Black Quotes

A giraffe has a black tongue twenty-seven inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe has nothing to say. He just goes on giraffing.

Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just another sexually abused barefoot black girl on the roads of Arkansas.

Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.

I thank God that the gospel is to be preached to every creature. There is no man so far gone, but the grace of God can reach him; no man so desperate or black, but He can forgive him.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Black people lived right by the railroad tracks and the train would shake their houses at night. I would hear it as a boy and I thought: I'm gonna make a song that sounds like that.

He [Cassius Clay] became a Black Muslim, which is a pseudo-religion for unbright neurotics who feel the need to hate all white people.

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town.

There is a higher law than the Constitution.

To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another.

The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again

You can have a film and have 200 white people working on it, and nobody finds anything wrong with that. But if you insist on having a black crew, all of a sudden there's something wrong.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.

They were close to the end of the beginning . . .

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.

a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.

From time to time, you may see a girl wearing her black opaque tights as pants. They are, in fact, not.

It's no accident that most of the great black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect and self-love.

It was always fun in the early days of Black Sabbath, when I stayed away from heavy drugs. Then someone gave me cocaine and I went, "Hallelujah!" I thought I'd found the meaning of life!

The black man in America is the same as the Jews were in bondage under Pharaoh. We are strangers in a land that is not ours. We are rejected by this type of modern Pharaoh or pharohnic society.

We send young white boys to the Army. We're sending young black boys to the prisons.

You didn't think of angels as white or black. They were angels.

The record companies really do conspire against the artists. Especially the black artists

I think it's important to represent black women and our natural hair. Not wearing a weave is totally beautiful and acceptable.

My most recent purchase was a black lace corset.

The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.

Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.

Little more black, little more blue. And we'll just put that in using little crisscross strokes or - or little X's, whatever you want to call them. Whatever.

Give me a black man, a white woman, a giraffe, a zebra anything but another white man! That last one f***ed up my roof!

I'm tired of having to consult a group of old white guys about my black girl craft. They don't even know what they're listening for or to.

Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.

I don't do drugs. Because my grandmother raised me. I think like an old, black, Southern woman. If I'd have done coke, I'd probably be cooking pancakes.

And I used to say, 'I'm black, too.' In other words, I - my whole life I've been called a half-breed, a convict, king of the trailer trash, this and that. I take that and stand.

I don't really feel McCain. It ain't just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression.

A black belt doesn't mean anything. The meaning is in the journey.

Tutankhamun was not black, and the portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilization as black has no element of truth to it.

Thoughtful white people know they are inferior to black people.

The way we value black beauty has changed. I'm single now, but back in the slave days, I would have never been single. I'm 6 feet tall and I'm strong. Look at me, I'm a Mandingo.

I'd like to do a reality show with four white people...who are dropped off in a really bad black neighborhood. And the show would be called...Cracker Hunt.

Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath

Niggerization is the result of oppression -- and it doesn't just apply to the black people. Old people, poor people, and students can also get niggerized.

You are a black goddess when you come out the salon.

I awaken. I consume oxygen, then bacon, eggs and black coffee, then my wife, then bacon.

I was born and raised in St. Louis, and this little town, eight blocks away, place no one ever heard of, a black man there commands the attention of the world for months? That ain't my world.

I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody.

Even as a dope fiend mama. You always was a black queen mama.

Tupac the son of the Black Panther, and Tupac the rider. Those are the two people inside of me. I was raised off those ideals.

They say African Americans. I say black people. I've only been to Africa once. I've been in America all my life!

When you are losing it can seem like there is a black cloud following you around, but like they say there is a silver lining in every cloud.