Black Quotes

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

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.

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!)

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Black people have been killed for directing their gaze at the wrong person. I want my subjects to reclaim their right to look, to see, to be seen.

I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

Now, the black man here was so-called free by [Abe] Lincoln 100 years ago. The black man in America has an - has a purchasing power of 20 billion dollars. Now, and he's educated.

Elvis' disappearing body is like a flashing event horizon at the edge of the black hole that is America today.

I don't want to be known as the black model. I want to be recognized as Chanel Iman, a personality.

Love. The black hook. The spear singing through the mind.

Poor white people and poor black people just don't know how much they have in common. Rich people don't give a damn about either group.

My white girl Veronica, black girl Monica, Got me celebrating Christma-Hanu-Kwanzaa-kah, Rocking dashikis with a yarmulke.

Who are the slumlords in the Black community? The so-called Jews. … Who is it sucking our blood in the Black community? A white imposter Arab and a white imposter Jew.

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.

They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.

Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.

I really see food as subjective. It's a creative outlet. It's something that you do for fun. It's a gray area. It's not black and white or right and wrong.

The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better.

I like black because it is a vacant space.

I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.

After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.

For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.

When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.

I love to unwind and watch movies, especially those from the classic black-and-white era.

I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.

I work in colour sometimes, but I guess the images I most connect to, historically speaking, are in black and white. I see more in black and white - I like the abstraction of it.

I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal.

Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.

I would hold you up. I will ever hold you up and hold you dear, lover mine.

An old black ram is tupping your white ewe

The interesting thing about Georgia is, Atlanta is teeming with middle-class black people and black people with money - and yet there is still segregation.

I don't want to live in a monoculture of any kind. I don't want to live in a wealthy monoculture, a black monoculture. I don't want to live in an elitist, progressive monoculture.

I am proud of my black roots and of the black blood that runs in my veins.

So when you enjoy the beats, the rock music - maybe even toned down with an orchestra - you are enjoying the spirit of the black race. And that's what I emphasize to the students.

Americans are inclined to see the world and foreign affairs in black and white.

In March of 1933 we witnessed a revolution in manner, in mores, in the definition of government. What before had been black or white sprang alive with color.

I have found in black metal the lyrics are profoundly beautiful... a pathos and mythos at the same time.

I don't want to make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money. I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money.

I want to be the black Madonna.

So I just let go with one hand, and just sort of swung around, looked at the Earth below and the black space above and the sun over my shoulder. And, I mean, it was this incredible, spectacular view.

But rich or poor, black or white, none of us are entitled to anything.

Indians are the second largest population in the world, but we're invisible on TV - everything is either black or white.

Evolutionary cosmology formulates theories in which a universe is capable of giving rise to and generating future universes out of itself, within black holes or whatever.