Black Quotes
Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page.
But it's possible to love more than one person at a time, Bella. I've seen it in action.
There's a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we've arrived where we need to be and nothing else needs to be done and affirmative action needs to be dismantled.
The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
Sometimes I feel like when someone asks me if I believe in God, it's like a blind person asking if I'm black, so that they can put me in the right category.
You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
People think that I'm some tough renegade, black-hearted being, evil, but that ain't me.
Who's the new Ramones, who's the new Guns 'N Roses, who's the new Motley Crue, who's the new Black Sabbath? They're coming, they're on the street, they're 16, 17 years old.
I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.
The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad.
Without water, our planet would be one of the billions of lifeless rocks floating endlessly in the vastness of the inky-black void.
We're so quick to go to make things black and white, and to put things in their box. But everything is this mixture - and that's what this world is - is this blend of different things.
What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.
One fish. Two fish. Red fish. Blue fish. Black fish. Blue fish. Old fish. New fish. This one has a little star. This one has a little car. Say! What a lot of fish there are.
Republicans bring out Colin Powell and J.C. Watts because they have no program, no policy. They have no love and no joy. They'd rather take pictures with black children than feed them.
The only way I’d ever recruit a white quarterback to play for me is if his mom and daddy would both have to be black, and that’s the only way I would do it.
If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full.
I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could - if that were your sole purpose - you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down.
In matters of honesty, there are no shortcuts; no little white lies, or big black lies, only the simple, honest truth spoken in total candor... Being true is different than being honest.
I need a lot of black on my eyes and a little shot of vodka to be brave, because you're beautiful when you relax.
War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.
If you have used colour throughout most of your artistic life, try just black and white... it will take your painting to another dimension where tone and form in all its permutations reign supreme.
In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity... And here, most of the saints are black.
Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.
I was sentenced to life plus 30 years by an all-White jury. What I saw in prison was wall-to-wall Black flesh in chains. Women caged in cells. But we're the terrorists. It just doesn't make sense.
When Black people seriously organize and take up arms to fight for our liberation, there will be a lot of white people who will drop dead from no other reason than their own guilt and fear.
If you have the power to see things through somebody else's eyes, it's like going from black and white to color or two dimensions to three dimensions.
Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.
Being a black rapper is like being a Southern, socialite woman: You're always worried about appearances.
Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.
Did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smoke risin' against that blue sky? Did you shout out in anger, in fear of your neighbor or did you just sit down and cry?..
I can go all over the world with just three outfits: a blue blazer and gray flannel pants, a gray flannel suit, and black tie.
The films of Warhol, when they are about anything are about sucking people off. This can be high art, to people who are interested in sucking people off. But that will not liberate Black people.
Once a blooming red rose, full of streaming life in its veins. Now a wilting black petal rupturing with death and pain.
