybody can live good - soon as they decide the world can kiss they ass.
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#25. Truth was, they died as we died. It made sense. The universe demands life for life.
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#26. another. "If you do find someone you like, just be careful. The heart'll
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#27. Among us lived every spirit conceivable. Men who loved women, women who loved men. Women who loved women, men who loved men. These were not choices but life assignments. Everyone had one.
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#28. You can't lie a lifetime,son. Either you gon' tell the truth, or the truth's gon' tell on you
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#29. You have to get clear about the kind of life you can live here. Life can be lived anywhere, but not every life can be lived everywhere.
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#30. Now we know that prophesies come to one generation and materialize in another. If
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#31. He'd thought all weak men were sissies, and maybe they were, but Paul had shown him that not all sissies were weak.
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#32. It was a peculiar odor, the smell of sexual violation, a mixture of rotting flesh and underarm stench. They shivered even though the heat belowdecks would've suffocated the weak. Our desecrated brothers survived because, as best we could, we reminded them of who they were.
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#33. Big don't mean ugly, and thin sho don't mean pretty. If a person wants to be pretty, they gotta walk pretty, talk pretty and act pretty. Can't nobody take pretty from you.
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#34. God has a way of making sure you reach your destiny, regardless of what others do to you.
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