Jani Allan (1952) South African columnist and broadcaster
Description of Pik Botha in Sunday Times column Face to Face.
Sunday Times
As quoted in "Nate Diaz discusses win over Conor McGregor" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg6NkqFPOyY (5 March 2016), UFC on FOX, FOX
Jani Allan (1952) South African columnist and broadcaster
Description of Pik Botha in Sunday Times column Face to Face.
Sunday Times
“They'd be no threat to me. I have a black belt in Haiku. And a black vest in the cleaners.”
Tom Robbins book Still Life with Woodpecker
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
“I've got a black-belt in crazy, and I know where you live.”
Marjorie M. Liu (1979) American writer
Source: Tiger Eye
“Max Bialystock: I'm wearing a cardboard belt!”
Mel Brooks (1926) American director, writer, actor, and producer
The Producers
“Black belt in Akihito. (Amanda)
Any other time, I'd kiss you for that. (Kyrian)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon book Night Pleasures
Source: Night Pleasures
Gordon Strachan (1957) Scottish footballer and manager
Metro Article http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/football/756336-gordon-strachans-greatest-quotes 22nd October, 2009
Richard Rodríguez (1944) American journalist and essayist
Brown : The Last Discovery of America (2003)
Context: A boy named Buddy came up beside me in the schoolyard. I don't remember what passed as prologue, but I do not forget what Buddy divulged to me: If you're white, you're all right; If you're brown, stick around; If you're black, stand back.
It was as though Buddy had taken me to a mountaintop and shown me the way things lay in the city below.
William Allingham (1824–1889) Irish man of letters and poet
Lovely Mary Donnelly; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).