College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.


Ilyasah Shabazz

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Everyone wants me to be this political person... I'm not Malcolm X.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought...
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It is our family's hope that the true legacy and context of Malcolm X's life continues to be...
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My mother witnessed the martyrdom of her husband, Hajj Malik Shabazz, Malcolm X, on Sunday, February...
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After graduating high school, Betty attended the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Birming...
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My mother persevered through much adversity because she possessed faith in God, self-respect, and an...
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I don't know that there is a, quote, 'hip-hop lifestyle.' I think the music responds to ...
ILYASAH SHABAZZ
When images are in black and white, they seem timeless. When you see Carrie Otis in an ad from 1989 ...
PAUL MARCIANO
I actually had kind of one of those crazy experiences where when I hit, it was black out excruciatin...
BROOKE BURNS
In the beginning it was all black and white.
MAUREEN O'HARA
I actually didn't really go to college. I enrolled and never showed up. Being on a college campu...
ADAM RODRIGUEZ
When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd...
PETER COYOTE
I've never tried to run away from my race. I was born a black man. You know that in your bones a...
EDWARD BROOKE
The difference between the National Football League and college is this: In college, you are a broke...
DEANGELO WILLIAMS
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
THEODOR ADORNO
To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color ...
X. J. KENNEDY
Never mind what you've heard. Halle Berry was not the first black woman to win an Academy Award ...
JEFFREY KLUGER
The difference between pizza and your opinion is that I actually asked for pizza.
ANONYMOUS
White magic or black, it doesn’t make a difference. Natural and artificial? Obsolete distinctions
DAVID PORUSH
The choice in politics isn't usually between black and white. It's between two horrible shades of gr...
LORD THORNEYCROFT
The difference between a bland tomato and great one is immense, much like the difference between a s...
YOTAM OTTOLENGHI
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ZACHARY KNIGHTON
It turned into this real black-white situation between the police. All the white officers on one sid...
DULCIE SCOTT
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MAXWELL MALTZ
I actually got hurt in a steel factory in 1985 and so that changed my life. I went to a junior colle...
JOHN CORBETT
The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what wa...
KHALED HOSSEINI
How could 30 years be the blink-of-the-eye it felt? It was the difference between black-and-white fo...
ALI SMITH
I'm excited about it. One of the great things about coaching is there's a difference between potenti...
JOE PHILBIN
When I go around and I talk to young black kids, I really stress education. We've got this thing goi...
CHARLES BARKLEY
Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Both read the Bible day and night, But thou read'st black where I read white
WILLIAM BLAKE
She teetered between stillness and complete madness. There was no grey, there was no black and white...
LAUREN VALENCIA
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LARRY STEVENS
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KELLY JONES
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ZAKK WYLDE
I always give the example, if you turn on the radio today, black radio, Lenny Kravitz is not black. ...
SPIKE LEE
Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and whit...
GUNTER GRASS
Life is not just black and white, there are a million shades in between.
HANIF HASSAN BARBHUIYA
I was raised to understand and know the difference between right and wrong.
CURT SCHILLING
Diversity doesn't mean black and white only.
HENRY LOUIS GATES
Most makeup campaigns are not in black and white.
CARINE ROITFELD
I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.
BENICIO DEL TORO
In Harlem, I got all my black friends. But when I go downtown, I got black, white, Asian, Indian fri...
ASAP ROCKY
Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listeni...
ANNETTE FUNICELLO
Loo, life is black and white. You don't know what's good for you, because you don't see the black an...
C. JOYBELL C.
Other than Disneyland, it was my first exposure to an imaginative design like that. I got the idea f...
DAVE BALDWIN
She was the blackest white woman in the world. She was a white woman passing for black in a black wo...
LARRY LESTER
The thing that bothered me when I was in college was that I saw myself rejecting the way of life tha...
CLARENCE THOMAS
The eye should learn to listen before it looks.
ROBERT FRANK
Mortals. Everything is so black and white to you.
KAMI GARCIA
Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN
I'd like to see more crossover between white and black music. That's something I've been...
DARYL HALL
And I realized that there's a big difference between deciding to leave and knowing where to go.
ROBYN SCHNEIDER
On 'Undeclared,' I was actually the only person who had gone to college. Here we are doing t...
CARLA GALLO
I have friends that match underwear to what they wear. They like the fact that they aren't just blac...
ERIC TOMLINSON
I feel like my life experience is that of an outsider. Let me explain: my parents are from Panama, a...
J. AUGUST RICHARDS
Things are always either black or white. The grey in between is only a confusion.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA
Black and white thinking forces a choice between pretending we know everything and believing we know...
TERENCE T. GORSKI
There is a huge difference between thinking we know something and actually knowing something.
ERALDO BANOVAC
I never realised before how much of a jurist I am. I try to bring everything back to the basics, to ...
DANNY MEKIć
I always thought white people.were white because they stood in the cold to long, and froze. And blac...
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS
NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale o...
JIM HENSON
I was kind of torn between playing music or playing college football. I was going to college and rea...
BRANTLEY GILBERT
I watched a black and white TV for so long, so when I got a color TV I picked the red one.
ANONYMOUS
I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I had spent my whole life feeling homesick. The only difference between the two of us was that I did...
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The whole series is black-and-white, so when I went to shoot one of the women I only had black-and-w...
HELMUT NEWTON
Life is not black and white; there is some gray nuance to it.
PILOU ASBAEK
If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
JOHN WAYNE
Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.
DORIS LESSING
Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can.
JACK ANTONOFF
Celluloid will be the next decade's black and white.
DANNY BOYLE
Law in Ukraine is not black and white; it is shades of gray.
BRANDON WEBB
If you look beyond the lies, then you will see the truth.
Remember: Just because it's black and...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
The very first video experience I had was in high school. They brought a black-and-white closed-circ...
BILL VIOLA
I said no. My original vision was that the photos would be black and white.
CINDY AILLAUD
I said no. My original vision was that the photos would be black and white.
CINDY LOU AILLAUD
I learned the major difference between college and pro football. In the pros, you're up against ...
BURGESS OWENS
It's an enjoyable experience to make a difference, ... They [volunteers] are actually getting dirty....
CHRIS ALLEN
We didn't care if you were white, black, green, yellow or polka-dotted. We just wanted to know where...
BOBBY SEALE
When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was ac...
MICHAEL IRONSIDE
Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate...
EDEN AHBEZ
There's an enormous difference between being a critic and a reviewer. The reviewer reacts to the exp...
CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT
There's a difference between hitting putts there and actually getting out and playing, so I'm surpri...
BRADLEY DREDGE
As much as I think it is necessary and desirable for white people to have an expanded view of the bl...
MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY
In music, the Specials brought a city, Coventry, bombed out for a second time and riven with racism,...
MELVYN BRAGG
I have visited some places where the differences between black and white are not as profound as they...
MONTEL WILLIAMS
That space between the white lines, that's my office. That's where I conduct my business.
EARLY WYNN
At one point, I was hell-bent on being a Disney animator, and sort of got over that in college and w...
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