Black Exploitation Quotes

#1. About the time I was 7, I got really into black-exploitation films, so I made my own Wonder Woman, but I made her black.

Mark Bradford

#2. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills.

Tom DeLay

#3. We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifices. Capitalism was built on the exploitation of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor, both black and white, both here and abroad.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#4. The world wishes to be deceived.

Sebastian Franck

#5. There is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions, stress, and pain of constant exploitation and oppression.

Bell Hooks

#6. Illegal immigrants are beginning to comprise a black market class of workers in our society, jeopardizing the financial health of companies which play by the rules, while themselves vulnerable to the exploitation by those willing to take advantage of their illegal status.

Spencer Bachus

#7. Secretary Clinton is tough, smart, and understands better than any candidate the challenges that parents are talking about around dinner tables and keeping families up at night.

Thomas Perez

#8. The Supreme Leader's voice was flat. "You have compassion for her." "No - never. Compassion? For an enemy of the Order?" "I perceive the problem," Snoke intoned. "It isn't her strength that is making you fail. It's your weakness." The rebuke hurt, but Ren didn't show it.

Alan Dean Foster

#9. If we look at the black record of mass murder, exploitation, and tyranny levied on society by governments over the ages, we need not be loath to abandon the Leviathan State and ... try freedom.

Murray Rothbard

#10. How grimy did God get when He reached down to clean you up? How grimy are you willing to get in order to be an 'imitator of God'?

Max Lucado

#11. Time's a funny thing, bending, warping, stretching, and compressing, all depending on perspective.

Lisa Genova

#12. The mythology of black women as promiscuous was important to maintaining the profitable exploitation of slave society. In freedom, it remained important as a means of racial and gender control.

Melissa V. Harris-Perry

#13. Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.

Oliver Tambo

#14. Grief is a hone to a hard mind.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#15. I wonder, James, whether it is not too easy for a rich man to despise money

Patrick O'Brian

#16. Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.

Leo Tolstoy

#17. What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.

Maxim Gorky

#18. Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.

Iris Dement

#19. Saeed quickly found employment at a Banana Republic, where he would sell to urban sophisticates the black turtleneck of the season, in a shop whose name was synonymous with colonial exploitation and the rapacious ruin of the third world.

Kiran Desai

#20. For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.

Peace Pilgrim