Black Quotes

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.

It's a great day in America when white people, black people and Latinos can all come together and pick on another minority.

I write for myself and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there.

Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four.

Eyes as black and as shiny as chips of obsidian stared back into his. They were eyes like black holes, letting nothing out, not even information.

Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.

Faith is the black person's federal reserve system.

I like smudgy black eyes and pale lips for evening. Red lipstick looks great on other girls, but its too much on me.

I am admiring of my fellow peers, black filmmakers and black actors and actresses.

Comin' from the school of hard knocks, Some perpetrate...they drink Clorox. Attack the black, cause I know they lack exact The cold facts, and still they try to Xerox.

As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work.

Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write. On you go.

As a black person I am no stranger to prejudice. But the truth is that in the political world I have been far more often discriminated against because I am a woman than because I am black.

To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch black, just listening to the boom of silence: you can't imagine what that's like.

I am proud that my daughter believes, as I do, that hungry children should be fed whether they are Black Panthers or White Republicans.

To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.

It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan

The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.

In Harlem, black was white. You had rights that could not be denied you; you had privileges, protected by law. And you had money. Everybody in Harlem had money. It was a land of plenty.

As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts.

Think black love, think universal love. Just think love.

In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black, but common country, common citizenship, equal rights and a common destiny.

I'm like Johnny Cash. I only wear black.

I would rather live in Russia on black bread and vodka than in the United States at the best hotels. America knows nothing of food, love or art.

When I look into the crowd, I see young and old, black and white - it's amazing that I'm able to connect with so many different kinds of people.

They're powerful, those songs. At times they've been my only way back, the only door out of the dark, bad places the black dog calls home.

I still think the best metal bands have a blues feel. The first Black Sabbath album is kind of a bludgeoning of blues. Deep Purple also started out as a blues band.

I am interested in garnering the white vote, and the black vote, and the Latin vote, and the Asian vote, and the business vote, and the labor vote.

I write to create red in a world that often appears black and white.

Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.

Poor is the new black.

Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a black artist with white skin. At the end of the day you have to sing what's in your own soul.

Jumps like a black man and grabs coins like a Jew.

I'm from the South, where if you walk down the street and there's somebody behind you talking with a Southern accent, you can't tell whether it's a black or a white person.

It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.

O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?

Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.

We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up.

What's shaking, chiefy baby?

I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person.

Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.

I'm a black lady from the Lower East Side of New York. Not a lot intimidates me.

I generally don't think most situations can be labeled as black or white.

In the corporate world, sometimes things aren't exactly black and white when it comes to accounting procedures.

His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin.

Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.

I am urging the parents of black and Latino youngsters particularly to not let their children go out wearing hoodies.

Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.

A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for him, and setting it before him in black and white.

God created people in technicolor. God has never made a difference between black, white, blue, green or pink