"I have a second-degree black belt in Okinawan kobudo weapons training."
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"But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is. If you awaken from this illusion, and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death - or shall I say, death implies life - you can conceive yourself."
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"I was only sitting here in my white study with the awful black words pushing me around."
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"So I won't hang around in my hospital shift, repeating The Black Mass and all of it. I say Live, Live because of the sun, the dream, the excitable gift."
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"Despite my asbestos gloves, the cough is filling me with black, and a red powder seeps through my veins."
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"My mixed-race background made me a broad person, able to relate to different cultures. But any woman of colour, even a mixed colour, is seen as black in America. So that's how I regard myself."
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"Listen, Michael Jackson is really funny. To have time to spend with him and actually be around him, he's not what....people think he is. Michael Jackson's like a black belt too, so he will kick your ass if you say something about him." In disbelief the interviewer replied "No, really?" to which Will said, "Yes, Michael Jackson kicked over my head!"
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"But pearls are fair; and the old saying is: Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes."
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"We know the road of lack of recognition, of people telling us that we can't headline a movie because black women don't translate overseas, that every time we try to break the glass ceiling, people say no, people push back. And it's everything that people don't see out there."
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"Black care rarely sits behind the rider whose pace is fast enough."
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"I remember Marvin Gaye used to sing to me, He had me feelin' like black was the thing to be."
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"Anton brings the camera. I'll bring a tuba, wear black, not shave, and take us to a burned-down Chinese restaurant. (On being photographed by his longtime photo collaborator Anton Corbijn)"
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"In terms of black music - the only music that we can call our own, that was really born here - I don't think a lot has been done to chronicle the relations between American history and where black music fits in."
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"It's hard for a black man to raise a family."
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"Jealousy can open the blood, it can make black roses."
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"Bright beads of red are rising through the ink, Hearts-blood bubbles smearing out into the black stream"
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"Just as with cars, it's critical to know the fuel efficiency of black holes."
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"Mortals. Everything is so black and white to you."
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"To me, entertainment is really the new plantation. It's the new sugar, the new cotton, that black people work for somebody else to be richer than them."
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"I'm not angry. And I don't like the thing of the 'angry black woman,' either."
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