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黑色
Black
We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of blackness and race is simply reactionary. Africans didn't walk around Africa being black and proud, they walked around proud.
我们不能不断地把自己禁锢在一些虚假的种族观念之下，因为我们对黑人和种族的观念仅仅是反动的。非洲人并不是骄傲的黑人，他们是骄傲的。
Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being.
仅仅通过把自己描述成一个黑人，你就已经开始了一条通往解放的道路，你已经承诺与所有试图利用你的黑人身份作为一个标志，把你作为一个顺从的存在的力量作斗争。
And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission.
所有这些，所有这些绘画的物理方面都让我非常兴奋。你可以画一幅黑白的画。我的意思是所有的事情，不管你是否请求许可，一定要给你许可。
I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once I'm still and quiet inside, I'll begin. It's very personal; it has to be. One song may be Bach, the next blues, a song from TV, or a nursery rhyme or jazz piece.
我喜欢非常暗的房子，只有黑色。我只是坐在那里思考。一旦我内心平静下来，我就开始。这是非常私人的;必须如此。一首可能是巴赫，下一首是布鲁斯，一首来自电视的歌，一首儿歌或一首爵士乐。
Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.
说唱为什么不应该是深奥的，能够接受时事、历史和批评?我想这是一种古老的遏制思想——说唱歌手，因为他们是黑人，不能也不应该渴望从贫民区之外寻求影响。
I took a private lesson, but it didn't really work out, so I went back to playing along with records. That's really the thing that got me into playing a lot - getting excited about playing along with my favorite bands like Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.
我上了一节私人课，但效果并不好，所以我又回去跟着唱片玩了。这真的是让我投入很多演奏的东西——和我最喜欢的乐队一起演奏，比如齐柏林飞艇和黑色安息日乐队，让我感到兴奋。
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They're keeping friction going between people from the East and the West. One thing we all got in common is your color, which is Black and Latino, which is our family.
他们保持着东西方人民之间的摩擦。我们都有一个共同点，那就是你的肤色，那就是黑人和拉丁美洲人，那就是我们的家庭。
So for Bullitt, I just put my black hat back on.
所以对于布利特，我只是戴上了我的黑帽子。
Our nation's oldest sin and deepest crime is the isolation of minority children - black children, in particular - in schools that are not only segregated but shamefully unequal.
我们国家最古老的罪恶和最深的罪恶是少数民族儿童- -特别是黑人儿童- -在学校里受到隔离，这不仅是种族隔离，而且是可耻的不平等。
Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?
生活不是黑白分明的。这是一百万个灰色地带，你没有发现吗?
That's because we did not set out to make black music. We set out to make quality music that everyone could enjoy and listen to.
那是因为我们并没有开始创作黑人音乐。我们开始制作高质量的音乐，让每个人都能欣赏和聆听。
I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year.
我相信你们可以回去做一个图表显示所有对黑人男性的杀戮都是在经济困难时期增加的。事实上，去年有一个黑人被私刑处死。