#lack

Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time. ↗

— LaToya Jackson

#believe #black #book #bother #difficult

After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that. ↗

— Reggie Jackson

#baseball #baseball history #black #history #i

I'm useless at staring at a piece of white paper. But if you put a piece of white paper with a black line on it in front of me, I'll say no that black line should be red and it should go this way or that way. ↗

— Marc Jacobs

#front #go #his way #i #line

I'm an action player. I like to be aggressive. I don't like to be on the run. I like to feel like I have the fates in my hands and that through my skill or lack thereof I control my fate. ↗

— Eugene Jarvis

#aggressive #control #fate #fates #feel

So when you enjoy the beats, the rock music - maybe even toned down with an orchestra - you are enjoying the spirit of the black race. And that's what I emphasize to the students. ↗

— Warren Jeffs

#black #down #emphasize #enjoy #enjoying

And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here. ↗

— Waylon Jennings

#because #black #country #down #everything

China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I have a responsibility to write about it as I see it. ↗

— Ma Jian

#china #completely #i #i see #lacking

I was inspired by Colin Farrell in the fact that he's Irish and has freckles but with black hair. I'm a bunch of different things, Irish, Polish, Native American, and French, but I wanted to tap into that Irish side and be freckle-y with black hair, so that's what I did. ↗

— JoJo

#black #bunch #colin #did #different

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#came #color #date #decided #definition

In the late '70s, I had a band - the David Johansen band, for lack of a better name - and I started collecting, not records, but tapes from people I knew who had jump-blues records. ↗

— David Johansen

#better #collecting #david #had #i