Black Quotes

Shirley Chisholm is another one [political hero]. She was a dynamic speaker, and the first black woman to run for President.

The nomination of John McCain is another milestone. So whether black, women, or bald, yes we can.

Donald Trump has not held an event in the black community. He has not gone to a black church, as Hillary Clinton has done.

I'm more eclectic.Maybe I'm minimalist in the respect that I love black...black for the winter, white for the summer, you know? But I love artisanal things.

I got to keep it tight like seams, Cause ain't no fiends Comin' in between me and my dreams, See what I mean, black?

There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses.

Stotting is jumping upward with all four legs simultaneously. My advice: do not die until you've seen a large black poodle stotting in the snow.

Certain black leaders would believe that you have to go through their prism: 'If I lay my hand on you, you're OK.' So many people have made a living off of the pimping of race.

Many voted in 2008 with the desire to see racism and racists humiliated by having a qualified black man elected president.

If I were a bad black comic I would name my special, Yo mama, and other stories of a lack of self awareness.

Cities with a black middle class provide the narrow minded an opportunity to realize that cultural differences are largely economic.

Dating a white girl is like dating a black girl if she were really passive-agressive.

Big black guys fear air travel almost as much as old white women fear big black guys.

Nobody understood what it was like to be black and Jewish... being different from everyone else just made me a lot stronger.

I drive two black cars, I named em Malcolm X and Martin Luther.

It never occurred to me that I was hired because I was black. But it did occur to me that because I was black it would give a different historic element to the film.

One thing that's coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing.

...just because I don't have on a silly black costume and carry a silly broom and wear a silly black hat, doesn't mean that I'm not a witch. I'm a witch all the time and not just on Halloween.

Belfastas uncivilised as ever--savage black mothers in houses of dark red brick, friendly manufacturers too drunk to entertain you when you arrive. It amuses me till I get tired.

I have long been disposed to judge men by their average. If it is reasonably high, I am charitable with faults that look pretty black.

Certainly there is a depression I think a lot of Black folks are getting ready to have come January [2017] and that might be an interesting story to tell.

Adolescents tend to be passionate people, and passion is no less real because it is directed toward a hot-rod, a commercialized popular singer, or the leader of a black-jacketed gang.

A convincing demonstration of correctness being impossible as long as the mechanism is regarded as a black box, our only hope lies in not regarding the mechanism as a black box.

There was a young lady named Mae Who smoked without stopping all day; As pack followed pack, Her lungs first turned black, And eventually rotted away.

Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide.

A life is black, whiten it as you will.

You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.

Even so We find the sea of sorrow. Black as night The sullen surface meets our frightened gaze, As down we sink to darkness and despair.

Holly Black is the Real Thing: a gifted writer with a solid grounding in what matters. Her stories are dark and splendid blooms rising from roots sunk deep in myth and tradition.

Black is a girl's best friend.

Just because he has black fingernails doesn't mean he's a monster-that's how you've defended yourself for years.

I had a little Richard and that black piano, oh that sweet Georgia Peach, and the boy form Tupelo.

The world is not that black and white, Rachel. There are no moral absolutes. It is complex.

[Donald] Trump has quietly rolled out an immigration plan with specifics and everyone wants specifics. He's got immigration with specifics, a black and Hispanic outreach plan with specifics.

My favorite video game of all time is called 'Black Tiger'. It's a Capcom Dungeons and Dragons game from 1987. I have the actual arcade version sitting in my office.

For one quarter, Black Tiger lets me escape from my rotten existence for three glorious hours. Pretty good deal.

There is only one direction. (Down.) There is only one color. (Black.) And there is only one number (Zero.)

What was happening was the war on drugs. That was the primary culprit I could see that was getting in the way of black progress.

I think one of the great things that I have seen happen since the rise of the movement for black lives is the growth of more training and leadership spaces.

Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was in perpetual mourning for their lives.

The world is a shoulder of dark meat (black flesh of an old mule). And the light is on the other side.

I love black truffles. I love white truffles.

I was out training one black night when I heard a noise. I turned around and saw a leopard. I threw some stones at him and he went away, so I went on my way.

Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black legs and drove you mad, wicked mad.

White lies are ushers to black ones.

Rich kids work hard. Most black kids aren't working hard enough.

I don't mind doing the green-screen stuff at all, and in fact it's a lot like black-box theater, which I did plenty of in New York.

There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black writer's book that everybody is going to be Black.

We don't consider black, urban films as 'indies,' though many of them are shot for under $10 million which is kind of the definition of an indie.

For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.