Black Quotes

What really, really inspires me is that you don't see many black superheroes on television.

It's important for a young black kid to see a Mexican hero, just to know that we're all equal.

When the black and mortal blood of man has fallen to the ground ... who then can sing spells to call it back again?

De La Soul, from the soul, black medallions, no gold.

I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET. Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.

I know what's good for me. I can't play black or gray. I can't be a villain or anything close to one. I have to play white

Once a man has seen society's black underbelly, he can never turn his back on it. Never pretend, like you do, that it doesn't exist.

Nothing's black or white in our country - you're either brilliant or you're hopeless

Because I'm CGI, [John Swartz] gave me a role of an Imperial pilot in one scene, so I had a day where I was on camera dressed as a black suit and a little cap that they wear.

Some days I feel like a piano: kind of short, always in black & white, always expected to produce music.

[Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.

In London, it's hard for me to wear anything more colorful than black. When I'm in Rome, I dress up in white. When I'm in Paris, I became a Parisian. Striped T-shirt, Chanel. It's funny!

When Shonda Rhimes writes her autobiography, it should be called How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman.

I have been skiing since I was in school, but I'm not great. I am never going to break an Olympic record, I just want to go down the hills, on red or blue runs, but not... black.

I heard a white writer say, 'Oh, I'd never put black people in my writing, I'm afraid I would offend someone by doing it wrong.' I can't bear that!

I don't think a white person can write accurately and convincingly about what black people experience of oppression.

... I am dark but fair, / Black but fair.

One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk.

The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her; she had noted in her journal: "booze affects material as it does people.

Gangsta rap was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. Gangsta rap didnt exist.

Ah, Christ, I love you rings to the wild sky And I must think a little of the past: When I was ten I told a stinking lie That got a black boy whipped.

I think everybody has the ability to fall in love with a man or with a woman or a white person or a black person or a Jewish person or a Protestant person or whatever.

Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.

Mr. Cain would structurally change the voting demographic. There would be more black economic conservatives, and the Democrats would lose their stranglehold on the black vote.

Being the person I am, you know, the size I am, being a woman, being a black woman, there's not a lot of roles for us.

PICKANINNY, n. The young of the "Procyanthropos", or "Americanus dominans". It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.

You know what they say: 'Once you go black, your parents don't talk to you anymore.

I personally feel like black people in America have contributed so much for so long, and haven't always gotten credit for it.

I think ['March'] is not just for the Black Lives Matter movement. It's for everyone. We all have to understand what happened then, so we can understand what's happening now.

They’ll be black because that’s the way they’re seen. Barack Obama, Tiger Woods, Halle Berry, have all known that. Will that change? Don’t hold your breath.

Failing to open the center at the right moment - a common error by White in the Exchange Lopez - can allow Black an excellent game.

The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting.

I listen to my iPod as I walk on. If I'm winning I'll listen to the same song, that's like a good luck thing - usually The Black Eyed Peas' Let's Get It Started.

Where as you go into playing something like Ulysses [on Black Panther], you go - I'm going to have this haircut and this cloth, you draw from different stimulus.

I think that the response to the OJ Simpson trial was based on a kind of sensibility that emerged out of the many campaigns to defend black communities against police violence.

A 1990 study by the (liberal) Progressive Policy Institute showed that, after controlling for single motherhood, the difference in black and white crime rates disappeared.

Yes, of course, black Americans are a special group, and I'm disappointed that they're not Republicans, given our traditions. We're not getting much love in return, despite our efforts.

I love... anything in black and white. Just put it on the TV, I'll watch.

My husband sings Baa Baa black sheep and we pretend that all's certain and good, that the marriage won't end.

I feel like decades ago it was either youre black, white, Asian or Hispanic, or whatever, but today we see more of an acceptance for people with multi-nationalities.

So long as there's been black churches in the United States, there's been a relationship between spiritual well-being and material acquisition. This has always been the case.

There are a lot of limitations and stigmas that are placed on young actors, specifically young black actors.

Upon the present occasion London was full of clergymen. The specially clerical clubs, the Oxford and Cambridge, the Old University, and the Athenaeum, were black with them.

Yet civil rights issues are very much on the front burner in South Carolina between the Black Lives Matter movement and police shootings.

It needs to said that Gerard Brennan's The Point is terrific. Scorchingly funny, black humour at its finest and the most inventive car theft ever!

If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o’-the-wisps of the imagination.

If you are a black woman, you get two history months in a row.

I wish I could be the black woman Soderbergh, and put the camera on my shoulder and shoot beautifully while I directed.

There's a stereotype that to be a strong black woman is to be strong about being black.

My book has a pre - civil rights setting with a post - civil rights sensibility. I believe less and less that there is something called "The Black Experience," though undoubtedly there was one once.