"Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical."
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"If you destroy a free market you create a black market."
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"Some say an army of horsemen, or infantry, A fleet of ships is the fairest thing On the face of the black earth, but I say It's what one loves."
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"The thing that you have to understand about those of us in the Black Muslim movement was that all of us believed 100 percent in the divinity of Elijah Muhammad. We believed in him. We actually believed that God, in Detroit by the way, that God had taught him and all of that. I always believed that he believed in himself. And I was shocked when I found out that he himself didn't believe it."
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"Let the black flower blossom as it may!"
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"They call me racist too just because I disagree with a President who happens to be black. You are not racists - you are patriots."
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"She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn."
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"Backward we traveled to reclaim the day Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find are altars in decay And profane words scrawled black across the sun."
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"Liberalism Has Nearly Destroyed Black America, And Now It’s Time For Black America To Return The Favor."
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"I don't suppose I can wear the flamingo tie," he said as he pulled on black socks. "It's a bit festive, given the occasion," I responded. "Can't wear it to the opera," said the Colonel, almost smiling. "Can't wear it to a funeral. Can't use it to hang myself. It's a bit useless, as ties go." I gave him a tie."
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"...the evil system of colonialism and imperialism arose and throve with the enslavement of Negroes and the trade in Negroes, and it will surely come to its end with the complete emancipation of the Black people."
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"I applied for a scholarship to Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. I knew I was good enough, but they turned me down. And it took me about six months to realize it was because I was black. I never really got over that jolt of racism at the time."
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"And when I was angry, when I was younger, I was in a cocoon. Now I'm a beautiful, black butterfly."
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"If travel has momentum and wants to stay in motion, as I mentioned earlier, then adventure has the gravitational pull of a black hole. The more you do it, the more you find a way to keep doing it."
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"Black coffee must be strong and very hot; if strong coffee does not agree with you, do not drink black coffee. And if you do not drink black coffee, do not drink any coffee at all."
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"I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won"
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"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor."
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"Nay then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables."
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"Until things are brighter.. I'm the man in black."
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"I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness."
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