Black Quotes

In the dark, all cats are black.

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.

Everybody says it: black, white; everybody calls me a legend. Italians, Jews. Everybody

I'm a dark blonde, yes. I dyed my hair blue, then black, when I was 14. I thought the colour was more flattering and matched my skin tone. I don't think I'd ever change back unless it was for a film.

My songs don't play on pop radio; they play on black radio.

The black players at this club lend the side a lot of skill and flair, but you also need white players to balance things up and give the team some brains and common sense.

I was up watching Meet Joe Black at four AM. I was hoping Brad Pitt would die, and he was still alive at seven forty in the morning! I actually felt sorry for once, for critics.

Iron was black and sheenless, but cleansing and polishing washed away its blackness.

You have to look at the fact that Hip Hop is under attack. It's not just Hip Hop but Black people, Latino people and all people are under attack for different things.

It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Colonialism has a bad reputation in the modern context, but Colonial Africa was a far better place for both black and white before the colonists gave up.

When I was young, I loved black men.

I'm a black belt in tae kwon do.

If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?

I've heard that Black people and Black faces don't sell magazines, but one day you're going to beg me to be on there.

I went to an historically black college where we're always told that there's limitation. And so I'm happy to represent for black colleges.

I have no interest in romanticizing poor black people, having been one of them myself in our beloved hometown of Detroit.

Black Power If the motive is good, and there are no other possibilities, then seen most deeply it [violence] is nonviolence, because its aim is to help others.

Abortion is black genocide...What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?

You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.

I did have fun, for example, in The Black Hole which was very popular among youngsters.

In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.

From about the age of 5, I was aware that I didn't fit. I was the black, atheist kid in the all-white, Catholic school run by nuns. I was an anomaly.

Governments would rather spend their money on another bomber than education, and why do we fear black men when every bit of suffering in our lives has a Caucasian face attached to it?

If you force me to pick one color, it'd be Black... It covers up the things inside of me that I don't want to be known. Well, for the same reason, black is the color I hate, too.

I know most of the black players who preceded and followed me at Duke. They all contribute to our tradition of excellence on the court.

Throughout history there have been black people who have played mammies, all sorts of offensive images, who didn't mind doing it.

Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.

Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light.

Racing does to white guys what movies do to black guys.

Have you ever hung a piece of black velvet behind you and looked at yourself in the mirror? We are each of us quite alone, and that's what I try to paint.

While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level it is often a claim- or arrogation- of power to stifle the autonomy of others.

We don't have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There's a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it's not like a piece of Washington or Chicago.

…a cheerful black shadow reared up behind him as he spoke, thundering a happy challenge to my Dark Passenger, which slid forward and bellowed back.

You might be a redneck if your favorite Christmas present was a painting on black velvet.

If you're black in America, race is a factor in your life. Start with that assumption.

A rare bird upon the earth and very much like a black swan.

Stanley Kubrick went with his gut feeling: he directed 'Dr. Strangelove' as a black comedy. The film is routinely described as a masterpiece.

It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there were even black and white Bibles to swear to tell the truth on in many parts of the South.

In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either.

In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.

The more advanced the teacher, the better for you. The fifth degree black belt is so expert that they will understand that you're a beginner and throw you perfectly so that no harm will befall you.

Sure to prove indispensable for the study of Black Power.

For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.