Black Quotes

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

Evil lives in a pit. If you want to fight it, you must climb down into the slime to do so. White cloaks show the dirt more thank black, and silver tarnishes.

Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies.

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

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.

Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.

Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.

I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos.

You see, insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him have a chance to rise by his own efforts.

Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously.

Since I always go to work as Elvira, maybe a giant version of a cat. A black cat. I love cats and I think Elvira would look really good sitting on one.

I don't tend to like race jokes. I don't like Jew jokes and black jokes, and they make me very uncomfortable, probably because I'm both. Well, I'm not black - but if I was then I could dance better.

I’d gone heavy on the black eye makeup until raccoons and I could pass for cousins.

The Beatles were huge. And the first thing they said when you interviewed them, 'Oh yeah, we grew up on Motown.'..They were the first white act to admit they grew up listening to black music.

I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.

Stereotypes wouldn't be so bad if black people were nicer, in general.

I spent many years working for voting rights, but we still see sophisticated efforts, led by white officials, to disenfranchise black voters in local and national elections.

All actors bring something unexpected to the role because they have to translate what's on the page and make a real character out of the black-and-white text that's there in the script.

Out of the blue and into the black

Black folks never bungie jump. That's too much like lynching for us. I'm gonna let you tie a rope around me and push me off a bridge? You must be out your damn mind.

Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman's jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with.

I love black lingerie and white shoes, and I love knives.

The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.

I want to hear the chanting Around a heathen fire Of a strange black race.

It is an impressive place that smells like the 1950s, when everyone wore starch white shirts and black slacks and perfect crewcuts and worked on massive industrial projects

If you're a white kid growing up and you see a Black player and he's got the name of your college or your town across his chest, that means something.

[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.

A discordant mind, black with confusion and despair, would finish me off as thoroughly as the cold.

Black love is black wealth

When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.

If you’re a black Christian, you have a real short memory.

My life is a black hole of boredom and despair." "So basically you've been doing homework." "Like I said, black hole.

I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.

Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.

For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.

It's great to know that young black girls are seeing themselves on TV as leading ladies, and I'm part of that. It's just such an honor.

I don't speak for all of us, but I'm pretty sure that my thoughts and opinions and beliefs identify with most people who are black because that's my soul.

My philosophy, like color television, is all there in black and white.

I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are never black and white, things are very much shades of grey.

I make a composition with a white and a black, and make adjustments when the white has become a paper and the black a shadow.

Richmond has fallen - and I have no heart to write about it... They are too many for us. Everything lost in Richmond, even our archives. Blue-black is our horizon.

If envy is red and doubt is black then happiness is brown. I looked from the little brown stone to the tiny brown freckle to her huge brown eyes.

Black people use body lotion every single day.

Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.

Wrapped in a police blanket, I watched the rain and smoked one black cigarette after another.

Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.

Who is your opponent tonight, tonight I am playing against the Black pieces

It is frustrating to be a Black woman in the entertainment industry.