Black Quotes

Nighttime is different. Things are otherwise when the world is black. Insecurities and hurts, anxieties and fears grow teeth at night. p493

There's no black and no white, just shades of grey...But the small betrayals lead to bigger ones, morality is eroded.

I just look better in simple black things.

As I've gotten older, I've realized that things are a lot more permeable. It's not so black and white: not every journalist is a jerk.

Although black and white Americans live, work, and learn together now, there is still injustice in America.

Far away if first black, But it shall be back Over field Over flower In the twilight hour. We are home in our tree. We are owls, we are free. As we go, this we know Glaux is nigh.

Cause everbody care. Black, white, deep down we all do.

Lord, I never seen blue hair on a black woman before or since. Leroy say you look like a cracker from outer space.

Having a separate bathroom for the black domestic was just the way things were done. It had faded out in new homes by the time the '70s and '80s rolled up.

I'd like to get something small and self-generated in before Black Rock has whatever life that it has.

I apologize for the fact that the word ‘anti-Mexican’ is being said to a black guy in America.

For me, as a child, I certainly thought that there were more black people in the world than white people.

There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're black.

There is nothing more dangerous on planet Earth than a black wife.

My peers at the time: you know, young black kids from off the streets of Harlem, having these conversations with me in my small, dirty little studio up in Harlem.

Do some good to the ghetto, Mr. Kris Kringle. Come and stay awhile, kick it with God's Angels. Take and acknowledge my wisdom and understand That Santa Claus is a black man.

Every woman's wardrobe should include black.

We've become a culture where earning money doesn't entitle you to it, but wanting it does. That is the essence of redistribution.

The greater the penalties laid on sellers in the black market... the higher the black market price.

It's not very long ago that we were all singing country music. And country music is equally black as it is white and that's important to recognize.

Black crime rates fell more steeply than white crime rates, and now black incarceration is falling more steeply than white incarceration.

It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because there is nothing to defend.

Sometimes I wonder if I got lulled into not wanting things because I grew up black in this country.

Just looking at me, I am a Black man. Born and bred, through and through. But I am also a lot of things. I am a father. I am a husband. I am a Christian. I am a comic book geek and I'm a creator.

I'm a black writer from Mississippi. That's what I most consider myself.

I'm accountable - this sounds emo - to black American writing, Southern writing, Southern black American writing, American writing and my people. That's kind of what keeps me accountable.

You'll always see me at a political rally and the black strip club; I'm gonna represent smoking weed and supporting Trayvon Martin on my record, because I'm a whole man.

I ought to file charges of uncommon stupidity against you for letting her try this alone." ~ Newt, Black Magic Sanction, Kim Harrison

There is black. There is white. Gray is a cowardly excuse to mix our wants with our needs.

Tears could not be equal, if I wept diamonds from the skies. Jenks (Black Magic Sanction)

I wear a lot of black, but not in the goth way, I just really love black. I'll never be in pink or purples.

As a young, Black man, I absolutely feel responsible.

I warn black Americans'don't get too mixed. A little is fine, but not to the point where you're out of the family.

Even though I couldn't speak English, there were many times that my black-American parents could read my mind and I could read theirs.

I'm not at all against white people adopting black children, because we're all human beings who need to give love and be nurtured in safety, but I do think it's better to be adopted by blacks.

Nina knew the power of black and white images. Sometimes a thing was its truest self when the colors were stripped away.

There are a good number of people creating black metal and black metal inspired music in the northwest. Much of this music is radically noncommercial and exists only on a very local, private level.

The slaves were simply turned loose without any property. They were easily recognizable. They were black. They were suddenly free to go exploring.

We've [with Jack Black] probably never been in an interview where someone hasn't asked how we got together, so we thought if we put it in the movie, it'll answer the question altogether.

Nothing will ever top 'The Wire.' It was historical. It was black cinema.

You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.

Geese are white, crows are black. No argument will change this.

Know the white, But keep the black, Be an example to the world! Being an example to the world, Ever true and unwavering, Return to the infinite.

Consider the true picture. Think of myriads of tiny bubbles, very sparsely scattered, rising through a vast black sea. We rule some of the bubbles. Of the waters we know nothing.

Scared ya, did I? Aw, that's sweet. Don't worry the shocks won't kill me," she whispered. "They only make me stronger. Anyway, it was worth it to give that cow a black eye, ya know?

He addressed a black lawyer as "boy". That's why Jeff Sessions couldn't get through Senate confirmation process under the old rules followed by Democrats and Republicans.

Man, meeting Michael Jordan for me was like.. black Jesus walking towards me. It was overwhelming to me to finally meet the guy I've looked up to my whole life.

Being the first person to go to college that really related to me from the movie [The Butler] because being black and going to college everyone puts so much hope into you.

There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal.

I've managed to create intimacy with people I know, and people that I don't know. The longer things stay inside of us, the more we think they are black or tainted, but they're really not.