Black Quotes

I was wearing black clothes almost from the beginning. I feel comfortable in black. I felt like black looked good onstage, that it was attractive, so I started wearing it all the time.

How did we suddenly become entranced with gangster culture? I saw it this morning on campus. When did the black community say we should all look like criminals?

He seemed wild and dangerous and carefree--well, he would, would'nt he? What were motorcycles and black leather pants if not the uniform of a wild, dangerous and carefree man?

Black child poverty is higher. As I write in the epilogue, "Yes we can. No he didn't. President [Barack] Obama didn't push black people backward, but he missed the opportunity to move us forward."

Here's the problem: the description of the world is always reduced to yes or no, black or white. Superficial stories. Superhero stories. One side is the good one. The other one is evil.

There's no Chanel collection without black. (It) will never exist. Who can live without some black clothes.

I'm racist against non-black people.

Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force.

For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.

At the KFC there's, lot of black people there innit *laughs*

Shakespeare must be a black girl.

I love good old-fashioned black or white Converse. I have a few pairs. And they are all really dirty. I can't have clean Converse - I go in the dirt and run around!

Having grown up in a segregated environment in the south I know what it's like to be stepped on, I know what it's like also to see some black hero do well in the face of adversity.

I don't want the Obama era to be more about symbolism than substance when it comes to black people. I love him, but I love black people even more.

Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy

I saw the Supremes when they were still singing in little black skirts and white blouses.

It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later.

We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.

Life is not black and white when it comes to perception.

There was no violence, no speed. It moved to the rhythm of an elder dance, putting all the rituals of the world to shame. Black, silver, gold and moon-opal, night and sea, fire, earth, air and water.

I can't stand black guys. I would never touch one. It's gross.

When a Cat adopts you, and I am not superstitious at all I don't mean only Black cats there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it and wait until the wind changes.

You would never expect a black woman to be the hero.

The way I was brought up by my parents and guided through my football life by the influences of various managers means that in some ways I am black and white.

If black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people?

I like the black and white movies on AMC.

The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.

Blue to get ready Green to go Yellow to guide you through the snow Orange to warn you that over you’ll go Then red will be the final glow Now seek the black, there’s no going back.

Specifically for black women, our images and our bodies in the media and in history have been so hypersexualized.

Let’s just say it’s not a stereotype that Black women are less submissive and harder to deal with. Being around them Black women made me really miss my wife.

The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.

I am for Obama, all the way. I dont support Obama just because he is a black man; I support him because he is an educated black man. He is making black people proud.

Black America Has Allowed Itself to Be Used by Race-Baiters and White Liberal Elitists

Sleep is out... tired is the new black.

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.

Nothing is going to happen to you if you throw salt on the floor, stand under a ladder, or see eight black cats on the street.

People are gonna look up to me because I'm young, black, and female.

Nationwide about 1 in 7 black men are temporarily or permanently disenfranchised due to felon disenfranchisement laws.

And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk.

Face your reality. You, black or white, are not innocent anymore. Either you have the courage to face it or you will go down together with the whole idea of the American Dream.

We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.

I've always laughed at the term "female director" or even "black director." A director's a director.

The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed

Books were my pass to personal freedom.

I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.

I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.

There are eyes half defiant, Half meek and compliant; Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm To bring us good or to work with harm.

When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers.

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.

When I introduced a black soldier, Lt. Flap, in 1971, the Stars and Stripes banned the strip. They were having racial problems and thought it would increase the tensions.