All Quotes

Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of care where black women feel accountable to all the black community's children.
‐‐ Patricia Hill Collins

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.
‐‐ Audre Lorde

Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
‐‐ Barbara Smith

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.
‐‐ Audre Lorde

Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for which most of your work is done before you start.
‐‐ Ian McShane

Blackberry is a great product and really useful. But I think that Yahoo!'s future is going to be rooted in mobile apps. And we know that we need to have apps on some of the core platforms, and so iOS and Android, probably the two most important platforms for us.
‐‐ Marissa Mayer

BlackBerry required tethering for some routine operations, and for many, the only way to integrate corporate mail was to keep a PC running all the time.
‐‐ Steven Sinofsky

Blackheart Records being 25 years old represents staying power and the fact that we weren't able to get a record out through conventional means, so we had to create this record company to put out our records if we wanted to be a band that had records to give out to their fans.
‐‐ Joan Jett

Blackjack is very scientific. There's always a right answer and a wrong answer. Do you take a card, increase your bet, bet big or bet small. There's absolutely a right and wrong answer.
‐‐ Charlie Ergen

Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.
‐‐ Halle Berry

Blackness is not a monolith. We are not homogenous people; we are not all the same.
‐‐ Jesse Williams

Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.
‐‐ John A. Powell

Blacks commit murder eight times more per capita than any other group in our society. If I had put all of my police officers on Park Avenue and none in Harlem, thousands and thousands more blacks would've been killed during the eight years that I was mayor.
‐‐ Rudy Giuliani

Blacks don't square dance. If you see a black person square dancing, it is definitely the seventh sign.
‐‐ Tommy Davidson

Blacks essentially play the race card, when necessary as a counter to white privilege.
‐‐ Jonathan Coleman

Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.
‐‐ August Wilson

Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.
‐‐ J. Philippe Rushton

Blacks on prime-time TV are only portrayed as comedians - and often in no better a light than 'Amos & Andy.'
‐‐ Don Cornelius

Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.
‐‐ Dinesh D'Souza

Blacks who have not succumbed to the victim culture have been, are, and will be doing quite well - all on their own, without handouts, affirmative action, and other patronizing measures.
‐‐ Tammy Bruce

Blacks who lack a proper killing rage are merely victims.
‐‐ Bell Hooks

Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it.
‐‐ Ridley Scott

Blade Runner helped make my career. Everybody was in it. Who knew?
‐‐ Brion James

'Blade Runner' is one of my favorite films.
‐‐ J. H. Wyman

'Blade Runner' is such a unique film. How do you describe a diamond? I don't think you should ever touch it again.
‐‐ Rutger Hauer

'Blade Runner' was a comic strip. It was a comic strip! It was a very dark comic strip. Comic metaphorically.
‐‐ Ridley Scott

'Blade Runner' was one of several dystopian science-fiction films to tank in the early and middle '80s. 'Tron,' 'The Dark Crystal,' 'The Keep,' 'Labyrinth': none found a large audience.
‐‐ Richard Corliss

'Blade' was amazing; I can't imagine the character without Wesley Snipes. He just made a long, black leather trench coat look so cool.
‐‐ Kat Graham

Blair - except at the edges - was a Thatcherite. Brown, in contrast, regarded Thatcherism as something that had to be taken on board while at the same time seeking to retain as much as possible of the Labour legacy, or 'Labour values,' as he would put it.
‐‐ Martin Jacques

Blair... is accusing us of executing British soldiers. We want to tell him that we have not executed anybody. They are either killed in battle, most of them get killed because they are cowards anyway, the rest they just get captured.
‐‐ Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Blair overestimated his ability to influence U.S. decisions on Iraq.
‐‐ John Chilcot

Blair's support for the Americans should not be seen as an aberration; on the contrary, it is closely linked to the main contours of New Labour policy. This has been a government that has majored on hyperbole, but in fact, from the outset it was hugely timid and cravenly orthodox.
‐‐ Martin Jacques

Blair worshipped Thatcherism, could see little or no wrong in it, believed that that was what the country needed, thought that there was no alternative, regarded it as a legacy that had to be built on rather than rejected.
‐‐ Martin Jacques

Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.
‐‐ Anne Stevenson

Blake is damned good to steal from.
‐‐ Henry Fuseli

Blake Lively is my style icon, and she always has rocking clothes and shoes. She keeps it really simple with hair and makeup, and I try to do the same thing. Onstage, I do a little smokier, a little more contouring, but I still always want to be an approachable and real artist, so I never try to go overboard.
‐‐ Kelsea Ballerini

Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence.
‐‐ Jim Morrison

Blakes Hotel in South Kensington was a particular favourite of mine during what I affectionately think of as my Restless Years.
‐‐ Julie Burchill

Blame is for God and small children.
‐‐ Dustin Hoffman

Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.
‐‐ Nancy Friday

Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.
‐‐ Lawrence Summers

Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true.
‐‐ Delta Burke

Blanching the cloves removes the harsh and bitter bite of raw garlic.
‐‐ Yotam Ottolenghi

Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House.
‐‐ Diane Cilento

Blank paper has always inspired me.
‐‐ Daniel Handler

Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me - any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail.
‐‐ Joseph Murray

'Blasto' is a new game for Sony Playstation. It's an awesome three-dimensional game, and I play the character Blasto who's sort of a Flash Gordon barrel-chested superhero who goes to Uranus and shoots these little green alien Fascist guys. He rescues babes; he goes on wild rides.
‐‐ Phil Hartman

'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made.
‐‐ Adam McKay