Black Quotes

Thank you, God, because I am lucky. Also let's face it, it turns out I'm black. And I'm having a career quite different from lots of people, so I feel doubly lucky.

In the dark, all cats are black.

Strange is the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies

So for Bullitt, I just put my black hat back on.

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.

I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.

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

I was the angriest little person imaginable when I was younger. I woke up with a frown every morning. I barely talked, wore black all the time and had some serious teenage rebellion years

All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called the chess-board white-we call it black.

Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes in a great many varieties, and black English is one of them.

I want to be the black Madonna.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 almost never do anything for Black History Month, because I feel it's just another way to separate us.

One of the burdens of being a black male is carrying the heavy weight of other people’s suspicions.

I can rap in a London accent, make weird faces, wear spandex, wigs, and black lipstick. I can be more creative than the average male rapper.

If it was so honorable and glorious to be black, why was it the yellow-skinned people among us had so much prestige?

Women that look like me [the black ones] need to see more of themselves in social media, in film, in music.

I feel you see every crack and bruise with black and white [pictiures] and color distracts usually from the honesty.

How does the light of a star set out and plunge into black eternity in its immortal course? The star dies, but the light never dies; such also is the cry of freedom.

Pure faith in the benevolece of the Divine can also degenerate into destructive forms of religion like othodoxy, fundamentalism, sectarianism, fanaticism, black magic and witchcraft.

Despite popular conviction, a writer needn't wear black, be unshaven, sickly and parade around New York's East Village spewing aphorisms and scaring children.

I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike a color film.

Thats what a ship is, you know. Its not a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. Thats what a ship needs. But what a ship is. What the Black Pearl really is . . . is freedom.

And what has become of it, where is that onetime love? Now it is the grave of a bird, a drop of black quartz, a chunk of wood eroded by the rain.

I wear black for those who never read or listen to the words that Jesus said, about the road to happiness, through love and charity.

When you hear my records today hear a vanilla sounding artist with no black inflection, although I was trying to imitate what I heard.

You will win with either color if you are the better player, but it takes longer with Black.

There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.

I think it's going to be great if people can buy a ticket to fly up and see black sky and the stars. I'd like to do it myself-but probably after it has flown a serious number of times first!

In tragedy, it's hard to find a good resolution; it's not black and white: it's a big fog of gray.

Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.

In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right.

In my experience I haven't met too many uptight black people. I'm sure they're out there. Like I'm some big authority and I've lived in the inner city and ghetto.

A flat black bug, that is London.

[My grandfather -a miner] had black lung, and he didn't talk about it much. It's almost like a combat veteran. But he witnessed some horrific things.

Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond, and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.

It is wonderful how much depends upon the relations of black and white A black and white, if properly balanced, suggests colour.

A rather honored guest of the Cuban government, so I wouldn't experience the problems. I think it would take a black Cuban to really articulate this because I'm being treated in a very generous way.

Black Sabbath wasn't like the Bon Jovis of the time. We were just a bunch of guys that were against the grain of society. And we sung about things that people thought back then.

Yeah I think Pitch Black was edgy, I think that's what worked for our film.

NHPrimary Trivia: The Republican candidates have not spoken to a black person since Herman Cain dropped out.

Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference.

Lonely dissent doesn't feel like going to school dressed in black. It feels like going to school wearing a clown suit.

It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.

Where else but in America can a poor black man like Michael Jackson grow up to be a rich white woman?

Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, have played an important role in enriching the lives of not just African Americans, but our entire country.