Prominent Black Quotes

#1. It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed in the late 60s when black studies started. You'd get one here and one there and one here, like Johnny Appleseed.

Henry Louis Gates

#2. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members. [Explaining rationale for using prominent black leaders to advocate birth control and abortion]

Margaret Sanger

#3. Capping the size of American banks won't eliminate the needs of big businesses; it will force them to turn to foreign banks that won't face the same restrictions.

Jamie Dimon

#4. God is a snooker player, that's why all the planets are turning!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom.

Malcolm X

#6. I give you a week, maybe two, before you're driven to bite someone."
"I don't know how to ... to bite or drink! But you could teach me."
"And what could you possibly do in return?" Lothaire waved a negligent hand. "Play football for me? Break in my jeans really well?

Kresley Cole

#7. I must protest that I would never seek foreign conflicts just to go over domestic difficulties; that would be frivolous. I was speaking of conflicts that we could not avoid, even though we do not seek them.

Otto Von Bismarck

#8. The greatest obligation of one's life is to know one's personal legend

Paulo Coelho

#9. Add it all up, and some prominent Obama supporters are now saying that it paints a picture of an opposition driven, in part, by a refusal to accept a black President.

Dan Harris

#10. Joseph Beringer ... dances around behind me singing some poorly rhymed and slightly dirty song about my [racing] odds at my skirts.
'I don't even wear skirts,' I snap at him.
'Especially,' he says, 'in my daydreams.

Maggie Stiefvater

#11. I was overlooked long before anyone knew who I was.

Paul Desmond

#12. Love more to live more.

Debasish Mridha