Black Quotes

In the beginning it was all black and white.

We really kind of pioneered a technology here at Fossil Rim where we use ultrasound on both our white rhinos and black rhinos and we can even document pregnancy in animals at about 30 days.

I worked at an all-black swimming pool in the east side of Wilmington, I was involved in what the Negroes, I mean, blacks were thinking, what they were feeling.

My mother, religious-negro, proud of Having waded through a storm, is, very obviously, A sturdy Black bridge that I Crossed over, on.

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

Black men loving black men is THE revolutionary act.

I was born black and female.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Healing begins where the wound was made.

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

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

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

I know that statistically, it has been proven that there is a tremendous amount of black on black crime within the inner cities.

In Harlem, I got all my black friends. But when I go downtown, I got black, white, Asian, Indian friends. There's no borders, no barriers.

Keep on complaining about slavery and that was over 40 to 50 years ago. You know, black folks need to move on.

If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.

the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.

The Black Parade only has two songs left. Then you'll have to deal with the likes of My Chemical Romance. Personally...I think their language is atrocious and they don't know how to dress.

When I find a colour darker than black, I'll wear it. But until then, I'm wearing black!

Fox News never calls up Bobby Seale to articulate a stance in opposition to right-wing conservatives. To me, giving the New Black Panthers a platform on Fox is a subtle tactic to scare people.

Black cat or white cat: If it can catch mice, it's a good cat

I didn't realize, when I decided to be a comic, that a black person had never been allowed to stand flat-footed in America and talk to white folks. It never happened before.

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

Maybe the only thing that hints at a sense of Time is rhythm; not the recurrent beats of the rhythm but the gap between two such beats, the gray gap between black beats: the Tender Interval.

I use very little red. I use blue, yellow, a little green, but especially... black, white and grey. There is a certain need in me for communication with human beings. Black and white is writing.

You weigh how much you should criticize the President because hes black.

We put stereotypes on ourselves - like, everybody does that. But I think it's just a little harder for black kids to just like, you know, be who they are.

I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination.

They that are against Superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I will wear all colours but black, then am I superstitious in not wearing black.

I'm a 3rd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do and 2nd degree in karate, and I'm a licensed bodyguard.

You know the black bits in bananas? Are they tarantulas' eggs?

That old black magic has me in its spell, That old black magic that you weave so well; Icy fingers up and down my spine, The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine.

We [the Subban brothers] are role models to a lot of kids, not just black kids, but all kids out there and that's what we want to be known for.

We live in a world where black humanity is a relatively new idea.

To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.

Let's just shoot in black and white. Don't explain why. Have no reason for it. Just do it because it's interesting.

I feel like 'embattled' or 'disgraced' will always follow my name. It's like that black football player who recently came out.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

Poetry is the plough that turns up time in such a way that the abyssal strata of time, its black earth, appear on the surface.

When I die, I want them to play The Black and Crazy Blues, I want to be cremated, put in a bag of pot and I want beautiful people to smoke me and hope they got something out of it.

Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers.

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.

If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz.

When black women stick together, we are the most powerful force in the universe.