#black

It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#coasters #humor #stories #things #those

Teenagers especially are very, very conscious about what is hip and what is lame and what is square and what is out and what is in, you know. And, I mean, I grew up right there in the middle of a black culture. And I knew dead-on what it was. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#black #conscious #culture #especially #grew

The Jewish background is not that far from the black groove. Blacks are downtrodden, Jews are downtrodden, therefore they have something in common in that affliction. Being downtrodden often makes one more empathetic and sympathetic. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#background #being #black #blacks #common

I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#better #black #groups #i #indians

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#black #black and white #quite #simple #things

In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#black #black hole #everything #hole #love

The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#actor #black #black and white #film #ford

You are a black goddess when you come out the salon. ↗

— Jenifer Lewis

#come #goddess #out #salon #you

We procured from an Indian a weasel perfectly white except the extremity of the tail which was black: great numbers of wild geese are passing to the south, but their flight is too high for us to procure any of them. ↗

— Meriwether Lewis

#black #except #extremity #flight #geese

Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#after #black #black coffee #coffee #good