Black Quotes

I closed my eyes, held my breath and then everything went black.

Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.

People are always going to, you know, find something wrong with people who are not the exact same as them. That's just what it is. Black, white, short, tall, religions, whatever. People are bad.

Coal-black is better than another hue In that it scorns to bear another hue; For all the water in the ocean Can never turn the swan's black legs to white, Although she lave them hourly in the flood.

I'm working on a second cookbook and am working on my love story, 'Black Heels to Tractor Wheels.

I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just gets so tiresome.

I started to try to be a colorist, although secretly thinking of myself as somewhat of a black and whiteist.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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?

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.

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

Black culture is a fight. We want to hold on to what we are, but sometimes the things that we are can be totally negative. You have to think: can't we try something new and not be seen as suspect?

When white and black and brown and every other color decide they're going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.

Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

I look most like myself... when I'm wearing my black, nerdy engineering glasses.

I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.

The wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man (or any person) on his merits as a man, giving him no more and no less than he is worthy to have.

Nothing is black or white.

We need to take responsibility and educate people. That's why black folks don't like me. I always say it's our responsibility to make safe neighborhoods. It's our job to get them cleaned up.

These days I smile benignly at the fights that I see in NBA games. There aren't any broken noses or black eyes, which happened quite often when I played.

I find it difficult [to believe] that... Christians accuse [Black Muslims] of teaching racial supremacy or... hatred, because their own history and... teachings are filled with it.

Let us not become the evil that we deplore.

The most unprotected person in America is the black woman.

When black women are down with you and in your corner, you have an ally that will move Heaven and Earth.

I'm an extra dark black belt in ping pong.

I serve black tea, which I call Froggy tea. And I have green teas and all sorts of nice teas. I'm serving tea all the time.

I approximated the Black Friday experience at home by hurling myself into a wall a number of times and then ordering online.

If you don't know what color to take, take black.

There's no black and white dividing line between a mild Aspergers, which is the mild autism, and computer engineer, for example.

There's a man outside with a big black mustache. - Tell him I've got one.

Me being biracial, me being from Canada but having success in the States, I have all these moments in my life where I'm jumping roof to roof. Black to white. Singing and rapping.

Reckless capitalism kills black people.

The only thing I change mainly is my sneakers. I love sneakers. But everything's sort of black or jeans. Jeans, always.

Whose the spiritual people pon earth. The Black people. Dem a deal wit God. And God no let dem down.

Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the deadly virtues plague my death!

We're all Africans, everyone - black, white, yellow.

A recent poll shows that a majority of blacks, whites, Asians and Hispanics do not think the Census should be classifying people as black, white, Asian and Hispanic.

Any woman who has a great deal to offer the world is in trouble. And if she's a black woman, seh's in deep trouble.

If you're into social justice it's hard not to be on black people's side.

Leave it up to me while I be livin' proof, To kick the truth to the young black youth.

I am a huge fan of the Black woman. I never hesitate to recommend her when times are bad or things go wrong.