Black Quotes

I know a lot of people think it's monotonous, down the black lines over and over, but it's not if you're enjoying what you're doing. I love to swim and I love to train.

We need more male black teachers, tempting them with extra cash if necessary.

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.

I can't wait for the oil wells to run dry, for the last gob of black, sticky muck to come oozing out of some remote well. Then the glory of sail will return.

It aint about black or white cause we're human

I guess cause i'm black boy, I'm supposed to say 'peace', sing songs, and get capped on.

I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.

In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.

When, like an Emir of tyrannic power, Sirius appears, and on the horizon black Bids countless stars pursue their mighty track.

The efforts of Black Lives Matter to bring attention to the all-too-frequent instances of unjustified violence being used by policemen may not be paying off as quickly as some might hope.

Stirless, I stand at the window, and in the black bowl of the sky glows like a golden drop of honey the mellow moon

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

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.

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.

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.

Why do you wear a mask and hood?" I think everybody will in the near future," was the man in black's reply. "They're terribly comfortable.

O wretched state! o bosom black as death!

An old black ram is tupping your white ewe

Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.' Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces; Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces

No visor does become black villainy so well as soft and tender flattery.

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

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

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

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

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

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.

Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.

The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.

It is early, early morning. It's that time when it's still dark but you know the day is coming. Blue is bleeding through black. Stars are dying.

You know, Jacob, if it weren’t for the fact that we’re natural enemies and that you’re also trying to steal away the reason for my existence, I might actually like you.

A mathematician makes plans to travel backwards in time through a wormhole to a parallel universe when he can't even make it to Mars with the fastest rocket on hand today.

I always get the 'goth girl' thing because I wear black. But I don't worship death.

I've gotten nothing but warmth from the Black community and positive feedback.

We're going to have to debunk the myth that Africa is a heaven for black people -- especially black women. We've been the mule of the world there and the mule of the world here.

There was a great deal of inbreeding between the Indians and the slaves. Genetically speaking, black people are some part black, some part European.

Black-and-white photos tell the truth. That's why insurance companies use them.

The world has white people and black people in it. Even in Harlem.

Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts.

I'm not romanticizing black people, because we've got gangsters like everybody else.

These people didn't know anything about black people, so the only thing they could imagine was the worst thing.

It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you're associating with black people.

I personally don't enjoy films that bring black people down. I find that a majority of the films that black people are starred in nowadays, are ones focused on gang violence or dancing.

You're a black belt in the 1st round but sometimes you're a purple belt in the 5th.

We've got to have a legacy of leadership. We've got to bring along with us a generation of black women who are going to confront twenty-first-century realities.

Life is much more complex than the black-and-white sound bites that you get on television. There are nuances and shades of gray.

... black women have always found that in the social order of things we're the least likely to be believed--by anyone.

There's no place like New York to engage so many wonderful people who care about black people.

When I first heard bands like Tortoise, it seemed to come off the back of that world, like let's make a record with three vibraphones and release it on a seven-inch with black-and-white artwork.

I believe that Christianity trains black people, especially black women, to think like slaves, and I believe that Islam is mainly fueled by its hatred for women.

I do remember being teased by my cousins on my mom's side for not being black enough. And then I'd spend the summer with my dad and be sent to all white summer camps where I was 'that black girl.'