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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.

Quotes by Alanis Morissette

Drag Race' is giving visibility to our community. It's on TV and you can see RuPaul, who is a black, queer, powerful figure who has run this empire for years, and I think that's an amazing thing.

Quotes by Alaska

In the publishing sense, 'urban fantasy' does not mean 'black,' and that's pretty ironic, considering that it's a euphemism everywhere else. It would be great to get that back.

Quotes by Alaya Dawn Johnson

The trajectory of a lot of black lives in the 20th century was people moving into cities. A lot of the issue with modern urban fantasy is that it's un-diverse, and that's crazy with what we know the history of...

Quotes by Alaya Dawn Johnson

What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to...

Quotes by Albert Brooks

I know what's good for me. I can't play black or gray. I can't be a villain or anything close to one. I have to play white.

Quotes by Alan Ladd

Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up for a sense of power and prestige. That is a disservice. Magic is very colorful. Of...

Quotes by Alan Moore

Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes!

Quotes by Alan Parsons

I don't judge my effectiveness by how many words I say. I think liberals often see nuances in things... Conservatives tend to see things in black and white. It gives them an air of certainty and conviction that might make...

Quotes by Alan Colmes

The 'black rule' is that youth unemployment is, on average, double a country's unemployment rate.

Quotes by Alain Dehaze

If you remember back to some of the television we saw, Buzz and Neil on the Moon with Apollo 11. Black and white. They were bouncing around a lot. They were really bouncing on their tip toes. Quite fun to...

Quotes by Alan Bean

Last year, when we were in Mobile, Al., covering Hurricane Ivan, we heard the stories of poor people, many of them black stranded downtown because they had no way out.

Quotes by Al Roker

My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So... you're black.'

Quotes by Al Roker

I asked him if he ever hung out with black guys in high school and he said, 'Well, no. They always had these angry looks on their faces. Who wouldn't look ticked off having to deal with nitwits like him?

Quotes by Al Roker

I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.

Quotes by Al Sharpton

If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.

Quotes by Al Sharpton

We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.

Quotes by Al Sharpton

The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.

Quotes by Al Sharpton

From racial profiling and being pulled over just for 'driving while black' to this new phenomenon of killing unarmed people out of some preconceived idea of fear, our lives and our children's lives are not being valued.

Quotes by Al Sharpton

If the black vote does not come out in big numbers in the age of Ferguson and voter ID, it will empower our adversaries and enhance our marginalization.

Quotes by Al Sharpton

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does this collection say about racial conditioning in society?
One quote makes a direct, honest observation: "We're conditioned in this country to believe that if there's a problem, the black man is usually the culprit." It's presented as the speaker's own candid reflection. For more on emotional and social topics, see our Emotion page.
Is there a quote about mixed heritage and identity?
Yes - one quote speaks personally about growing up between two communities: "My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, caught between two communities." It's a genuine, personal reflection on identity.
Does the collection include anything about space or physics?
One quote shares a fascination with science fiction, mentioning "Planets being sucked into black holes, and the various vortexes that create possibility." For more on curious, mysterious topics, see our Mystery collection.
Is there a quote about music side-projects?
Yes - one quote mentions a side project called Black Light Burns, describing it as "still a labor of love" alongside a main band commitment. For quotes with more depth, see our Depth page.
What's the range of topics under "black" in this collection?
It spans quite a bit - from personal identity and social observation to science fiction and music, showing how differently the same word can be used. Explore more in our Elegance collection.

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