Top 17 Quotes About Knowing Black History
#1. You always romanticize the past as soon as the future begins to frighten you.
Rick Remender
#2. The real virtue is not to be free from desires but to be content with what you have.
Abhijit Naskar
#3. You're never going to be able to delve into the character traits of a Michelle Obama or Hillary Clinton.
Robin Wright
#5. Prior to that, I had associated this music with older people, like my father.
Benny Green
#7. It's an incredible education [for the movie J. Edgar Hoover] . It was like I did a college course on J. Edgar Hoover but not knowing and understanding the history and reading the books, but understanding what motivated this man was the most fascinating part of the research.
Dustin Lance Black
#8. I'm a very soft-spoken person. I don't throw furniture. I don't throw tantrums.
Jennifer Yuh Nelson
#9. I am more and more convinced that true revolutionaries must perceive the revolution, because of its creative and liberating nature, as an act of love. For me, the revolution, which is not possible without a theory of revolution - and therefore science - is not irreconcilable with love.
Che Guevera
#10. We eat pretty healthy foods, and I've taught my kids since they were little about knocking out trans fats.
Victoria Osteen
#11. Omnipotence is most omnipotent when one does nothing!
Stanislaw Lem
#12. Isn't the best way to save face to keep the lower part shut?
Steven Wright
#13. Pvt. Robert Fruling said he spent two and a half days at Pointe-du-Hoc, all of it crawling on his stomach. He returned on the twenty-fifth anniversary of D-Day "to see what the place looked like standing up" (Louis Lisko interview, EC).
Stephen E. Ambrose
#14. The more you hesitate to do an important task, the more urgent it becomes.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#15. They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
Idina Menzel
#16. Being called Black in America is the struggle to keep us moving and breathing over bloody water. Being a Nig**r or [Ni**a] without the context of history is like drowning in bloody water, dragging down those yet knowing to swim.
Chuck D
#17. Making food a commodity to be owned was one of the great innovations of our culture. No other culture in history has ever put food under lock and key - and putting it there is the cornerstone of our economy, for if the food wasn't under lock and key, who would work?
Daniel Quinn
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