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Letter "B" » black person
«If a monkey, a black dog, or a woman passes in front of a praying person, his prayer is nullified»
«I was the angriest little person imaginable. I woke up with a frown every morning. I barely talked, wore black all the time and had some serious teenage rebellion years.»
Author: Holly Marie Combs
(Actress)
| Keywords:
angriest, barely, black person, frown, imaginable, I Woke Up, rebellion, talked, teenage, woke, wore
«The divorced person is like a man with a black patch over one eye: He looks rather dashing but the fact is that he has been through a maiming experience.»
Author: Jo Coudert
| About:
Divorce,
Experience
| Keywords:
black person, dashed, dashing, divorced, maiming, maims, patch
«I had explained that a woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan»
Author: Mary Daly
| About:
Equality
| Keywords:
black person, comparable, comparable to, demanding, explained, Klan, Ku Klux Klan
«It is a sort of waking dream, which, though a person be otherwise in sound health, makes him feel symptoms of every disease; and, though innocent, yet fills his mind with the blackest horrors of guilt»
Author: William Heberden
| About:
Dreams
| Keywords:
blackest, black person, fills, guilt, horrors, innocent, of sound mind, symptoms, waking
«White people scare the crap out of me. ? I have never been attacked by a black person, never been evicted by a black person, never had my security deposit ripped off by a black landlord, never had a black landlord ? never been pulled over by a black cop, never been sold a lemon by a black car salesman, never seen a black car salesman, never had a black person deny me a bank loan, never had a black person bury my movie, and I've never heard a black person say: We're going to eliminate ten thousand jobs here - have a nice day!»
Author: Michael Moore
(Author, Film Director)
| Keywords:
attacked, bank loan, black person, bury, crap, deposit, eliminate, Have a Nice Day, job security, landlord, Landlords, pulled, pull off, ripped, rip off, salesman, scare, security deposit, sell off, sold, ten thousand, The Landlord
«I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.»
«A child born to a black mother in a state like Mississippi...has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.»
Author: Tiger Woods
(Golfer)
| About:
America and Americans,
Equality,
Goals
| Keywords:
black person, in the United States, Mississippi, wealthiest
«During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people, I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons li»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| Keywords:
African, Africans, black people, black person, dedicated, democratic, domination, fought, The Domination
«I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
absurdity, at first sight, bargain, beforehand, black person, brown, imagined, locks, raven, ravens, struck, The Bargain, The Raven, The Ravens
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