Black Quotes

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.

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

The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market.

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

I just want a hot cup of coffee,black,and I don’t want to hear about your troubles.

Black widows may be powerful predators, but every predator is somebody else's prey.

Liberals believe they own the franchise on minorities and can't stand any Hispanic or black who breaks rank.

Black Mafia. If they don't understand that, they ain't gangsta. I just watched TV and Bill Parcells kissed two or three of them boys...it's a Mafia thing.

What do you want?" "Just coffee. Black - like my soul.

It's not impossible for a woman - a Black woman - to become President.

People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.

The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, black jack for example, and every time the dealer has the same starting hand you have the same starting hand. What's the point?

Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me

Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop--you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.

Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering "who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?"

But it is true that some magazines have a policy to show only a certain amount of black girls on their covers. Naomi is right. It's not fair, and I wish it would change.

Race means family and all black people whether they like it or not, are family.

The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.

Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighborhood.

The black agenda, from Frederick Douglas to Ida B. Wells to Martin King, has always been the most broad, deep, inclusive, embracing agenda of the nation.

It is our experience that the nation doesn't move around questions of genuine equality for the poor and for black people until it is confronted massively, dramatically in terms of direct action.

Soul is at home in the deep, shaded valleys. Heavy torpid flowers saturated with black grow there. The rivers flow like warm syrup. They empty into huge oceans of soul.

Bathe in your riches and friends, I'll stay here with my songbooks and pens

We only said goodbye with words I died a hundred time, you go back to her and I go back to black.

I don't like conservatives. They always talk about the good old days. I'm black, we have no good old days.

I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood.

If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.

I'm the king of the 20th century. I'm the boogeyman, the villian, the black sheep of the family.

I am black. What are you going to do about it?

Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.

There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.

A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.

If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.

I believe that the black-and-white photograph, or rather the gray zones in the black-and-white photograph, stand for this territory that is located between life and death.

I like Jailhouse Rock and Love Me Tender. The black-and-white films. With music, I tend more toward the '70s stuff because I was at the shows for those, so they bring back memories.

Dream that you died It takes you out of your mind The black walls of space Take me all the way

A black sheep is a biting beast.

If I could dress anyone, I'd like to dress the Queen - she can handle anything. I'd put her in black - she never wears black - and add a little leather, maybe. A little rock n' roll.

The artist, busy and unsettled, can find a moment's peace - and even whole-being rejuvenation - by quietly attuning to a red sky, a gray sky, a black sky, a blue sky.

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

Until the day when a wise black man can become our ambassador in Paris, we will forever be a pre-Brazil.

There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.

Its really easy to get colors right. Its really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but its also an illusion.

I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue it is senseless.

Everybody knows that Black Sabbath started everything and almost every single thing that people are playing today has already been done by Black Sabbath. They wrote every single good riff... ever.

White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.

That's how it is sometimes--God comes to your window, all bright light and black wings, and you're just too tired to open it.

I think the end is endless. It's either a big black hole or a big white light or both together. But it's totally meaningless, because even if someone would explain it, I wouldn't understand it.