“[…] black folks kill more black folks than the KKK ever did.”
Michael Nutter (1957) American mayor
At an address on February, 2013 at the Community College of Philadelphia, City Journal, Spring 2013, vol. 23, no. 2 http://www.city-journal.org/2013/23_2_michael-nutter.html
Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet
Source: The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (1857), Ch. 5
“Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.”
H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) American author
“The world is beautiful outside: white, green, and red; but inside it is black and dark as death.”
Walther von der Vogelweide (1170–1230) Middle High German lyric poet
Diu welt ist ûzen schoene wîz grüen unde rôt
und innân swarzer varwe vinster sam der tôt.
"Owe war sint verswunden alliu mîniu jâr", line 37; translation from George Fenwick Jones Walther von der Vogelweide (New York: Twayne, 1968) p. 136.
“More black than ash-buds in the front of March.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate
The Gardener's Daughter, line 28, from Poems (1842)
Tiger Woods (1975) American professional golfer
Tiger Woods,ref; St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture by D. Byron Painter http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419201328
“Blacks are six times more likely than whites to be victims of homicides.”
Warren Farrell book The Myth of Male Power
Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex, p. 214.
Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) French painter
Quote of Camille Pissarro, in a letter, Paris, 31 May, 1887, to his son Lucien; in Camille Pissarro - Letters to His Son Lucien ed. John Rewald, with assistance of Lucien Pissarro; from the unpublished French letters; transl. Lionel Abel; Pantheon Books Inc. New York, second edition, 1943, p. 114
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