Black Quotes

Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.

I'm not black, but there's a whole lot of times I wish I could say I'm not white.

When I was perceived as a black man I became a threat to public safety. When I was dressed as myself, it was my safety that was threatened.

I think my friends wife has been banging a black guy. Because they just had a baby. And the baby had a hole in it.

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.

The empowerment of black women constitutes the empowerment of our entire community.

I love black thighs, you sisters better realize That real hair and real eyes get real guys. So before you makeup your face, you better make up your mind.

To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.

The mere physical man is like the ant crawling on the paper, who observes black lettering and attributes its production to the pen and nothing more.

Just wearing all black comes from Johnny Cash. I'm on the road so much that if I wear all black my clothes never get dirty. You can't tell if I've worn the same shirt twice.

I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.

Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, becausetime has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.

Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth.

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.

Never give in, never back down.

I am no more proud of my career as an athlete than I am of the fact that I am a direct descendant of that noble warrior [Chief Black Hawk].

I'm for the poor man - all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. 'Every man a king' - that's my slogan.

One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.

Love is the new denim or black

Words can bruise and break hearts, and minds as well. There are no black and blue marks, no broken bones to put in plaster casts, and therefore no prison bars for the offender.

To be young, gifted and black!

I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.

The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality.

Black eyeliner says 'You've been through stuff, you know things'.

It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.

I hope there is something worthy in my writings and not merely the novelty of a black face associated with the power to rhyme that has attracted attention.

Where you are right now blast some music and forget.

I dreamt that I could paint you with words, but there were no colors bright enough, black or white enough, blue or green enough...they didn't mean enough

I'm convinced that we Black women possess a special indestructible strength that allows us to not only get down, but to get up, to get through, and to get over.

In the gun game, we are the most hunted. The river of blood that washes the streets of our nation flows mostly from the bodies of our black children.

We're going to fight racism not with racism, but we're going to fight with solidarity. We say we're not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we're going to fight it with socialism.

What doctor does not need platform heels and dark black eyeliner to treat their patients?

When I sing, I don't want them to see that my face is black; I don't want them to see that my face is white - I want them to see my soul. And that is colorless.

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.

And the people who say things to you about the way you look and the way you dress, they have nothing more to their lives. That's all they do, and you have something more in you.

We lost the skyline We stepped right off the map Drifted into black space And let the clocks relapse.

We're hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that?

Stop saying you're not racist because you have a friend that's black. That's like saying you're not a pedophile because you have a friend that's a kid.

Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.

Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.

I had explained that a woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan

Of those who start TaeKwonDo training, only about 5% stick with it until they achieve the Black Belt Rank. Then perhaps 80% of those who earn a Black stop there.

If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower.

I wasn't always black... there was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.

I think that black Africa is extremely terrifying. Black Africa can become a maelstrom of warring tribes without the outside world needing to feel the need to do anything about it.

The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates.

Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?