Oprah Winfrey Quotes, Responsibility Quotes, Black Quotes

I really feel a sense of responsibility first as a creation of a force that I call God, that's bigger than myself. And because I'm black, I feel the responsibility to that. I feel the responsibility to my womanness. But more importantly, I feel a responsibility to my humanness.

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Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.

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I am a product of every other black woman before me who has done or said anything worthwhile. Recognizing that I am part of history is what allows me to soar.

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I'm black, and black don't crack. It does droop.

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Another head - and a black alpaca jacket and a serviette this time - to tell us coffee is ready. Not before it is time, too.

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The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

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Fashion may renew itself every six months but one thing remains the same: bouncers always wear black.

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I'm nothing you can catch now. I am black powder, I am singe, I am the bomb that bursts the night.

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Today we reject the notion of equality between a regime that belongs to the democratic world - even if it is conservative and disagreeable - and a totalitarian dictatorship, whether its colors are black, red, or green. This is why we will never again say that Chamberlain is no better than Hitler, Roosevelt no better than Stalin, and Nixon no better than Mao Zedong, even if we do condemn Roosevelt for Yalta, Chamberlain for Munich, and Nixon for Watergate.

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No woman on this whole earth can please me and cook for me and socialise and talk to me like my American black woman.

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There is not a black America and a white America; a Latino America, an Asian America. There is the United States of America.

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When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.

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That hour o' night's black arch the keystane.

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There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.

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Nay then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables.

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I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.

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I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.

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PICKANINNY, n. The young of the "Procyanthropos", or "Americanus dominans". It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.

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I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET. Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.

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If, in [Federal Housing Administration] application, black folks were excluded from it, then you have to override that by going after those discriminatory practices.

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