Black Quotes

I'm glad that young black people are successful with the music. I'm not a hater.

The best way to protect young black, brown, men of color, women of color, is to actually stop profiling, stop the prejudice, and stop the judgment first.

Scatman, fat man, black and white and brown man, tell me 'bout the color of your soul.

I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.

Golf is a game where white men can dress up as black pimps and get away with it.

We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.

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.

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

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

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.

[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.

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

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

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

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.

Out of the blue and into the black

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.

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

It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.

I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.

The black nation of Egypt is the only country that has a science named after its culture: Egyptology

To me, most of life kind of lives in the grey and I don't just mean morally. I just mean kind of everything. If things were black and white it would be a lot clearer as to what to do all the time.

I will not take 'but' for an answer. Negroes have been looking at democracy's 'but' too long.

The only difference between black coal and a precious diamond is the amount of pressure it endured.

Leave him! I said. I never mean to. I am going with him, if he climbs to the Moon; and if any of these Black Riders try to stop him, they'll have Sam Gamgee to reckon with, I said. They laughed.

I'll also say, yes, I think the change in black consciuosness in recent years has made me more sensitive to injustice in every area of my life.

I am carried in my shadow like a violin in its black case

I make films about Black women and it doesn't mean that you can't see them as a Black man, doesn't mean that he can't see them as a white man or she can't see them as a white woman.

They are called 'Emos' now, and before that they were 'Goths.' They didn't have a name for it when I was one, but I was that black-wearing teenager and yes, I wore a little eyeliner.

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.

Black ink was always my favorite. I loved it. And then one day I realized that the only thing I ever wanted to do was to paint.

There ain't nothin' like a Black woman.

Some stories aren't black and white.

If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist.

When a woman dresses up for an occasion, the man should become the black velvet pillow for the jewel.

I think the truth is black-and-white .

Racist dermatologists think all black people have really bad skin.

Standing to America, bringing home black gold, black ivory, black seed.

Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music.

The translation process becomes a highly subjective thing - turning reds and blues into black-and-whiteness. It's really bizarre for me.

I am not trying to influence anyone into black magic. That is the very last thing I'd want to do.

I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.

Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.

A black man will be elected President of the United States. I'm sorry, that's in the year 10,000.

When white people wear baggy clothing and speak gibberish they're homeless, when black people wear baggy clothing and speak gibberish they're called rappers.

I hope and trust to meet you in Heaven, both white and black-both white and black.

We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.

My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?