Black Quotes

...an excellent player, but he [Ian Wright] does have a black side.

During our first meeting, Tony Iommi was a great jazz guitarist, his capabilities cover all styles - Black Sabbath has even narrowed his horizons.

The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.

Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.

I still listen to black metal all the time - that's obviously one of my favorite kinds of music - but I steer from it very strongly.

I still think that there's some kind of psychological investment in black athletes carrying the flag for "us" at times. So, sports [remains a] metaphor for struggle and triumph and flair.

The smith and his penny both are black.

Barack Obama may be black, but John McCain is the first Albino presidential candidate: he's completely see-through!

I'd love to have Michael Jackson [in my show] because he's black and white. So he would appeal to a universal demographic.

Black moleskin gloves covered his hands; the right because it was burned, the left because a man felt half a fool wearing only one glove.

The white horse and the black one wheeled like lovers at a harvest dance, the riders throwing steel in place of kisses.

And all was black and still, and black and cold, and black and dead, and black.

I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent This night!

I've never understood people who say they're not a practicing Jew. You never hear a black guy say he's not a practicing African-American. What does it even mean?

They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words - 'free-love' - as if a lover ever had been, or ever could be, free.

Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black.

It's unfortunate that in an interview sometimes things can seem so black and white.

I'm trying to give people an idea of what black looks like and what white looks like before I introduce them to gray.

The X-Games - I watch that; I'm not impressed. That's white dudes' desperation. They're running out of sports. They gotta find something that black dudes won't touch.

I went to University of Illinois. Big school. 35,000 students. 800 black... I was the only black in every class. Hard to be absent.

Want to shut a racist white guy's mouth. Put him around Super human athletic black dudes.

We launched it in the London branch - phenomenal sausages, incredible eggs, homemade baked beans, black pudding - and it's something I wanted to bring to Dubai.

I look into my own black heart.

You can't get more racist than hating black conservatives just because they're black.

Security should not be a black and white thing.

I'm thinking about American votes and American - all Americans, black or white have to be concerned about what's happening in the world.

I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I'll black out the windows or something.

For horror to work, you have to be afraid. You have to keep the monster in a black and white light.

We used to say in the black community that if somebody else caught a cold, we caught pneumonia.

But it is never over; nothing ends until we want it to. Look, in shattered midnights, On black ice under silver trees, We are still dancing, dancing.

There comes a time in every man's life when he's consumed by the desire to spit on his palms, hoist the black flag and start cutting throats.

Orphan Black is the new black.

Most people I know of that mix have a real ability to be in a room with anyone, black or white.

We were talking about urban youth. And by urban I mean lives in a city not urban as in black like white people use it.

Sometimes even when the book is over I dont know whos good and whos bad. Its really more interesting, I think, to write about gray characters than it is to write about black and white.

I think that Hollywood is content with condescending to Black people, patronizing them, feeling sorry for us, and I think we're happy to take the pat on the head as a people and take whatever awards.

Beyond the window, some kind of small, black thing shot across the sky. A bird, possibly. Or it might have been someone's soul being blown to the far side of the world.

Black is a colour of power and strength.

According to his dad's journal, vampires had been through some of the worst epidemics in history. And apparently, during the days of the Black Plague, their biggest complaint had been rotten "food".

Life is the flash in black heavens.

I'm thinking about doing dusty colors - we definitely are doing as much color as we can. It seems that fashion is back on track with color - I hope. It's been very black for awhile.

There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.

The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline of labor which enslaves them for their own good.

You can get it in any color, as long as it is black

I mean, think of Flint. I mean, think of the lead poisoning of thousands of poor and black children across the United States.

Even the notion that, you know,[Bill] Clinton was the black president strikes me as the greatest irony of all times.

At the same time, you see in those studies, you see the emergence of various movements among black youth that are really challenging the ideology of neoliberalism since the 1980s.

In some cities such as Washington, DC, that 75 percent of young black men can expect to serve time in prison.

Young black men in America have an identity ascribed to them that is a direct legacy of slavery.

Young black men are considered dangerous, expendable, threatening and part of a culture of criminality.