Black Quotes
Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?
We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.
I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.
I'm still trying to change the way people see black dancers that we can become delicate dancers, that we can be a ballerina.
Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village.
In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.
There is no one right now in my judgment that can unite the Black electorate in such a way to present our agenda to a nominee to have them forthrightly address our concerns.
Life's piano can only produce melodies of brotherhood (and sisterhood) when it is recognized that the black keys are as basic, necessary and beautiful as the white keys.
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.
I'm not that interested in fashion... When someone says that lime-green is the new black for this season, you just want to tell them to get a life.
I would like to involve myself in some black music. I would like to do some blues and some gospel music. I want to try stuff from other genres and try to widen my musical base.
Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.
Colour disturbs people. I am confident in black, not in light. This dark side of life is attractive to me forever and from the beginning. I am a lazy designer when it comes to colour.
I ain't going to jail no more. The only way we gonna stop them white men from whuppin' us is to take over. What we gonna start sayin' now is Black Power!
Man has ruled this world as a stumbling demented child king, long enough. And as his empire crumbles, my precious black widow shall rise as his most fitting successor.
Though it be a thrilling and marvellous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so - doubly dynamic - to be young, gifted and black.
Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.
O comfort-killing night, image of hell, Dim register and notary of shame, Black stage for tragedies and murders fell, Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!
If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.
I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.
I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.
I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.
Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America — that and a sense of humor that just couldn't be enslaved.
There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and why.
Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me.
Within three months I had gone from being this black sheep of the town to suddenly becoming a pop star.
You have a 45mm automatic pistol on your lap, and I have a 35mm camera on my lap, and my weapon is just as powerful as yours. (To Black Panther militant Eldridge Cleaver)
The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
If you're a Black artist, you could paint a wall of smiley faces, and someone will still ask you, 'Why are you so angry?'
Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the work, not whether you call them a black artist or not.
America is White and Black and Latino and Asian. America is mixed. America is immigrants.
I'm usually all about the tight jeans and little T-shirt, but sometimes I want to put on a black, sequined dress and be a freaking girl
A lot of people don't understand the Black Panthers Party's relationship with white mother country radicals.
Republicans think that the NAACP is the only voice in the black community. It is a voice in the black community. But it's not the only voice.
The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more.
Teach the student what needs to be taught. 'Cause black and white kids both take shorts When one doesn't know about the other one's culture, Ignorance swoops down like a vulture.
