Black Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

A black sheep is a biting beast.

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

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.

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.

This is brain surgery. Ski masks on my bullets, let 'em commit brain burglary. Emergency, it's an emergency. Someone in all black left the whole scene burgundy.

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

Black coffee’s a lot like whiskey, you know? All devil and no trimmin’s. Always liked my sins pure and take it as it comes.

Showtime has given new, young filmmakers - black, white, across the board - an opportunity to make films, as well as actors who want to cross over into directing.

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.

What a moth might see from birth to death if black were white and white were black.

I really am a guy who can be black and white. I don't understand, too much, the gray. And truly I can go from one type of character to another type of character.

There's a lot of difference between being well known and being notorious and the black paintings didn't make me well known - they made me notorious.

Being tall and big was probably more painful than being black.

I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.'

What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.

Look deep into the pupil stare into the black, you'll be able to see the soul what is it doingLaughing? Dancing? Crying? Screaming?

I don't look as handsome in Men in Black II as I did in the first one.

I have seen the dark universe yawning Where the black planets roll without aim, Where they roll in their horror unheeded, Without knowledge, or lustre, or name.

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.

I'm a black American playwright. I couldn't be anything else. I make my art out of black American culture; they're all cut out of the same cloth. That's who I am; that's who I write about.

Actually, some of the things I experienced as a child still linger on; what the white man has done to the black people in the south!

The locomotives are black. The coal is black. The tracks are black. The night is black. So what am I going to do with color?

Marlene Dietrich and Roy Rogers are the only two living humans who should be allowed to wear black leather pants.

I guess I'm the Black Death,' he said slowly. 'I don't seem to bring people happiness any more.

My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.

The only good produced by the disappearance of Africville was the appearance of a conscious black nationalism … In this regard, Consecrated Ground is the heir of fierce, vengeful, and epic activism.

A lot of people heard about gin and juice for the first time from Snoop Dogg, but it was nothing new in rap music, and it was nothing new in the black community.

Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.

We were also fortunate enough to engage in our service a Canadian Frenchmen, who had been with the Chayenne Indians on the Black mountains, and last summer descended thence by the Little Missouri.

I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn’t have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me.

Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.

A lot of black men have problems being emotionally vulnerable because of the boundaries and parameters that have been put onto them by society.

Black movies don't have real names, they have names like Barbershop. That's not a name, that's just a location.

The silver and black may have another home, but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles.

I wear black skinny-fit jeans - I can't get away from them. It's funny because I wore baggy jeans for ages, then one day my friend convinced me to try on a skinny pair and I thought they were great.

Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.

I was listening to a lot of Norwegian black metal and death metal. There's a great history to Norwegian black metal. That music is very dark and violent, but it's also beautiful.

Either you are a victim or you victimize someone and in the hood it's no holds barred. The kid in the schoolyard that doesn't want to fight always leaves with a black eye.

If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.