#lack

Love is a word, another kind of open. As the diamond comes into a knot of flame I am Black because I come from the earth's inside take my word for jewel in the open light. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#black-poet #essayist #feminist #ny-laureate #teacher

Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#i #illinois #less #percent #population

Never Be Still unless you're resting. If you're not at rest, you should be taking action. ↗

— Brian A. Brown

#black #brian-a-brown #brian-c-brown #inspiration #inspirational

I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color. ↗

— Gary Ross

#been #black #black and white #color #dream

The establishment wonders why we can't get more of the black vote. It's because it's not doing the things necessary to establish a deeper relationship with the black community. Most black people don't think alike. Most black people just vote alike. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#because #black #black community #community #deeper

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#improbable #integrity #kind #lacks #merely

Monofilament is what you use to go fishing. The line on your fishing rod is probably going to be black. You get to the end of the line and you tie on this clear plastic, thin thread called monofilament. ↗

— John Badham

#called #clear #end #fishing #get

Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#ask #capitalist #capitalist society #freedom #how

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage. ↗

— Carl Bernstein

#contempt #culture #disinformation #form #garbage

It was when I was in a police cell at the C.I.D. (Central Intelligence Division) headquarters in Lagos; the cell I was in named "The Kalakuta Republic" by the prisoners. I found out when I went to East Africa that "Kalakuta" is a Swahili word that means "rascal." So if rascality is going to get us what we want, we will use it; because we are dealing with corrupt people, we have to be rascally with them. ↗

— Fela Anikulapo Kuti

#fela-anikulapo-kuti #prison #rascal #intelligence