Black Quotes

I come in with this rock 'n' roll-oriented music, and it's not black enough . . . I've always had to deal with this black-white thing.

I'm just as white as I am black, and I'm just as Russian Jew as I am West Indian.

Any color is more distinctly seen when opposed to its contrary: thus, black on white, blear near yellow, green near red, and so on.

Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better.

Stop-and-frisk was ruled unconstitutional in New York, because it largely singled out black and Hispanic young men.

One favourite find of mine has to be a 1980s black dinner jacket that I wear as a dress.

Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G.

Finally, the complexities of black relationships are being portrayed in television and film.

As a black man, my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races and different colours.

Trace started on his way again, this time taking the lead. "She's five-four and weighs less than one-twenty. Matt can handle himself." "Says the man with the black eye.

Evidence tells that black and Latina woman are more accepting of curves, and that's a good thing.

The Million Man March, in one day, helped to defeat all of the evil propaganda spread about Black men throughout the world.

Every revolutionary thinker in America, White, Black, Brown or Red, never got the true representation from the corporate-controlled media.

How in the hell could God take the black earth and make himself a white man out of it?

A black man, but I feel so blue. So I smoke green and purple to my dreams come true. And my eyes turn red, the sky turns grey.

Black seems to make a colour cloudy, but darkness doesn't. A ruby could thus keep getting darker without ever becoming cloudy; but if it became blackish red, it would become cloudy.

I think if you are a black person or an Hispanic person, you are not as fond of Rudolph Giuliani as you are if you happen to be a white person. Because he has trampled on people's civil rights.

Put the strong, masculine figure in a school with tough kids and you have a certain control. It's very demeaning to the kids and very demeaning to the tough, black guy, but that's how they worked it.

My experience has to be funnelled through a black experience or a white experience, or it doesn't exist, because that's how we're going to deal with the world.

When the end comes, dark and hungry I'll be alone, love When the end comes, black and starving I'll say good-bye, love.-from Golden Tongue: The Poems of Steven Slaughter

In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers.

Misty of Chincoteague', 'The Black Stallion', the 'Saddle Club' books, I read 'em all. I was horse-crazy.

The use of soul-force for turning stones into bread would have been considered, as it is still considered, as black magic.

I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.

New York white youth were killing victims; that was a 'sociological' problem. But when black youth killed somebody, the power structure was looking to hang somebody.

If it's necessary to form a Black Nationalist army, we'll form a Black Nationalist army. It'll be ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death.

What Martin Luther King is doing is disarming the black people of America of their God-given right and of their natural right.

This is why integration will not work. It assumes that the two races, black and white, are equal and can be made to live as one. This is not true.

Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek.

When you want a nation, that's called nationalism... Black nationalism. A revolutionary is a Black nationalist. He wants a nation.

If you're black, you were born in jail, in the North as well as the South. Stop talking about the South. Long as you south of the Canadian border, you're south.

[ Negro leaders] never let the white man know exactly what black people are thinking.

In my recent travels into African countries and others, I was impressed by the importance of having a working unity among all peoples, black as well as white.

If the government can't get the black man justice, then it's time for the black man to get some justice for himself.

No sane black man really wants integration! No sane white man really wants integration!

The only way the two can have equal job opportunities is if black people have factories as, as well as white people have factories.

The Government is responsible for what is happening to black people in America.

Even after the child, the life of the black child was saved, but that same white man will have to toss him right back into the discriminate, into discrimination, segregation, and these other things.

The goal - is the dignity of the black man in America. He wants respect as the human being. He wants recognition as a human being.

It's easy. [Black man] is - he's separate already. The fact that you have Harlem, the fact that you have the Negro ghetto and the so-called Negro slum, he's already separate.

My film is very simple: An Eastern European story full of black humor about things everyone can feel and understand.

Malcolm X never renounced and never stepped away from a strong commitment to black nationalism and black self-determination. That's absolutely clear if you do any analysis of his speeches.

[Alex] Haley's objective was quite different. Haley was a republican. He was an integrationist. He was very opposed to black nationalism.

I'll give you an example. Henry, the old black guy who cooks the corn bread, he worked on the railroads for about 20 years so he knows how to lay and build track.

I actually prefer the silent black and white version of the Wizard Of Oz from the 20's.

In Europe I couldn't be anything but a black cook working for somebody. My inspiration was to own, to be the chef.

It's in Macbeth: "The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon." I seldom have occasion to pull it out, but it's ready and waiting!

I think white people like to tell Asian people how they should feel about race because they're too scared to tell black people.

... if a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar.

Don't count out Marian Wright Edelman, because there is talk that President Clinton may want to shock the nation by putting a real black on the Supreme Court.