Sentences with phrase «black folk know»

Black folk know too well that no matter how well - meaning white establishments are, they are not black ones.

Just as black folks braved the cautions about what lay north and west when they participated in the Great Migration, black folks know that hope is captured in moving forward, not standing still.

So the artist began to mix the three influences — the attitude of musicians like Simone and Davis, the iconic style of old world European painting, and the everyday black folks he knew from the neighborhood or saw strutting through the streets — in a distinct visual style that has been referred to as «cool realism.»

Not exact matches

Some good places to start: Beloved by Toni Morrison, The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, Strength to Love by Martin Luther King Jr., Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou.

Her origins are in the black folk expression «You acting womanish,» meaning, according to Walker, «wanting to know more and in greater depth than is good for one — outrageous audacious, courageous and willful behavior.»

I know there are folks that don't care for bourbon and those that don't care for black walnuts.

Most folks didn't mention his kids were black but the fact that they didn't say it, didn't mean they didn't know it.

They are so noticeable because more often than not black people age much better than white folk, Oriental do too (less wrinkles and smoother skin), so for me it is suspicious seeing a supposedly teenage kid who looks to gone well past puberty (still I know there will be the exception).

Now while Yorkshire folk are not generally known for a tendency to panic, it's likely that some had already been put off driving out into the picturesque dales even before the skies turned black and the rain started falling horizontally (forcing the abandonment of the outside gazebos and demonstrations of crafts like blacksmithing).

Sadly, de Blasio wants to be relected more than he wants to make a serious change in the way black folks (like his wife and kids only less well - known) are treated by the police.

«Go into any inner - city neighborhood, and folks will tell you that government alone can't teach kids to learn.They know that parents have to parent, that children can't achieve unless we raise their expectations and turn off the television sets and eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.»

But with all the excitement in the air, there are some folks who don't know that Black Panther won't be the first film based on a Marvel character with a black Black Panther won't be the first film based on a Marvel character with a black black lead.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Documentary on DVD Revisits Black Revolution of the Sixties During the Black Power Movement back in the Sixties, most folks only got to know the leaders by way of sound bites disseminated by the mass media.

For folks who think their story is the only one, who don't know that you can be both black and queer, Moonlight is the difference between isolation and validation.

Let this movie spark a mental revolution in the minds of others seeing Black folks as the dope ass people we know ourselves to be!

Black folks have certainly known this for generations, being blessed with family trees reflecting the full spectrum of the rainbow.

The silliness of EARLY MAN won't make any big splashes at the box office, as its going against a Marvel juggernaut BLACK PANTHER, but if enough folks hear about the giant man - eating mallard... Who knows?

Sure Rose's folks are awkward, but they seem to be liberal, although the only black people they know are their creepily obliging servants, the groundskeeper Walter (Marcus Henderson) and the housekeeper Georgina (Betty Gabriel).

I've gotten to know the fine folks behind Black Fawn Films well enough to know that they're not only incredibly passionate...

«Go into any inner - city neighborhood, and folks will tell you that government alone can't teach kids to learn.They know that parents have to parent, that children can't achieve unless we raise their expectations and turn off the television sets and eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.»

While no longer a common goal for black folk, it still happens often enough to raise issues for some students.

He, alongside a bunch of other rich white folks who think that they know how to best serve our black or Latino children, recently produced a documentary film called

They know school choice should not be reserved for the privileged — that does not serve most Black folks» interest.

This idea that if you're a poor black boy, you might not have a lot of contact with college educated folks who look like you, and spending a year with a teacher who is also black and who is college educated, might allow them to imagine themselves in that kind of a role, and shift their own expectations and aspirations,» Papageorge told the Huffington Post, although he does not know if the role model effect influenced his study.

As most folks know by now, the BlackBerry Passport comes with a silver stainless steel band all around the piano black device but this version has that swapped out and in its place, there's a black stainless steel band around the device.

Folks might know I'm a big fan of Dr. Ramanathan's «Fast Mitigation» (methane, smog, black soot, and HFC emissions).