Black Quotes

I think the only reason Clarence Thomas is on the court is because he is black

I man don't come red, I come Black

I really can't break away from wearing black and leather!

Once a blooming red rose, full of streaming life in its veins. Now a wilting black petal rupturing with death and pain.

What shall I do, singer and first-born, in a world where the deepest black is grey, and inspiration is kept in a thermos? with all this immensity in a measured world?

The Black woman is the most unprotected, unloved woman on earth...she is the only flower on earth...that grows unwatered.

We're conditioned in this country to believe that if there's a problem, the black man is usually the culprit.

Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior?

I don't have anything against colour. It is just not my first preference. I have always found black and white photographs to be quieter and more mysterious than those made in colour.

I don't do black music. I don't do white music. I do fight music, unified in Christ music.

The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.

If this is how you’re going to react, I’ll freak out more often.

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.

The part that kills me is that you already know. I already told you everything!

You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.

The stars of death stood over us. And Russia, guiltless, beloved, writhed under the crunch of bloodstained boots, under the wheels of Black Marias.

The legacy of American socialism is our blighted inner cities, dysfunctional inner city school and broken black families.

Colour is what gives jewels their worth. They light up and enhance the face. Nothing is more elegant than a black skirt and sweater worn with a sparkling multi-stoned necklace.

The white man discovered the Cross by way of the Bible, but the black man discovered the Bible by way of the Cross.

I love chocolate. Black chocolate with marshmallow inside, caramel inside. If I could only have two foods, I'd take some fantastic chocolate. And some terrible chocolate. I love the Clark Bar.

Last week I lost my temper in my karate class. Man, I'm not doing that again until I'm a black belt. Because I can tell you there's a difference between taking karate and receiving karate.

Yes, I'm an extremist. The Black race here in North America is in extremely bad condition. You show me a Black man who isn't an extremist and I'll show you one who needs psychiatric attention.

I don't like the masculine style, jeans. I like issey miyake... and black dresses.

When the prophet, a complacent fat man, Arrived at the mountain-top He cried: "Woe to my knowledge! I intended to see good white lands And bad black lands— But the scene is grey.

A little black dress is something to rely on. To fill you with confidence and ease. To have an attitude that is pure and effortless, yet sexy and classy.

Life is a rainbow which also includes black.

It's possible and available to any artist to be himself or herself on their own terms, to be accepted and embraced by black people. You don't have to be a thug to get love from black people.

Favorite color to paint my nails is black, always.

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.

My worst hair experience was when I was trying to relax my hair and my grandmother did it. It went all straight and I looked like a black Bee Gee.

I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.

Your first name's white, your second is Hispanic, and your third belongs to a black. No wonder you don't know who you are.

I don't understand why everyone has to wear black, grey and white.

For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

Healing begins where the wound was made.

For those of you watching in black and white, Spurs are in the all-yellow strip.

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

I appreciate the female foot, but I've never said that I have a foot fetish. But I am a lower track guy. I like legs' I like booties'. I have a black male sexuality.

I would have painted the White House black. I would have!

When you have something in black and white, you can deal with it quicker.

I was born black and female.

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.

Black men loving black men is THE revolutionary act.

If blacks are oppressed in America, why isn’t there a black exodus?

When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the best game. And these guys, they'd let me play. And they were black guys.

I'm not just a black man, I'm a brotha. I love my people. When I'm on the air I am fully aware that I am not just representing myself but representing us.

If only women are talking about women's rights, then the issue has failed from the start. If you think about the Holocaust, that wasn't just a Jewish issue. Civil rights weren't just a black issue.

Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can.