Black Betty Quotes

#1. Ruby," Chubs said. Then again, louder. "Ruby! Oh, for the love of ... we were talking about Black Betty, not your Orange ass.

Alexandra Bracken

#2. Yet Betty would learn among the black Muslims that any black person clever or lucky enough to reach adulthood must choose between slumber and strugle.

Russell J. Rickford

#3. When I grew up, you wanted to look like Marlene Dietrich, Betty Grable. Fortunately, I didn't know that I really wanted to look like Lena Horne. When I grew up ... black stars were stigmatized. Nobody wanted to look like Lena Horne.

Dorian Corey

#4. Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role.

Confucius

#5. Maybe women sometimes wish that a man would come along and buy them.

Allison Anders

#6. There comes a time in life when you know what you like and have to make up your mind to like what you know, or at least have begun to know. In other words, you must determine in what direction your knowledge is leading, thus far.

Vincent Price

#7. My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.

Sam Palladio

#8. Betty's a good Muslim woman and wife. I don't imagine many other women might put up with the way I am. Awakening this brainwashed black man and telling this arrogant, devilish white man the truth about himself, Betty understands, is a full-time job

Malcolm X

#9. I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.

Jessica Savitch

#10. Sometimes when you had nothing at all and it was raining and you were alone in the flat, it was wonderful to know that you could have something even though it was only a cup of black and bitter coffee.

Betty Smith

#11. Only through our positive thinking and actions do we become strong. Even the weakest person in the world can become the strongest in their own mind.

David Estes

#12. So many catastrophes in love are only accidents of egotism.

Hector Bianciotti

#13. I tend to gravitate toward the realm of superstition (cures and such) and odd scientific facts (like bioluminescent shrimp and fistulated cows). I like the intimacy that I often find in the grotesque.

Anna Journey

#14. I was admittedly comfortable with Iman Cosmetics being identified as a beauty brand that filled the gap for black women because it was deeply personal for me.

Iman

#15. The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.

Betty Friedan

#16. He kept the outside world at bay by keeping the inside world at hand.

Mitch Albom

#17. This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is scared of something. He doesn't have confidence in himself or else he doesn't believe in what he's doing.

Betty Carter

#18. If you're not careful, you're going to run into someone angrier than you.

Jennifer Niven