Black Quotes

The most unprotected person in America is the black woman.

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

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?

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

I know that I'm freer as a hip-hopper than as an executive. Even as a black man, I enjoy more freedom as a hip-hopper than as a black man. That, s controversial to say, but it's the truth.

I go to castings and see several black and Asian girls, then I get to the show and look around there's just me and maybe one other coloured face.

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.

Microsoft is still not a black belt.

In movies we tend make things black and white: you're either this, or you're that.

I preach darkness. I don't inspire hope—only shadows. It's up to you to find the light in my words.

I got arrested for playing chess in the street. I said, it's because I'm black, isn't it.

Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.

My first film goes into production in October. It's called White Boy Shuffle and it's based on a novel about a young black kid and it's sort of reminiscent of Catcher in the Rye.

Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.

A sucker punch came flying from somewhere in the back. As soon as we can see clearly with our big black eye, we're going to light up your world like the fourth of July.

Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.

And an inky-colored despair of rejection enveloped me like the black tortilla of depression around a pain burrito.

I know the difference between black magic and white magic.

Painting is marvelous; it makes you happier and more patient. Afterwards you do not have black fingers as with writing, but blue and red ones.

All my friends were in the park smoking weed and getting pregnant. I didn't want to be the young black girl having a baby, a baby's father, being on welfare. That wasn't going to be my story.

I would suggest is that in the latter 1990s it is extremely important to look at the predicament of black people within the context of the globalization of capital.

I'm so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.

For me, I've never talked about my private life. It's always been about Black Sabbath. It's strange to open up and talk about me as a young lad, my relationships, marriages and what not.

He said that black sheeps express everyone else's anger and pain. It's not that they have all the anger and pain-they're just the only ones who let it out. Then the other people don't have to.

They didn't have to describe Jesus to me for me to know he's black. Jesus' first miracle was turning water into wine at a wedding. Now if that ain't black folk, I don't know what is.

I dont think being black has held me back at all. Being black makes you strong.

She comes by night, in fearsome flight, in garments black as pitch, the queen of doom upon her broom, the wild and wicked witch.

George W. Bush doesn't care about black people.

I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival.

Gene Roberts, one of Malcolm's X chiefs of security, was an NYPD undercover cop. He later went on to bigger things by being a disruptive force inside of the Black Panther Party.

However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.

Black women must challenge black men to live up to their best in every arena of the culture - at job, at home, in school and in religious arenas.

Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.

The other day I got invited to a party, but I stayed home instead. Just me and my pal Johnny Walker and his brothers Black and Red.

I'm not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black person to hold our president accountable for his actions.

A black-sharded lady keeps me in a parrot cage.

With black people, there are 50 Hitlers over the course of history.

We're ready for a real black President - someone like Jay-Z. Obama's fine, just not all black. He's our gateway Negro.

We were poor. we were so poor, in my neighborhood the rainbow was in black-and-white.

It can never be bad to have a foundation as a man - a black man - in a time when women are dying for men. Women have started to become lovers of each other as a result of not having enough men.

I'm the ghetto Martha Stewart, the black Rachel Ray.

Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.

When you get a black belt, it’s not the number of techniques you know, but how well you know them.

How hard is hitting? You ever walk into a pitch-black room full of furniture that you've never been in before and try to walk through it without bumping into anything? Well, it's harder than that.

They used to say, 'If we find a good black player, we'll sign him.' They was lying.

In all fields black consciousness seeks to talk to the black man in a language that is his own

Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.

Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.

Every man should own a navy cashmere jacket with gold buttons, a grey suit, black shoes shoes for the city, brown shoes for elsewhere. Everything else should be simple and really well made.