Black Quotes
We've got Chinese, white, black and mixed; but remember that our colors are cheap, for after many years of contracts and tricks nobody's purity runs very deep.
To begin at the beginning: It is a spring moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black.
Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy.
I don't think women need another black bag. Everybody has a black bag already, so I thought this season (needs) color.
Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
No matter how much you've worked so hard to be as successful as you are, there will always be those ignorant haters who don't understand.
First black president ever, and to be living while it happened - that's a good part of history. That's probably the biggest person I admire right now.
There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'.
My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, caught between two communities.
Escape from the black cloud that surrounds you. Then you will see your own light as radiant as the full moon.
When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.
I'm not anti-anything. I'm not anti-Jew or Gentile, I'm not anti-white, but I am pro-black. I am pro my people. And I love us so much that it gets on my nerves when we do stupid things.
Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her.
The central idea in The Black Swan is that: rare events cannot be estimated from empirical observation since they are rare.
Studies that bring clarity and direction to the black male situation as an integral part of the black family/community are unpopular, not easy to get published and very dangerous.
Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
Only in black and white can I see the design and textures. I don't consider color photography art. Black and white is an interpretation. Color is a duplication.
Oh, I'd love to wear a rainbow everyday, And tell the world that everything's okay, But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back, Till things are brighter, I'm the Man in Black.
I think about never losing my voice, never giving in, never selling out, always keeping black, always sticking to the street. Staying neighborhood and not Hollywood.
I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.
I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
Jews, black people - any people who are hated or who have suffered, either as individuals or as a people - use humour. It is a survival skill.
I'm like an eclipse on a Friday the 13th, With black cats and Haley's Comet, Blazin' blunts in my driveway.
I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
Any style that Nike makes in all black, shoe, sweatshirt, onesie, doesn't matter, I pretty much need to have.
Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like livin' in jail.
American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should think that any number of black writers should go into the detective story form.
When things go wrong and will not come right, Though you do the best you can, When life looks black as the hour of night, A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.
I don't understand racism. I have many black friends and many others have been my opponents. Respect is basic. Unfortunately racism is a social problem, and football belongs to society.
Well, I'm so sorry that I can't be the right kind of monster for you, Bella.
It's nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager.
I’ve always been a black sheep. That’s a hard thing to be until you find your calling in life. I was bullied a lot at school, probably because I was perceived to be different from everyone else.
I'm sorry that I did not become the world's first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
When I am White, I win because I am White. When I am Black, I win because I am Bogolyubov.
I would have artists be convinced that the supreme skill and art in painting consists in knowing how to use black and white... because it is light and shade that make objects appear in relief.
OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.
Puerto Ricans are many colors - we are Spanish, we're French, we're Thai, Indian, we're almost black, some of us.
It doesn't require much for misfortune to strike in the King's Gambit - one incautious move, and Black can be on the edge of the abyss.
