Black Quotes
Therapists are less likely to perceive a black woman as sad; instead they see her as angry or anxious.
The enemy has always been able to point the finger of suspicion and/or guilt to Black leaders that they are enriching themselves at the expense of the people.
I'm glad Hurricane Katrina happened. It taught us an important lesson: black people can't swim.
The most I can hope for is to die in a pose that confuses future archaeologists.
Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.
The mercury light doesn't show red. It makes the blood in your skin look blue-black. But see how splendidly it brings out the green in the plants.
when michael jackson died i wonder if his life flashed before him and if it did, i wonder if he thought 'who's that little black kid singing my songs?!'
It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.
Black lives, of course, matter. I spent 50 years of my life fighting for civil rights and for dignity, but if you don't want me to be here, that's OK. I don't want to out-scream people.
Barack Obama was a black man that lived on the South Side of Chicago, who had his share of troubles catching cabs.
I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi.
Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.
There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.
I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.
It was darker than a pitch-black panther, covered in tar, eating black licorice at the very bottom of the deepest part of the Black Sea.
The zenith of elegance in any woman's wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement.
I'm trying to incorporate colour into my life. Until recently, everything in my closet was black, white, grey, navy or olive.
Less is more when you do a bright, bold lip. Just draw on black liner and some mascara and you're good to go!
I don't like perpetuating the stereotype of black males being drug dealers, and criminals.
I majored in directing. However, I did spend some time at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, so I am somewhat well-versed in African Studies.
What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.
When you go to a bar that has a black light, everybody looks cool. Except for me, because I was under the impression that the mustard stain came out.
My essentials are skinny jeans, loose-fitting tees, big jumpers, and the leather jacket. Everything is black or blue - I don't own anything colorful.
There are three dominant tendencies in a neoliberal society: financialized, privatized, militarized. And when it comes to black poor people, we get all three.
If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the black man.
We have to undo the millions of little white lies that America told itself and the world about the American Black man.
It's a great day in America when white people, black people and Latinos can all come together and pick on another minority.
How can we teach our children to respect Black women if Black women don't respect Black women?
Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.
What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery.
A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.
Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of.
