Black Quotes

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

I don't consider myself just a black man. I consider myself a brotha. I love my people.

There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.

Why does every black person in the movies have to play a servant? How about a black person walking up the steps of a courthouse carrying a briefcase?

House Music isn't black or white. It just is. It feels good & it feels right.

I am black or white, I'll never be grey in my life.

I was dead until you found me, though I breathed. I was sightless, though I could see. And then you came...and I was awakened.

When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

I think love keeps on changing every day. It’s not black and white and it’s definitely more than 50 shades of grey.

What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.

When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?

Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview.'

I have one good characteristic: I'm a pessimist, so I always imagine the worst - always. To me, the future is a black hole.

All business is personal...Make your friends before you need them.

Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.

We enjoy freedom and the rule of law on which it depends, not because we deserve it, but because others before us put their lives on the line to defend it.

I'm responsible for what i did. I'm not responible for what every black male did. Yes! I call myself a THUG, because i grew up in the ghetto. And im still standing.

The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat.

The devil is not as black as he is painted.

A black belt is a white belt who never quits!

Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.

At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.

It’s an odd thing, happiness. Some people take happiness from gold. Or black pearls. And some of us, far more fortunate, take their happiness from periwinkles.

Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.

I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.

A black conservative is a black who dissents from the victimization explanation of black fate.

I have a great relationship with the blacks. I've always had a great relationship with the blacks.

As a strong and proud and intelligent Black man I have no problem expressing my respect for and adoration of the Black woman. Simply put, I love you. I love the Black woman.

I am a simple man and I use simple materials: Ivory Black, Vermilion, Prussian Blue, Yellow Ochre, Flake White and no medium. That’s all I’ve ever used in my paintings.

I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.

There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury.

Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who I am?

I've always considered movies evil; the day that cinema was invented was a black day for mankind.

Like black, do you? (Cassandra) It serves its purpose. It’s hard to look intimidating in pastels. (Wulf)

The black and gold runs deep in me and I will remain a Steeler for life.

Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.

Prejudice doesn't make me mad. It just - I guess 'pisses me off' is the word.

I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.

That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free.

Black Consciousness is in essence the realization by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their oppression.

No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around.

I told my wife she looks sexy with black fingernails. Now she thinks I slammed the car door on her hand on purpose.

I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you're gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I don't believe that anymore.

It's always darkest before it becomes totally black.

When a black person has no electricity, no water, they call it the ghetto. When white people have no electricity and no water, they call it camping.

If black boxes survive air crashes - why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?

Our situation is more psychological than people will admit. Black kids kill Black kids for the same reason cops do. They see no value.

Dark sides are important. They should be nurtured like nasty black orchids.

In the black culture, certain kids are given nicknames that they roll with forever; the nicknames outweigh their real names. I'm one of those scenarios.