Black Quotes

It's overshadowed, the art. We're in a really argumentative, black-and-white-thinking culture right now. There's not a lot of time to take things in.

I just feel in a lot of ways black people are so much looser and cooler. Just as a culture, it's so much more real.

I prefer black music in general.

When I was two years old, I heard about his [Dalai Lama] flight from Tibet. Being very little, I said, "Oh, good Tibetans, bad Chinese." Those were the black-and-white ways that I thought.

I have a no-die clause in every movie. The black people can't be dying all the time.

One aspect of my mum's personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black-and-white films.

"Legally Blonde 2" wasn't written specifically for a black woman.

"Southland" was not written for a black woman.

There was, like, this black hole where the world used to be, and we were both falling toward it. What could we hold on to?

In my judgment, the slogan "black power" and what has been associated with it has set the civil rights movement back considerably in the United States over the period of the last several months.

I have a pilot called The Re-Education of Oliver Cooper starring the white kid from Project X where follows a black girl to a black university, like in Legally Blonde. I have so many fun projects.

The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.

Black Friday is a media trap, an orchestrated mass hallucination based on herd dynamics and the media cycle.

We don't live in a world that's black and white.

I have this really morbid, awesome love for the movie Black Swan.

I was not allowed to be an individual. I was black and I was a woman - and I was a black woman.

Amongst black people, you have always heard it said that once a black man reaches a certain level, especially if you are an entertainer, you get a white trophy woman. I didn't make that up.

I want to be able to tell black people something they don't know, something about our own lives.

Is it possible that more black people hate the President than are actually alive?

Black people beating whites when a thug got shot holding a gun by a black officer haha (expletive) cracks me up! Keep kneeling for the anthem!

Poor is the new black. So on this film [The Land], there are poor black people, but there are also poor Latinos, and poor white people as well.

I got married to Chris Sarandon, who was a graduate student, and he knew everything at that point, I thought, because he was older. He introduced me to poetry and black-and-white movies.

Dating black women will ruin your life

I don't trust white critics' judgment about most things that deal with black life, particularly when a black person is the creator.

Wherever there's a prison, for the most part, especially where there's Black people, it's overcrowded. I don't know who really gets out.

It is a mistake trying to cheer up camels. You may as well drop meringues into a black hole.

Gold looks good on my skin, and gold looks good on black people, I think.

It doesn't matter if it's black-and-white. If a movie has a story that is filled with emotion, you can have as much pleasure, and it's very good for cinema.

I like seeing things that you don't normally see. Black people are so diverse, we do so many things, we have given so much to this world - and we are constantly giving.

There are some universal elements when it comes to motherhood - especially for Black moms. Black women are selfless. Many women think of their children before they think about themselves.

Black people don't even question things any more, they simply follow the lead.

Black women are the touchstone by which all that is human can be measured.

I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts.

When the charge first came up, I hated black women. Then, going to trial, I started seeing the black women that was helping me. It's mostly black female guards. They treat me with human respect.

If all we are for is black people and white people who like black people, then I have nothing to say to Trump who is only for white people and black people who like him.

I sort of feel like that's the most revolutionary thing we can do with our narrative for me as Black people is to show that we are just like you.

Do not be naive. AIDS is not a curse from God to Africans or the black people. It is a tool to control them designed by some evil-minded scientists, but we may not know who particularly did it.

I'm full of clichés - I was raised by a Southern black woman and they had a saying for everything.

It's not that George Bush doesn't care about black people, god made hurricanes, not people who can't swim.

You always see black people complaining about this and that, but you never see me complaining about how slow they work on my plantation.

I don't like the term 'black people', I find it demeaning to those of us that actually qualify as 'people'.

Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are guttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go.

You can't accuse the creator of The Boondocks, ... Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil and the government is lying about 9/11.

I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.

My film (Black Venus) had been very emotionally draining and difficult because I had identified so much with the lead character, Saartjie Baartman.

Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.

Reduce the supply of black labor by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much you increase the demand for and wages of white labor.

And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonnet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation.

I was about one drink away from my limit, In came a black dress with a black body in it, She looked so timid, it took me a minute To get her in focus

Women are so perverse. Look how they won't wear black when nothing suits them so well!