From "Auditorium"
Album The Ecstatic
"The conscience of South Africa talks about her country's new racial order" (1998) by Dwight Garner
“Yeah, Uh-huh you know what it is,(black and yellow, black and yellow, black and yellow)”
Black and Yellow, written by Wiz Khalifa, Mikkel Eriksen, Tor Hermansen
Studio Albums, Rolling Papers (2011)
Misattributed
Source: Margaret Mead, quoted in "Growing Old in America: An Introduction with Margaret Mead" by Grace Hechinger, Family Circle (1977-07-26), p. 27.
Attributed to Mead in Mead Childhood Education Vol. 54 (1977) by Association for Childhood Education International, p. 126
1970s
TIME magazine Vol. 149, No. 2 (13 January 1997) http://web.archive.org/web/20000619011644/http://www.time.com/time/gates/gates2.html
1990s
2000s
Context: No matter who you are, engaging in the quest to discover where and how things began tends to induce emotional fervor—as if knowing the beginning bestows upon you some form of fellowship with, or perhaps governance over, all that comes later. So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe: knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going.
“I don't know why black skin may not cover a true heart as well as a white one.”
To a neighbor (1856), as quoted in A Personal History of Ulysses S. Grant https://books.google.com/books?id=0G1LAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA155&dq=%22may+not+cover+a+true+heart+as+well+as+a%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=uZngVIKtGsicNqz1gYgB&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false (1868), by Albert Deane Richardson, Hartford, Connecticut: American Publishing Company, p. 155. According to some other sources, he had also used this phrase in a letter to Robert E. Lee (General of the Confederacy).
1850s
Epode, lines 1-4
The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616), The Forest
“Do you know what black stripe is?”
he said. “It’s a warning. It’s nature’s way of telling us what a bad idea it is to rely too much on one plant.”
Source: Windswept (2015), Chapter 22 (p. 287)
