Black Quotes

As Believers, we shine brightest in a sad and dark world; like a diamond that illuminates best when placed on black velvet.

If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and the Rolling Stones because they're always on the radio.

We were arguing about what was good to deal with making education fairer, diverse and more American. We were not arguing about where black scientists get a good education.

It's barely OK for me to be dressed up as a black guy. But part of me kind of enjoys provoking people.

I forgot he [Barack Obama] was black tonight for an hour.

I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.

If you see a black woman with an overweight white man, you know she got effed up credit!

When you're white, the sky's the limit. When you're black, the limit's the sky.

White man makes guns? No problem. Black rapper says "gun"? Congressional hearing.

See, the Black man gotta fly to get to something the white man can walk to.

Black comics, they only watch Black comedians. You're a comedian; you're not just a Black comedian. You're a comedian. I try to get that through to everybody.

A black President? Now come on y'all, we got Clinton, that's close. He got negro tendencies.

I always have two pairs of glasses: geeky black Warby Parker frames and Wayfarer Ray Bans. Those are key!

Black wines have become the rage over the last 20 years. I prefer our wines to be red.

Our society doesn't want to help girls like that [in Black Snake Moan]. They just want to use them.

If an audience doesn't get that [Black Snake Moan] is a movie about overcoming exploitation, it could come across as incredibly misogynistic. That would be the worst thing in the world for me.

Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining.

Everybody in the '80s, well, we hate rap. Now, the biggest rapper in the world... Eminem. Rap's a black thing.

Excuse us for the news, You might not be amused; But did you know White comes from Black? No need to be confused.

I know I am judged unfairly by my physical characteristics and ostracized because of that so I say, "Yes, I'm a black man."

Black folks are judged by quantity, not quality. It's a decimal point or figure. How different is that from slavery? There's no moral code, it's just about successful business for America.

I don't like to see facts twisted, untruths fabricated to give the [Supreme Court] nominee a black eye, even before he comes before Senate committee.

In light this bright, after so long in the dark, everything we can see is only black and white. Only glaring shape-outlines we have to blink against.

Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the same. Individually, we are nothing.

People expect black women to be angry, irrationally so, without reason. They think we are animals and we go around like the Wild Things.

The subset of our population that has not benefited from the advancement of medication is black and brown people.

His pear-shaped head, I could now see, was situated on top of a pear-shaped body, which his black gown caused to resemble a piece of fruit going to a funeral.

I think Americans such as Leviathan have done a lot to expand the sonic palette of black metal.

The term "black metal" has become a lot looser, or can include a larger range of sounds and extra-musical aesthetics, not just Satan and power chords.

If you are black, if you are Puerto Rican or Hispanic, be proud of that. But don't let it become a problem. Let it become somebody else's problem.

For the first time ever, a black Republican woman has been elected to Congress. President Obama told her, 'You are all set. This country never turns against a black anything.'

This Thursday, Barack Obama is gonna give his acceptance speech, and reportedly it's going to include performances by Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen. Yeah. And they say Obama's not black enough!

Personally, especially as a young black woman, I didn't think that Los Angeles was a place for me to start. There's a certain type that they go for or don't.

I always wear my black watch on my left wrist so I know I'm on stage on time.

The night sky lies so sprent with stars that there is scarcely space of black at all and they fall all night in bitter arcs and it is so that their numbers are no less.

The wonderful thing about the black church for me is that it forces you to come to terms with the centrality of love in the world.

I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered.

There ought to be a robust, uninhibited conversation in black America with different black ideological perspectives.

When black America is on the move, America is on the move.

Jesus loves a free black man.

Our problem is that we don't have enough people in America, including black people, who are progressive and willing to sacrifice their popularity in order to tell the truth.

Does he have a double standard for black critics as opposed to white critics?

Music is the very cement that has not just held the black community together but holds black selves together in a fundamental sense.

The black church often has reinforced certain self images that are damaging to black peoples' beauty, black peoples' confidence.

Quite suddenly Meggie felt fear rise in her like black brackish water, she felt lost, terribly lost, she felt it in every part of her. She didn't belong here! What had she done?

Quaint, outlandish heathen gods Black men fashion out of rods

I think I'm just someone that just tries to get by. I'm kind of - if it was during the Second World War, I'd be a black marketeer, I think.

World War Z is out today. The big zombie movie. The trailer looks scary. You see hordes of bodies climbing and rolling over each other. It's like Black Friday at the mall.

I believe that when it comes to major foreign policy issues, many prefer to have black people seen and not heard.

I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.