Black Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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.

There's a long history of saying certain people shouldn't be voting. And, unfortunately, the people who are often left out of these conversations are people who are black and brown.

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

He whom the gods love dies young.

Five pieces every girl needs in her closet are; a great pair of a jeans, a good black heel, a great little black dress, tank tops for layering, and a jacket that can be worn day or night.

The twilight is long fingers and black hair.

People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfeld next to me.

You know how we'd get along better? If everybody'd just remember how we're all related. White, black, Asian, skin. No difference. All the bloodlines go back to that one old mama in Africa.

We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and white.

It would be a horrible mistake for black people to say, as some have said, "We don't recognize him..." If you refuse to deal with him (Bush), the resources at his disposal will be given to others.

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are.

You can't be what you don't see. I didn't think about being a doctor. I didn't even think about being a clerk in a store, I'd never seen a black clerk in a clothing store.

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

It's interesting, gender versus race. I think people say that to women more: 'Oh, you're my favorite female.' They wouldn't say 'favorite black comic.'

Go down to the Republican headquarters. They ain't got a single black working there. Not one.

I earned a black belt when I was in high school. And I did a lot of boxing and full contact karate in college.

Life is never straightforward or emotionally black and white.

I thought comedians had to have black on their faces or red beards.

I don't like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.

White, black and yellow men - they all cry salt tears.

I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year.

In the sense that I also try to reflect the fullness of the black experience, I’m very much a jazz poet.

I try to do much of the necessary alteration on the black and white [cartoons] rather than leave it to be done on the paintings.

I do not look at the world in terms of black and white - and I find people who do rather scary. I think it's all shades of grey.

Planned Parenthood has been far more lethal to black lives than the KKK ever was. And the Democrat Party and the black civil rights allies are partners in this genocide.

In my political life I spoke before leftist groups, before black activist groups that I disagreed with, to explain my position and to support my legislation.

Racial oppression of black people in America has done what neither class oppression or sexual oppression, with all their perniciousness, has ever done: destroyed an entire people and their culture.

Did the poet use red to symbolize blood? Anger? Lust? Or is the wheelbarrow simply red because red sounded better than black?

You are — truly your father’s son, Harry. . . .

Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast.

And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight.

No number of sightings of white swans can prove the theory that all swans are white. The sighting of just one black one may disprove it.

Oh, the self-importance of fading stars. Never mind, they will be black holes one day.

I read the script, and I knew it was a good part. It was written for a white actor. That's what I'm up against - I have to try to make roles happen for me that aren't written black.

It's about you. If you win, it's you; if you lose, it's you. Black and white. Nowhere to hide.

You don’t understand — there are things worth dying for!

I write from a people's point of view. I love people because I understand them. I understand an enemy, I understand a friend, I understand grey areas, and I understand black areas.

Another head - and a black alpaca jacket and a serviette this time - to tell us coffee is ready. Not before it is time, too.

The Black Parade is an epic, theatrical, orchestral, big record that is also a concept album.

You never cared enough to be Black

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.

We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community.

Before Elvis, everything was in black and white. Then came Elvis. Zoom, glorious Technicolor.