John Black is a fictional character on the NBC soap opera Days of our Lives, played by Drake Hogestyn since January 10, 1986, with brief interruptions from October 26, 2007 to January 8, 2008, and most recently January 23, 2009 to September 26, 2011. One of daytime's most popular characters, John Black is the son of Santo DiMera and Colleen Brady, thus making him a member of two of Salem's leading families: the Bradys and the DiMeras. This makes him related to several characters the most notable being the half-brother of Stefano DiMera.
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“I learned early in life that you get places by having the right enemies.”
—Bishop John Spong (b. 1931)
“As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.”
—Harper Lee (b. 1926)