Black Quotes

What I am is a humanist before anything - before I'm a Jew, before I'm black, before I'm a woman. And my beliefs are for the human race - they don't exclude anyone.

Black, white, yellow, brown - we wanted somebody who would do right by us. And I think because Obama was that person, whether he was black or white, he was chosen

I'm a prodigal son. The black sheep of a white flock. I shall die on the gallows.

Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black.

But pearls are fair; and the old saying is: Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes.

We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.

Well it's not that I HATE them, but honestly if I saw two homeless people begging for money, one white and one black, and I only had one quarter... Well I'd probably keep it actually.

Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.

Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be a colony in a nation.

Fear of change was a weakness

The weight of the dead was heavier than the pounds of the body.

The fear of blacks has become the dirty little secret of our political culture.

When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.

I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.

Life is such a glorious trauma, is it not?

Western funerals: black hearses, and black horses, and fast-fading flowers. Why should black be the colour of death? Why not the colours of a sunset?

Why would I go looking for someone I know wants to kill me?

Black money is so much a part of our white economy, a tumour in the centre of the brain - try to remove it and you kill the patient.

Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.

Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.

Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.

Some people like living in black and white worlds. Let them stay there. Appreciate all the colors you see in your world though.

Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.

I'm against solutions that are worse than the problem. Like old women who want their hair dyed the color of shoe polish to hide the gray.

Gallows humor is part of having a doctor in the house. Deal with it.

Man, it was a good thing vampires didn't get cancer. Lately he'd been chain-smoking like a felon.

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.

I have four strikes against me. I'm black, I'm short, I'm intelligent, and I have a medical condition.

I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.

There are many positive things to say about the black community. No question about it.

All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.

Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.

Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.

Black Realism or cosmopolitan black politician is a code word to say this is a black person that is not tied to a civil rights/black power traditional black politics.

They oughtta change Black History Month to Black Progress Month and start measuring it.

It's a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children?

Blaxploitation films were black films targeting black people. They were films made to appeal to a culture in a way that was supposed to be unfiltered.

The easy answer is to say that it's a part for black people to see black heroes, but to me it's important to young Mexican kids to see a black hero.

You are not a black hole that needs to be filled; you are a light that needs to be shined.

Excited about Black Friday. Also excited about Jew Tuesday.

But nothing is all black in nature.

Most of the things that are asked of me as a representative black person, would suggest never are we equal Americans.

It isn't that black people are protected in America by the left; it's that black liberals are protected just as female liberals are protected, not conservatives.

Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.

Black women are supposed to be 'strong,' but the burden of carrying our race and carrying our families adds the pressure.

Historically, you've had really muddy, unforgiving, unintentional images of black people.

Feminism as a theoretical enterprise is approached differently by Black women depending on where we are. There are more reformist Black women who tend to use the phrase "Black feminism".

Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions of masculinity.

The fact is that it was bourgeois white feminism that I was reacting against when I stood in my first women's studies classes and said, "Black women have always worked."