Black Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side, not the white man's side. Me dip on God's side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

I see black light (his last words)

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.

Black lives matter. White lives matter. Asian lives matter. Hispanic lives matter. That's anti-American and it's racist.

Seeing a black transgender woman embracing and loving everything about herself might be inspiring to some other folks.

Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it's show business. You know, we all got rhythm.

Why is it that it's okay to call a white person "mate" yet it's not okay to call a black guy "primate"?

This time, we went up to Big Bear for 3-4 weeks and sequestered ourselves writing this album [ "The Black Crown"].

For me black is not dark, it's poetic. I don't think of gothic I think of classic - it's a big difference.

Black people have this thing about calling themselves apes and monkeys I know they get real (whatever) and I don't blame em'. But I feel like I'm a brute. I am, but I'm smart though. I'm not a dummy.

Cassius Clay must be beaten and the Black Muslims' scourge removed from boxing.

I feel like Black Jesus got his hands on me and guides me through life to put me where I'm supposed to be.

We believe that black holes collapse to rings hitting very fast. If you follow through the ring you don't die. The mathematics says you fall straight through, perhaps to another universe.

I understand that life is not black and white, everything has a different hand, lots of them, I act according to the situation.

I usually just wear black so my shoes and my socks are my rays of sunshine.

I design differently because I am Patrick Kelly, and Patrick Kelly is black

Go to work! Go to work in the morn of a new creation... until you have... reached the height of self-progress, and from that pinnacle bestow upon the world a civilization of your own.

It's not the black belt that you wear on your waist. It's the black belt in your heart and knowing that you can go out there and you can do it. That's what a true black belt is.

We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!!

They don't make red noses to fit black people. I have a wide nose like a Volkswagen and I have never had a red nose that fitted me.

Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans.

Turkey is a European country, an Asian country, a Middle Eastern country, Balkan country, Caucasian country, neighbor to Africa, Black Sea country, Caspian Sea, all these.

The environment is the most important, the most fundamental, civil-rights issue.... Four out of every five toxic-waste dumps in America is in a black neighborhood.

The single most important lesson I learned is that black people are the cause of black people's demise.

I'm an avid hockey fan and I've been playing for about 17 years, and somebody recently told me that the first organized hockey teams in Canada were all black. Telling those stories would be cool.

Remember that you are a Black Swan.

Black folk, a lot of us lived as victims in a certain part of our history. And we had to really erase that tape. We're not victims. We are citizens.

George Bush doesn't care about black people... They're saying black families are looting and white families are just looking for food... they're giving the (Army) permission to shoot us.

The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.

I wear a lot of black, knitwear, skinny jeans and very high heels. My mum used to work for a fashion designer making knitwear, so she knits me lots of chunky scarves, hats and gloves, which I love.

Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.

Many of us in Nashville accepted nonviolence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.

Young black men had an opportunity to make money that they had never made before, so why not be flashy? I'm not mad at the flash. It just needed to be balanced.

... we ought even to hold as a fixed principle that what I see white I believe to be black, if the superior authorities define it to be so.

Black is not as good as Purple.

We lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am a man, is the other that hides in me?

Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.

My greatest influence has been the blues. And that's a literary influence, because I think the blues is the best literature that we as black Americans have.

A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.