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In the sense that I also try to reflect the fullness of the black experience, I'm very much a jazz poet. — Jayne Cortez

Handle your tools without mittens. — Benjamin Franklin

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

The path to mastery involves being a white-belter till it becomes black from use. — Malti Bhojwani

A poor white woman from the South is different than a poor black woman from the South, and has a completely different experience. — Bryan Fuller

A good leader gets people to follow him because they want to, not because he makes them. — Tony Dungy

Black and white can show how something is. Color adds how it is, imbued with temperatures and humidities of experience. — Peter Schjeldahl

Having a white parent undoubtedly makes for a different childhood experience than having two black parents. — Melissa Harris-Perry

Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience. — August Wilson

I write for myself, and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there. — August Wilson

I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition
about what we can endure, dream, fail at and survive. — Maya Angelou

We are one of the last heavy metal bands. Iron Maiden has always been unique. — Adrian Smith

You need to prepare the child you have for the world that exists. — Hanna Rosin

No one goes unaffected by the aftereffects of war. How we embrace this truth shall determine our path into the future. — Lawrence Winters

The Pretty Committee:
the only thing harder than
getting in, is staying in. — Lisi Harrison

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. — Joseph Campbell

In my experience, as a young black artist, you have to fulfill an archetype, or be a token - and I was unwilling to do that. — Solange Knowles

She's not yours, dipshit. She's MINE. — Katy Evans

I approximated the Black Friday experience at home by hurling myself into a wall a number of times and then ordering online. — Kumail Nanjiani

There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in America. — August Wilson

He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence. — Virginia Woolf

And realizing there is no such thing as the Black experience. Time and events allow for change on both sides. — Alice Childress

We seek no wider war. — William P. Bundy

My worst hair experience was when I was trying to relax my hair and my grandmother did it. It went all straight and I looked like a black Bee Gee. — Jamie Foxx

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. — Blaise Pascal

I can tell you from personal experience it gets a little tiring having to make the rounds on cable shows to explain 'what's up with black folks.' — John Ridley

I can imagine no more successful and productive form of manufacture than that of making mountains out of molehills. — G.K. Chesterton

Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language. — Meister Eckhart

Love yourself.
Be true to yourself. — Lailah Gifty Akita

With girls I get no respect. A belly dancer told me I turned her stomach. — Rodney Dangerfield