Black Quotes

The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.

I'm just honest. They [asians] don't want to see black people generally in their movies.

I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work

I'm against an all-white anything or an all-black anything.

There were very few black people in Montana but we never felt out of place.

I love seeing black people do normal things, being judged as normal people.

Black History Month is in the shortest month of the year, and the coldest-just in case we want to have a parade

If women were in charge of everything, there would be women tyrants. If black people were in charge, there would be black tyrants. If Hispanics were in charge, then Hispanic tyrants.

We wanted black power to be all things to all people.

This is the very center of everything there is. A huge black hole eating up the galaxy. The end of everything.

Utah could elect its first black Republican woman to Congress. In other words, Utah finally got one black person and the first thing they want to do is send her to Washington.

I think we must never, ever demonize one another. That's true not just black people to black people; that's human being to human being.

Black people have been working hard for decades.

I'm making black music. That's the only outline for me, really. That's the only boundary to stay with. It's soul music. I'm going all out in those terms.

I don't celebrate Valentine's Day. It gets in the way of Black History Month. Cupid didn't free any slaves.

In The Black Power Mixtape , you hear the voice of Angela Davis - not someone playing Angela Davis.

The Black Power Mixtape is a documentary, first of all. It brings us closer to the voices we heard at that particular point in time.

People from Europe and people from Africa encountered one another long before the invention of "Europe" and "Africa" and "white people" and "black people."

I think until Britain acknowledges just how much of a presence black people had here before the Sixties, then there are certain stories that are not going to be inclusive of what I have to offer.

I love that as a black person I've experienced not being a minority. I think that's helped me to combat the minority mentality people can have here, which can stop them scaling the heights.

I like to describe my life as a black hole with a little light out there.

[Black people] come into the world exactly like you. It's just that there are circumstances in the culture that are dictated and put on our lives that we have to fight against.

People in apartheid South Africa can tell you that God cursed black people when they cursed Him. And so the hermetic people were condemned to be drawers of water and of wood.

If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something.

Films portraying successful black people getting married are great, but films that only show one aspect of our culture, bother me.

Noir is where the clarity of moral divisions break down, the black and whites turn into grays.

I could depend a lot on my shaking, though I never shimmied vulgarly and only to express myself.

I made this movie for $40,000, which was this little black-and-white horror film called Dementia 13, which we made in about nine days.

anymore time in that black hole and ill go insane.

My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.

A bear! A bear! All black and brown and covered in hair!

I guess to the outside observer, all my movies look like musty old black-and-white artifacts, but my earlier movies had been more static and tableaux-ish.

I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery.

The Black church is extremely important in Black America. I think most Americans themselves believe in a divine power, in a god, and I'm sure that that number increases with Black people.

Her voice was like a line from an old black-and-white Jean-Luc Godard movie, filtering in just beyond the frame of my consciousness.

It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people.

I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.'

Respectfully, 'Awkward Black Girl' was never meant to be politically correct. We poke fun at ignorance.

It's very funny, American society: White culture can do all sorts of things and get away with it, but the minute a black person does it, it's interpreted in some way.

For black women our sense of ourselves is not always consistent with the way other people see us.

As black folks we're always sensitive. As a black person it's always racial.

I always carry my classic black-and-white tux and custom-made George Esquivel saddle shoes.

I've always known the greatness of black people.

I draw rainbows whenever I see them, with my black ink pen. When I have collected enough, I thought I might make a book called Black-and-White Rainbows.

John Kerry and Ralph Nader met face-to-face, it was a historic meeting. Astronomers said today their meeting actually created what is called a 'charisma black hole.'

It would be much easier to just make black, brown and beige clothes. But I do not see the world in black and white and beige. I find colors incredibly important.

I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African diaspora, people of this region, and throughout the south.

The impact of black music and black art forms on American culture is really difficult to appreciate.

Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.

I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.