Top 33 Famous Black Quotes

#1. Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it's global. He puts his colossal foot on the vulnerable necks of poor people, and as a result of that, we don't have a balanced conversation.

Michael Eric Dyson

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#2. I grew up being the girl who would always tune in to watch famous people talk about their careers, how they handled scandals and mega fame. I'm trying to pick up tips.

Rebecca Black

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#3. I'd rather be happy than right any day - from Martin Little, Resurrected

Ella Medler

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#4. On one occasion, someone asked a famous American musician, Ben Harper, this question: "We've heard you now have a new drummer in your band. Tell me something: is he black?" And Harper replied: "I don't know, I've never asked him.

Mia Couto

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#5. The most famous case was the so-called Bradley effect: in 1982, California voters told exit pollsters they had elected a black governor, Tom Bradley, by a significant margin, but in the privacy of the ballot box they had actually given his white opponent a narrow victory.

Anonymous

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#6. It's odd to think we might have been Sun, moon and stars unto each other; Only I turned down one little street As you went up another.

Fannie Heaslip Lea

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#7. I actually don't know anyone who wants to be famous for fame's sake, at least not anyone I respect. But you need to have a certain amount of power in order to be able to do what you want.

Michael Ian Black

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#8. Farren was well aware of whom he was talking about, and that was the first thing on her to-do list: finding out what the hell was up with Robin. "We

Nako

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#9. I just trust people and they sense everything's gonna be alright.

Gregory Corso

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#10. Victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed.

Robert Kennedy

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#11. E all do it. We talk about people we don't like until they become famous. Then we love 'em.

Daniel Black

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#12. Circumstances change everything.

Jennifer Marie Brissett

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#13. Party of the Century by Deborah Davis, about Truman Capote's famous Black and White Ball. Capote by Gerald Clarke. Truman Capote by George Plimpton. Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. by Sam Wasson. Slim, the memoir of Slim Keith. And The Sisters by David Grafton, about Babe Paley and her sisters.

Melanie Benjamin

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#14. Da5id Meier, supreme hacker overlord, founding father of the Metaverse protocol, creator and proprietor of the world-famous Black Sun, has just suffered a system crash. He's been thrown out of his own bar by his own daemons.

Neal Stephenson

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#15. Black Pearl was the most famous courtesan of all. "She's descended from the dragons, that one," the woman had told Cat. "The first Black Pearl was a pirate queen.

George R R Martin

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#16. It is quite true that women like courage, and that boldness often goes a long way; but it is questionable whether with high-bred natures a subdued, quiet, and delicate manner does not go still further.

Richard Jefferies

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#17. There is no shortage of well-known pirates, including: Henry Morgan, Captain Kidd, Blackbeard, Blue beard, Yellowbeard, and Yellow beard with Black Roots, who surmised that, if blondes have more fun, then blond pirates must have a heck of a lot more fun.

Cuthbert Soup

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#18. It is okay to cut your wife's throat as long as you are rich, famous - and black.

Jeff Cooper

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#19. The rush lifts him up, his endorphins are bubbling, and afterward he will remember thinking: "How can anyone possibly experience this without thinking he's a god?

Fredrik Backman

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#20. The sights of infinity can be too strong. They can scorch the soul. It's best to take infinity on a little at a time.

Frederick Lenz

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#21. I would spend my life on the road logging hundreds of thousands of miles and my story was always the same. . . man comes to town, detonates; man leaves town and drives off into the evening; fade to black. Just the way I like it.

Bruce Springsteen

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#22. It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That's the level where I want to go.

Frank Black

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#23. Irony is the hardest addiction of all. Forget heroin. Just try giving up irony, the deep-down need to mean two things at once, to be in two places at once, not to be there for the catastrophe of a fixed meaning.

Edward St. Aubyn

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#24. It's relatively easy to act nice and normal in front of a crowd, or in public. The tricky part is doing it in private.

Robert Black

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#25. Slowly the red dawn broke over the endless plain of black grass that gradually turned to the famous Kentucky blue as the sun ironed out the shadows.

Ian Fleming

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#26. When I go to Atlanta, I'm famous. I can get on a flight, anything. Because they're watching every show, and if you're black, you famous.

Bresha Webb

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#27. Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?

Chris Rock

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#28. If it's not duplicatable and scalable, it's not worth doing.

Clay Clark

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#29. The hallmark of good science is the testing of a plausible hypothesis that is then either supported or rejected by the evidence.

Willie Soon

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#30. When I was younger, I remember there was a really famous book, and it was called 'The People Could Fly.' And so this idea of, kind of like, black characters kind of jumping into space and kind of the challenge that they presented to gravity I thought was really interesting.

Rashid Johnson

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#31. I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.

Al Alvarez

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#32. We carry adolescence around in our bodies all our lives. We get through the Car Crash Age alive and cruise through our early twenties as cool dudes, wily, dashing, winsome ... shooting baskets, the breeze, the moon, and then we try to become caring men, good husbands, great fathers, good citizens.

Garrison Keillor

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#33. How can old wounds heal while maggots linger so richly?

Kazuo Ishiguro

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