Black Quotes

For years I wouldn't listen to black metal from anywhere but Norway.

I'm still learning who I am. One minute I have black hair, the next it's red. One day I'm wearing Converse sneakers, and the next I'm in the hippie look.

You always want to keep your look clean and elegant, but you don't have to do the safe black-dress route. Have some fun! Wear something colorful with a hint of sparkle.

The time is past when Christians in America can take a long spoon and hand the gospel to the black man out the back door.

My car is always black. I really struggle with red cars. I don't want to attract too much cop attention.

Rather than spend so much time wondering if I'm going to get hired, or is it a problem that I've got this black-tar history, I've just got to keep doing what I'm doing and try to be decent.

Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind. Those who accept it are poor; those who struggle are middle class.

The physician knows that his little black bag can carry him only so far and that the body's own healing system is the main resource.

Eyes watching always Shadows in shadows they wait A black feather falls First accepted, loved Then betrayed-spit in the face Vengeance sweet like dots.

What does it mean to be too black for Hollywood? It's self-explanatory. Hollywood has certain kinds of blacks that they like.

Even somebody like The Black Keys or Royal Blood, they all have this original roots base to what they do.

I'm a bit of a Scotophile. I have a house on the Black Isle, so I'm in Scotland quite a lot and think Edinburgh is just the most beautiful city.

The outside world is black and white with only one color dead.

The new Black doesn't blame other races for our issues.

King and Arum are alike. One's black and one's white. That's the only difference.

I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.

In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours.

I am a product of every other black woman before me who has done or said anything worthwhile. Recognizing that I am part of history is what allows me to soar.

Ever since the civil rights movement, the black church has always encouraged people to utilize their voting right, which is a right that was fought for.

I never thought I could write anything or do a show sober, ever. But I did the Black Sabbath shows sober, and it was so much better fun for me, and everybody.

I heard someone say that all black people got rhythm. Bullshit.

There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.

If comics are modern mythology, then black participation and representation is crucial.

Science casts a long black shadow back over who we think we are, and where it falls the temperature falls with it. Its touch is chilly and unforgiving.

I don't think the white establishment will ever respect or appreciate a black man who speaks the truth.

All men look nerdy in black socks and sandals.

Don't even FRONT like you love your family, America, or God, if you don't have a DETAILED & REHEARSED Black Friday tactical shopping plan.

Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approachesTam maun ride; That hour, o'night's black arch the key-stane, That dreary hourTam mounts his beast in.

I love going to black churches, and I love some of these black preachers. The best preacher I ever saw in my life was a 93-year-old in a black church in Hamilton, Virginia. What a preacher!

Better have a black face than be worried about black deeds.

I was dressed up as a witch for Halloween, and wanted to write a story about my black cat before I went out trick-or-treating. I think it went out with the trash the next day.

Back in those days, all us skinny white British kids were trying to look cool and sound black. And there was Hendrix, the ultimate in black cool. Everything he did was natural and perfect.

The Holocaust would never have happened if black people lived in Germany in the 1930s and 40s … well, it wouldn't have happened to Jews.

I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the "black people's CNN." Well now, hip-hop is more like Fox News. It's biased, and highly suspect.

It's hard for a black man to raise a family.

If you only have work clothes - the black trouser and ribbed turtleneck you got four years ago at the Gap - you're not participating in your own style personality.

Just as with cars, it's critical to know the fuel efficiency of black holes.

Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.

"I'm Black". I think that's the best song I ever made in my whole life.

This morning the electricity came on for a few minutes, and when it did, Jonny said, "Hey, it's a black-on." This is what passes for humor around here.

Jealousy can open the blood, it can make black roses.

Bright beads of red are rising through the ink, Hearts-blood bubbles smearing out into the black stream

There's drama in everything. That's why I love movies. Like Welcome to the Dollhouse, I'm a 350-pound black man, and I could understand what it was like to be a little white girl.

Black care rarely sits behind the rider whose pace is fast enough.

Anton brings the camera. I'll bring a tuba, wear black, not shave, and take us to a burned-down Chinese restaurant. (On being photographed by his longtime photo collaborator Anton Corbijn)

I lived my life as a - as a part-white, part-black but then sometimes-Jewish kid.

I remember Marvin Gaye used to sing to me, He had me feelin' like black was the thing to be.

All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.

Why did the reindeer wear black boots? Because his brown ones were all muddy!

You don't have a baby based on that publicity madness. People don't live like that. Especially black people who were raised in families with morals and standards and integrity.