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- A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.~ Groucho Marx
- A black cow also gives white milk.~ Sierra Leonean Proverb
- A black hen lays a white egg.~ English Proverb
- A black plum is as sweet as a white.~ English Proverb
- All poor people ain’t black/ and all black people ain’t poor.~ African-American Proverb
- And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let’s stop all the fight.~ John Lennon
- Black goats must be caught early, before it gets dark.~ Nigerian Proverb
- Black soil produces white bread.~ Norwegian Proverb
- Black souls wear white shirts.~ Ukranian Proverb
- Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.~ Spanish Proverb
- Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.~ Turkish Proverb
- Death is a black camel that lies down at every door. Sooner or later you must ride the camel.~ Saudi Arabian Proverb
- From the black earth there grows the finest grain.~ Yiddish Proverb
- Golden dishes will never turn black.~ Yiddish Proverb
- I’m comfortable being old… being black... being Jewish.~ Billy Crystal
- I’ve been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.~ Pierre Auguste Renoir
- If the fire does not burn you the smoke will blacken you.~ French Proverb
- If you are going to think black, think positive about it. Don’t think down on it, or think it is something in your way. And this way, when you really do want to stretch out and express how beautiful black is, everybody will hear you.~ Leontyne Price
- If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.~ Richard M. Nixon
- In the darkness all cows are black.~ Slovak Proverb
- In the end, anti black, anti female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: antihumanism.~ Shirley Chisholm
- I realize that I’m black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody’s wish.~ Michael Jordan
- Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.~ Bob Geldof
- It always looks darkest just before it gets totally black.~ Charlie Brown
- It is difficult to catch a black cat in a dark room — especially if the cat isn’t there.~ Chinese Proverb
- Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.~ Danish Proverb
- Not all that is black is charcoal.~ Filipino Proverb
- Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow — red, yellow, brown, black and white — and we’re all precious in God’s sight.~ Jesse Jackson
- Out of a white egg often comes a black chick.~ Italian Proverb
- Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.~ Jean Paul Richter
- The black man steals just half of very little, but the white man steals the whole sugar plantation.~ Jamaican Proverb
- The devil is not so black as he is painted.~ Traditional Proverb
- There’s a black sheep in every flock.~ Traditional Proverb
- There is an incredible amount of magic in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.~ Toni Morrison
- There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it’s wrong. It’s black or it’s white.~ John F. Dodge
- The zebra told the white horse, “I am white,” and told the black horse, “I am actually black.”~ African Proverb
- Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.~ Charles Caleb Colton
- Too many words blacken your ears.~ Burundi Proverb
- When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs.~ Molly Ringwald
- When a woman dresses up for an occasion, the man should become the black velvet pillow for the jewel.~ John Weitz
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