Black Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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 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!

Shakespeare must be a black girl.

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

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

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

I'm racist against non-black people.

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

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.

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."

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?

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?

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.

One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.

The saddest fact I've learned is nobody matters less to our society than young black women. Nobody.

Even pirates, before they attack another ship, hoist a black flag.

The most interesting thing about being alive is that there is no black and white; there are many shades of gray.

A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.

The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it.

I remember being on a black-and-white set all day and then going out into daylight and being amazed by the colour.

A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people.

With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and disfiguration meet.

I think that Malcolm X was the most remarkable historical figure produced by Black America in the 20th century.

Eddie [Murphy] is an icon. He's one of the reason why I started doing comedy in the beginning. He opened a lot of doors for black people.

I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.

Whether the color of your skin is black, white, yellow, brown or purple - the extent of this tragedy is so incredibly devastating that we had to do something.

Actually, when I was little I even dreamed about riding a black cat.

Christmas is the season when you buy this year's gifts with next year's money.

It has taken us that long to get the deaf, dumb, and blind black men in the wilderness of North America to wake up and understand who they are.

Naturally we need black men to give this movie serious credibility.

The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it.

At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat.

If Lady Gaga is like an orange Bugatti Veyron, then I am like a black 1970 Chevelle.

God is going to punish the white man for his misdeeds toward black people.

In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.

She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn's wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks... (iViva la Gloria!)

At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports.

I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days.

It's never black and white on 'Game of Thrones.' If you think it's black and white, you're watching it wrong.

Corn wind in the fall, come off the black lands, come off the whisper of the silk hangers, the lap of the flat spear leaves.

I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we're complicated.

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, And black despair succeeds brown study.