Black Quotes

Black is the queen of colours.

There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in America.

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.

The most dangerous thing in American society is a self-respecting and self-loving black person, because they're on the road to freedom and that means they're gonna run up against the powers that be.

I am Black because I come from the earth's inside now take my word for jewel in the open light.

Every person that steps up and commits to social change helps solidify the black movement cause. It is not easy for those who fill in the leader role.

I'm black, so, you know, I'm again with black folk, but it's a love that spills over to vanilla suburbs and red reservations and brown barrios and yellow slices.

I collect cars and bikes. One of my most special rides is a black 1930s Cadillac V16, and then I've got a few West Coast choppers.

I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white.

Did you know that the black suited organization that attacked the Koresh cult was a United Nations task force?

When I black out, it's the happiest time of my life.

If you understand the Black Lives Matter movement, there's no central leadership of the movement. This is an organic, grassroots movement all around America.

My name is Arsenio. That's a very unique name for a black man. In Greek, it means Leroy.

Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not as complete as many imagine.

I have a black look I do not like. It is a mask I try on. I migrate toward it and its frog sits on my lips and defecates.

I think I've been writing black poems all along, wearing my white mask. I'm always the victim ... but no longer!

My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London.

Like a cartoon world, where the figures are flat and outlined in black, jerking through some kind of goofy story that might be real funny if it weren't for the cartoon figures being real guys.

You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern.

The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of their prejudices toward Negroes.

Other lands became a larder full of all the good things All we had to do was go and take Blood the colour of the rain that grew our wicked harvest Black the colour icing on our cake

Nobody Black had learned anything from the 'Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the 'I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.

The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.

Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

Clouds of black birds rose up wailing and screaming, like the thoughts of my heart.

I've had two unlucky injuries that are the equivalent of walking under 1,000 ladders and seeing 1,000 black cats.

You mix the affluence of the white and the poverty of the black and you do not get a civilized society. Integration on an equal level is one thing. Mixing on an unequal level is another.

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

Back home the black women are all beautiful

I mean my goal is to get Michael Richards to do stand up at the Laugh Factory to an all black audience.

Celluloid will be the next decade's black and white.

Every day of my life I walk with the idea I am black no matter how successful I am.

It's hard to find black roles that are just whimsical and fun and colorful. And I think, in many ways, that can be just as powerful in making commentary about race through movies.

Another door swung open, and another guard appeared, this time with Gabrielle, who wore a black catsuit and rappelling harness.

I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.

What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel enough to stop the blood.

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

Animals like crows, owls or black cats are not ominous at all; it is the men's superstitious mind which is the inauspicious one!

I think that humanity is at an all-time low in how we value life, especially among young Black people. We just don't really value each other's lives .

In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee.

Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes!

If white and black and red and brown can come together to focus our energies on overcoming the racial malaise that persists, then this will have been a great moment.

I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man.

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.

If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.

I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.

I'm black, and black don't crack. It does droop.

People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.

The toes of our ratty black sneakers touched.