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Blackness Quotes (page 20)

Brandy Norwood quote: "And I'm looking at him like, 'Oh my God. This is Michael..."
And I'm looking at him like, 'Oh my God. This is Michael Jackson'. I fainted, blacked out - like seriously blacked out. Brandy Norwood
Even as someone who's labeled a conservative - I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm heading up this organization in the Reagan administration - I can say that conservatives don't exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they're welcome. Clarence Thomas
David Foster Wallace quote: "Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S...."
Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride. David Foster Wallace
The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed. Mick Taylor
To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people. Alice Walker
I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish. Alice Walker
I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly. Bessie Coleman
Madonna Ciccone quote: "People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up..."
People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS. Madonna Ciccone
Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy. Barry Sonnenfeld
I like science fiction and physics, things like that. Planets being sucked into black holes, and the various vortexes that create possibility, and what happens on the other side of the black hole. To me it's the microcosmic study of the macrocosmic universe in man, and that's why I'm attracted to it. Wesley Snipes
Will Smith quote: "I love being black in America, and especially being black in..."
I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood. Will Smith
Barbara Smith quote: "One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has..."
One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female. Barbara Smith
I thought our community should have a deep dialogue to make black America better. I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better. Tavis Smiley
Stephen Carter quote: "I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to..."
I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience. Stephen Carter
When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist. Nina Simone

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