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«There are not many males, black or white, who wish to get involved with a woman who's committed to her own development»
Author: Eleanor Holmes Norton
| About:
Men and Women,
Relationships
| Keywords:
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«Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.»
«The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness»
«People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.»
«The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.»
Author: Alice Walker
| About:
Animals,
Mankind
| Keywords:
animals, Animal World, black, black people, Black woman, humans, reasons, The Animals, white, white woman
«I wasn't always black... There was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.»
«The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky--seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.»
«Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.»
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
(Writer)
| About:
Theology
| Keywords:
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«Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bog-gglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.The argument goes something like this: `I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, `for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'`But,' says Man, `The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'`Oh dear,' says God, `I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic.`Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and getshimself killed on the next zebra crossing.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| About:
Humor
| Keywords:
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«I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.»
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