Black Quotes

I also have been called that terrible "N" word straight to my face and not known what to do about it because it was just in like 1993 that someone called me that.

I carry one black mascara and one brown.

My breath in the cold air was bleach that accidentally spilled on a black t-shirt.

I don't know why we work, my husband and I. We just do. We are black and white - yin and yang.

Katz traces the courageous role of Black women in settling the West (and] deftly shows how these pioneering spirits helped stabilize early communities in Texas, Oklahoma, California and elsewhere.

If the tea party is so racist, how come when they have straw polls the black guy keeps winning?

When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.

The black revolt is as palpable in letters as it is in the streets.

I will not perform in this city as long as the blatant targeting of black culture and minorities congregating is acceptable common practice.

Go to the Black Sea, meet new people, see beautiful places, get killed by a mutant carnivorous kangaroo goat. One item off my bucket list.

A lot of great art comes from the Afro-American male experience. Black men are geniuses, and many times their desperation, their position as being pariahs, leads them to great originality.

‎It is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair.

When Patti Fox broke up with me, I typed her name over a thousand times on my manual Olivetti until the entire page was beaten into a stiff sheet of black ink.

The BALLPOINT PENGUINS, black and white, Do little else but write and write. Although they've nothing much to say, They write and write it anyway.

It feels great seeing posters everywhere, and bus stops promoting 'Black Nativity,' and billboards in Los Angeles. It's overwhelming. I can't wait for everybody to see what I got.

I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!

We used to be "shiftless and lazy," now we're "fearsome and awesome." I think the black man should take pride in that.

The black church will accept anybody.

My parents pressed upon me that "In this world, you are a black woman," so I was political about my hair and would not straighten it.

The two stallions, the silver and the black, represent the equine god (whomsoever horses pray to) in this ritual so ancient that no one knows what god to thank.

It is okay to cut your wife's throat as long as you are rich, famous—and black.

In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.

Black culture is very difficult to explain to people who don't have any direct contact with it.

You can be as critical as you want of Black Lives Matter. I'm critical of him, too. But to say that they have caused shooting of police officers, I think is a bridge too far.

Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.

Welcome to the real world, she said to me. Condescendingly. Take a seat. Take your life. Plot it out in black and white.

Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.

I wear the black for those who never read.

Whitney: You black-hearted, treacherous, conniving scoundrel. Clayton: Your flattery warms my heart

Black, like white, is the best color!

I've always thought that I've been strong in what I believe in. Not that I know what I believe for absolutely everything, but the things that I do believe, it's very black and white, and yes and no.

In a pitch black room, you can affirm "let their be light" or you can light one candle.

There is nothing gray about whether a follower of Christ should see 50 Shades of Grey. This is a black and white issue. Don’t go. Don’t watch it. Don’t read it. Don’t rent it.

Green is the new black: make the environment part of your personal brand.

I was in Paris last year, where there's a great appreciation of many different aspects of African culture and of black culture. The music... the art... whatever... And I kind of went with that.

My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the 60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family.

Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too.

I was guided by Allah (God) to give a yardstick to the voting public, particularly Black people as to what will set that candidate apart from others.

The black people in this country are taught that their religion and the best religion is the religion of Islam, and when one accepts the religion of Islam, he's known as a Muslim.

What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people [why] they hate him?

That's where Dr. [Martin Luther] King is mixed up. His goals should be the solution of the problem of the black man in America.

[Malcolm X] shared with Marcus Garvey a commitment to building strong black institutions. He shared with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a commitment to peace and the freedom of racialized minorities.

In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the New Left.

I've got a black-belt in crazy, and I know where you live.

I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white.

We must stand up and say, "I'm black and I'm beautiful," and this self-affirmation is the black man's need, made compelling by the white man's crimes against him.

The night is black, as black as night.

I said if you're thinkin' of being my brother, it don't matter if you're black or white.

Growing up in Jersey City was interesting. I got to learn a lot about different cultures: I had Hindu friends, Middle Eastern friends, black friends, Spanish friends.

Black metal seemed way deeper than anything else, and I kind of got addicted to it.