Black Quotes

If you look at the true essence of the Black Panthers, they were more of a community protection group.

Being a blues singer is like being black two times.

And just as you can find hip-hop lyrics beating up on all these groups, including young Black men themselves, the primary producers of the music, you can also find lyrics celebrating them.

In many ways [those middle-aged black ladies] my touchstone, because they are what I meant when I talked about the audacity of hope.

White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others.

If you're black and you oppose a progressive agenda, and you're pro life, and you're pro family, then they do not even know what to call you. You end up on some watch list for extremists.

There's an old saying in the black community that everybody else is protected and served but we are policed, we don't want to be policed. We want to be protected and served as any American citizen.

That's why Black Lives Matter thinks I'm so great. The fact of the matter is that everything is consciousness. This conversation is important.

If you are still alive when you read this, close your eyes. I am under their lids, growing black.

New Jersey Mayor Corey Booker last night personally rescued a woman from a burning building. Or as Fox News reported it, 'black man loots house, steals white woman.'

It somehow became an article of faith on the right that Obama is the most extreme president in American history. Although, when they say that, I think what they really mean is...he's black.

What mostly prevents black people from voting is that drug laws send them to prison, and then they can't vote.

I doubt anything will really come of this lawsuit. First of all, it's a lawsuit. It involves a subpoena. And try to find a Republican who will be willing to be seen serving a black man.

They said the black oil wouldn't come ashore. Well, it is ashore. It's here to stay and it's going to keep coming.

Black is the Color and none is the number

Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.

When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only white man in this unit full of black men.

Not since the Black Panthers sailed into their Upper East Side tea party has there been so daffy an exercise in radical chic.

We see his smile of love even when others see nothing but the black hand of death smiting our best beloved.

Faith pulls the black mask from the face of trouble, and discovers the angel beneath.

I think overseas viewers assume that Black Mirror is written by the Unabomber, essentially - a Ludd­ite, technology-hating, angry old man waving his fist at the App Store.

Overall, looking at the stories [Black Mirror], almost every story we've ever done is concerned with authenticity or reality in some way.

In comedy writing, a sitcom plot is basically the same thing: What's the worst thing that could happen? But you're playing it for comic effect. It's a similar muscle being used with Black Mirror.

I wear white or pale-blue shirts and black knit ties: They don't draw attention to me in any kind of peacockish way.

The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.

Donald Trump insisted yesterday that he is not racist, because one time an African-American won Apprentice. Because nothing says 'not racist' like making a black man run your errands.

They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.

I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white.

Boredom is not black licorice, Snicket," she said. "There's no reason to share it with me.

I love Black Sabbath. They made an amazing contribution to music today. Almost every band that made it big in the Nineties owed a debt to them.

I will be the first black James Bond.

Design in black and white. Add color for emphasis, when your design is complete.

God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone's sexual preferences are or if they're black, brown or purple.

The first black president will be a politician who is black.

I've always taken pride to be the white guy that can talk to the black people, that can refer to them truly as a brother from a different mother.

Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.

I want to explain how exhausted I am. Even in my dreams. How I wake up tired. How I’m being drowned by some kind of black wave.

America is still the best country for the common man -- white or black ... if he can't make it here he won't make it anywhere else.

Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.

I was born black, I attended all Negro schools including college, I grew up in the segregated South during Jim Crow. If anybody knows a racist, I do. Pat Buchanan ain't no racist.

There was already a deep black wordless conviction in him that the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin.

The only crime I'm guilty of is being a young black woman.

She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought.

Barack Obama will appeal to both black and white voters in America. White voters who'll think he's Tiger Woods.

The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.

Oh, Lady Maccon, I am unreservedly in love with her. That black hair, that sweet disposition, those capital hats.

I was one of the first three black students to go to an all-white school in Tennessee.

Oh, 'twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white, and fixed rules, and nary a shade of grey.

The fog lifted in the evening and a blue-black band at the horizon marked the end of the sea and the beginning of thought. Where does a beginning begin when nothing has gone on before?

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper.