Black Quotes

I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.

Along the avenue of cypresses, All in their scarlet cloaks and surplices Of linen, go the chanting choristers, The priests in gold and black, the villagers. . . .

That Loor's a handful, she is." - Spader (Black Water)

Something struck me in Africa, in black Africa, where polygamy is legal: the solitary woman is the rule there, from at an extremely young age, and the children are always the mother's responsibility.

I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.

Add it all up, and some prominent Obama supporters are now saying that it paints a picture of an opposition driven, in part, by a refusal to accept a black President.

I'm not racist, I've got a black president.

Relationships are not straight forward. They're not black and white. Sometimes things don't always going in a straight line, and that's okay. Love can be very confusing.

Miracles can happen, even to those who are small, flammable, and dressed all in black.

The exceptionalism of a black U.S. President is not important to me. It's what he does - and who he has at the table.

I didn't elect [Barack] Obama because he's a black; I voted for Obama because he was the right person at the time.

The rise of fascism in Europe sent most Americans home. Some black American communists who had emigrated to the Soviet Union perished in Stalin's purges of the late 1930s.

Black Stache had no love for the Queen, no love for women of any sort, except for his ma. He had a real soft spot for his ma, and was truly sorry for the time he’d marooned her.

If Black Stache laughed, you laughed. If he snarled, you snarled. If he breathed in your direction, you ran for cover.

People in every direction No words exchanged No time to exchange And all the little ants are marching Red and black antennas waving They all do it the same We all do it the same way

Barry Bonds is outspoken. I think that the people of Pittsburgh felt, it's a syndrome of you've got to apologize for being successful if you're successful (as well as) black and outspoken.

I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman.

I probably also wanted to be black at that particular time [ 9 years old] as well.

There seem to be a lot of black artists making very good videos that I'm surprised aren't being used on MTV.

Today, we've got what seems to me to be binary-choice politics: black and white, ones and zeros, either you are with me or against me. How did we get here?

Death comes black and hard, rushing down on me from the future, with no possible chance of escape.

You're not really drinking coffee unless you drink it black, don't you think? Oh, no? You like to monkey with it?

I've worn black today, because I've heard so often that it's supposed to be slimming. But instead I am this sphere of darkness submarining through the halls.

I think there's new optimism in Brazil. The Olympics went well. Our demand is good. Costs are down. We're back in the black. We're feeling really good about what's going on in Brazil.

I have been in films before where people have been in a rush to label them as a Black film or even as a history lesson. These are ways to make the film feel niche and not for everyone.

Don't send me your script if you want me to play the black best friend; I just won't do that.

Because I was aspirational, I did my work, I was respectful to my teachers, I experienced a lot of bullying from the black kids. My friends were largely white or Asian.

I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from which we are living the legacy and which just don't get made.

I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person.

When I was really young, I was really into Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden and those kinds of bands.

The black line is carbon emissions to date. The red line is the status quo - a projection of where emissions will go if no new substantial policy is passed to restrain greenhouse gas emissions.

Everyone said that the NBA could not possibly make it because it had too many black players.

Tommy told Sal about the strange white-cloth figure with black stitches that he had found on the front porch. "Sounds like Pillsbury Doughboy gone punk," Sal said.

A silent dark...as black as a moonless lake, as a ravine's wings, darkness there and nothing more, merely this and nothing more.

There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors.

I fell asleep during 'Year One' twice. And my son, who never falls asleep during a Jack Black movie, also nodded off. That's how bad it was. I was incredibly disappointed.

The Congressional Black Caucus is a moral fraud. It's amazing how many people are afraid of saying that

The election, and even the re-election, of a black man as president, in a country that is 87 percent non-black - a first in human history - has had no impact on what are called 'racial tensions.'

I used to want to be the black dude in 'The Last Dragon.' I wanted to be Ralph Tresvant from New Edition - I thought he was super cool.

One great thing about being a black man is that if you put on a hat, you can move around unnoticed.

You'll lie wi' me now," he said quietly. "And I shall use ye as I must. And if you'll have your revenge for it, then take it and welcome, for my soul is yours, in all the black corners of it.

My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.

The little black dress is the true friend...she travels with you...is patient and constant...you go to her when you don't know where else to go and she is ALWAYS reliable and timeless.

Barack H. Obama is a landmark presidential figure as the first black, multiracial, multicultural president from Hawaii and the Pacific.

There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I always gone seeking it at the liar's door?

Here's an interesting thing about L.A. - it's overrun with black widow spiders. I could find you one on the street in 10 minutes.

So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.

We're always trailing, as far as the amount of roles that are written for us and the films that are being made that have black characters in them. I don't know if that's going to change.

President [Barack] Obama has been an unbelievable divider of this country, whether it's rich and poor; white and black.

I would love to meet with the Black Caucus, it's great, the Congressional Black Caucus, I think it's great.