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For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.
Alanis Morissette

Time, Diet, Coffee

I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are never black and white, things are very much shades of grey.
Brian Molko

Desire, White, Attraction

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

History, Book, Story

There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.
Mac Davis

Morning, Old, Chance

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
Harrison Ford

Book, After, Old

For far too long we've allowed the other side to paint us as racist, as sexist, inhumane war mongers - well, today as a conservative black Republican and former solider, I'm here to set that record straight.
Allen West

War, Today, Long

In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity... And here, most of the saints are black.
Henry Louis Gates

Before, Here, Europe

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
Edward Abbey

Long, Free, Flowers

Another Black Label motto. That's what I think life is. It's just another bridge to cross. You ask no questions. Whatever work it is you gotta do, you gotta go over it, under it, through it, around it, to do it.
Zakk Wylde

Life, Work, Through

Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.
Marty Meehan

Work, History, Lies

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.
June Jordan

Life, Love, Respect

Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.
Augustus Hare

Good, Nothing, May

I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.
Chris Rock

History, School, Kids

South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white.
Thabo Mbeki

Live, Africa, White

When I was a kid, I was following black soul music.
Robert Plant

Music, Soul, Kid

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
Toni Morrison

Art, Serious, Tolerance

I was wearing black clothes almost from the beginning. I feel comfortable in black. I felt like black looked good onstage, that it was attractive, so I started wearing it all the time.
Johnny Cash

Time, Good, Beginning

I don't know why we work, my husband and I. We just do. We are black and white - yin and yang.
Heidi Klum

Work, Husband, Why

That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It's by my character.
Pam Grier

Character, Judge, Saying

I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.
Dennis Rodman

Women, Makes, Unhappy

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.
Audre Lorde

Racism, Whatever, Write

In the early days, we just wore black onstage. Very bold, my dear. Then we introduced white, for variety, and it simply grew and grew.
Freddie Mercury

Days, Simply, Early

They call me racist too just because I disagree with a President who happens to be black. You are not racists - you are patriots.
Herman Cain

President, Happens, Call

In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes you white.
Henry Louis Gates

America, Makes, Almost

I wasn't cocky, just confident; I went to an all black school, a white kid.
Shia LaBeouf

School, Kid, White

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.
Audre Lorde

Women, Men, Close

Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think that's wrong. I think we all need someone.
Boris Kodjoe

Someone, Woman, Sometimes

There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.
Audre Lorde

Teacher, Mother, Yourself

However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.
Frantz Fanon

May, Destiny, Accept

It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.
Yuri Milner

Human, Hard, Understand

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