Black Quotes

When I'm not working I just like to be comfortable: I love black, nothing tight, no heels, no make-up - it's nice to be able to breathe!

My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Storm. Whinnying and jumping over bamboo poles in the garden took up pretty much my entire childhood.

It's amazing that people still feel, 'Oh my gosh, it's a black guy.' We've been here for a long time; let's get used to it. Let's get used to other cultures.

When you say black lives matter, that's inherently racist.

My limo driver's white, my attorney black... 'Show me some love' like I'm Bernie Mac.

Look at me - a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.

Because the Republican Party are filled with cowards they're afraid to reach out to the Hispanic community, they're afraid to reach out to the black community.

[T]here's nobody Black in charge of anything in Hollywood.

The Mississippi is not the only river. There's the Tallahatchie and the Big Black. People have been put in the river year after year, these things been happening.

Little black horse. Where are you taking your dead rider?

I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place.

It's definitely an intrinsic part of my makeup that makes me want to see black when everyone else is seeing white.

Black is not sad... Black is poetic.

Who could imagine a poet wearing anything other than black?

I love seeing people's reactions to gifts that I've created from my line, such as my gold horn ring, bottle openers, my 'Fallen' leather jacket and my Slither black and white sweater.

If, with the nation watching, three black women at three different levels can't get justice... for this community, you tell me where you're going to get it in our country.

There's a hole in the world Like a great black pit And the vermin of the world Inhabit it ... And it goes by the name of London.

Did you know, you're sort of beautiful?' 'You hit your head pretty hard, didn't you?

It's not what you are. It's what you do.

Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking.

I haven't acquired a taste for green tea, and I don't intend to. I like my coffee black with a little sugar, and it keeps my metabolism up! I don't mind the occasional Gatorade while I'm gymming.

Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and the second half refusing to let black people define me.

Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no information can be passed back out of the hole.

Take it from someone who's read the Wikipedia entry: this is how the Ottoman Empire was won: madden horsemen fueled by lethal jet-black coffee-mud.

Colorism is not a good thing, especially when you're Black.

So, how come Jacob Black gets to give you a gift and I don't? Because I have nothing to give back to you. Bella, you give me everything just by breathing.

We’ve gone through the names—Negro, African American, African, Black. For me that’s an indication of a people still trying to find their identity. Who determines what is black?

Between black and white there throbs the universe of chromatic phenomena.

I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.

All I know is I've tried my best.

Do you know out of what the German Empire arose? Out of dreams, songs, fantasies and black-red-gold ribbons? Bismarck merely shook the tree that fantasies had planted.

In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.

A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.

Major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound skepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.

Miracles happen all the time. We're here, aren't we?

I will continue wearing the white hat and black mask until I ride up into the big ranch in the sky.

Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.

When you first start to do jiu-jitsu everyone has the goal of being a black belt. You want to be great at everything you do.

My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.

All I want is to know things. The black gulph of the infinite is before me.

The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around.

Brilliant lecturers shouldn't be wasted in lecture rooms: they should appear onTV. We need black market universities, in which people just help each other, and which don't leave out the poor.

I guess Madden had seen everything with out group, and everybody else had seen everything. (After coming to practice field riding a horse and wearing a German WWI helmet painted silver and black)

When I say the n-word, black people are clear that I'm on their side. And it's not disingenuous - I am on black people's side, clearly.

. . . no Black woman can become an intellectual without decolonizing her mind.

Making a movie is like a chess game. It's about constantly changing patterns, adapting to new things. It's not just black and white, as you know.

Why can't we have fine black restaurants with fine service by black people who always gave good service? Because we thought that is demeaning and it's not, it's a good living.

People say all lives matter. And that's true, but it's just black people that are getting shot in the back running or choked to death for having cigarettes or playing their music too loud.

Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not survive.

Some black filmmakers will say, "I don't want to be considered a black filmmaker, I'm a filmmaker." I don't think that. I'm a black woman filmmaker.