Black Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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?

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.

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

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'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.

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'm a black belt in tae kwon do.

When I was young, I loved black men.

When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game.

I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it.

Relations between black and white would be greatly improved if we were more accepting of our fears and our feelings and more vocal about it.

Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone.

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

I was kind of a dark kid. I loved Halloween, and I loved vampires and the black and white old monster movies.

I think things like food, the food of the south is sort of the common tie that binds us all, Black and White, the sense memories. It's a very particular part of the country.

My clothes are predominately black and my home is predominantly white.

I wasn't cocky, just confident; I went to an all black school, a white kid.

I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black.

A lot of people are wanting him [Barack Obama] to be the president just because he's black. But I think he does have some good views.

...one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used.

I think America loves cooperative black men. I am not against Colin Powell, but I know who he is.

Drugs bring in guns. They bring in all these black-on-black crimes.

The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.

You got two black folk representing us through the Sixties. One of them was for violence, one was against it, and they both are dead.

In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.

thus, in a sense, we are all doomed. even if we stay away from black holes

There's not too many rich black people in this world.

We [black actors] are more respected in Europe, because in Europe, I'm not a black actor - I'm an action star. In America, I'm a black actor.

Etching will suggest subtle variations of tone, the most delicate shadings, all with black lines, which, as far as lines go, are unsurpassed for sheer beauty.

We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.

In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black record - the first thing I did that was an actual record.

It is the mission of the printer to diffuse light and knowledge by a judicious intermingling of black with white.

It doesn't do any good to just be on the side of black people. The funnier comedic position is to be on the side of oppressed people in general.

There's a price tag on everything including black people's lives and what they do with them.

I just felt as though I would never be happy again, and as if I had fallen into a big black hole.

There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.