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Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black. – Danish proverb	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. – Richard Milhous Nixon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We really are 15 countries, and it's really remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas, the black American in Durham -- both are certain they are the real American. – Maya Angelou	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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. – Robert A. Heinlein	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The pot calls the kettle black. – Miguel de Cervantes	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark. – Marcus Aelius Aurelius	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Senator, I am one of them. You do not seem to understand who I am. I am a black woman, the daughter of a dining-car worker ... If my life has any meaning at all, it is that those who start out as outcasts can wind up as being part of the system. – Patricia Roberts Harris	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world. – Philip Howard	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt. – Jesse Louis Jackson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow-red, yellow, brown, black and white-and we're all precious in God's sight. – Jesse Louis Jackson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. – Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. – Henry Louis Mencken	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When the tea is brought at five o'clock And all the neat curtains are drawn with care, The little black cat with bright green eyes Is suddenly purring there. – Harold Monro	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I've been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was black. – Auguste Renoir	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray. – Dr. Laura Schlessinger	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true. – Solomon Short	added by anonymous 14 years ago
...The electoral franchise has been conferred upon the Negroes in almost all the states in which slavery has been abolished, but if they come forward to vote, their lives are in danger... The same schools do not receive the children of the black and of the European. In the theaters gold cannot procure a seat for the servile race beside their former masters in the hospitals they lie apart... Not only is slavery prohibited in Ohio, but no free Negroes are allowed to enter the territory of that state or to hold property in it. – Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville	added by anonymous 14 years ago
History is not going to be kind to liberals. With their mindless programs, they've managed to do to Black Americans what slavery, Reconstruction, and rank racism found impossible destroy their family and work ethic. – Walter Williams	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice. – Deng Xiaoping	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart mark and avoid him. – Cicero	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Life here is so elemental. So real. Without the interference of civilization you can really experience things like,...silence. Silence and darkness in its purity. Right now, right outside my window all I can see is a black void. Endless darkness. It's totally exhilarating, and I feel very lucky to be here. Very, very lucky. – Andrew Schneider	added by anonymous 14 years ago
God is a philosophical black hole - the point where reason breaks down. – Kedar Joshi	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Fate presented itself to some like a chinese fan--one side black, the other side gilded with flowers. (Noli Me Tangere) – Dr. Jose P. Rizal	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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