Black Quotes

That's not to say that some of the new media is not advantageous. You can reach lots of folks with what Black Lives Matter is doing, mobilizing people. God bless them.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

Americans aren't accepting of black humor, it's terrible.

Start [the movie] in color. Color is always attributed as fun, and black and white is very sad.

Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don't find one, it's you.

Because there were all kinds of hell - some were black and dirty, and some were silvery and high.

When is black America going to forgive white America for slavery?

For Americans, the quickest way to understand modern Britain is to look at what LBJ's Great Society did to the black family and imagine it applied to the general population.

How ridiculous! You're going to have the first black president apologize for slavery?

I've played lots of villains in my time and I think the reason they've been so successful is that they're not two-dimensional. They're not black and white. That's the gig.

The last time I saw her was red. The sky was like soup, boiling and stirring. In some places, it was burned. There were black crumbs, and pepper, streaked across the redness.

We have a black President in the United States. I think the world has matured. It's no longer about colour, but the person in the skin.

Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you're a good man, you're a wonder!

God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men.He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.

I love to snuggle up on the sofa wrapped in my duvet watching old black and white films, and catching up with friends and family on the phone.

Avarice, with all its black attendants, is confessedly a crime of old age, and seldom arrives at maturity till accompanied with gray hairs.

Interpreting the dance: young women in white dancing in a ring can only be virgins; old women in black dancing in a ring can only be witches; but middle-aged women in colors, square dancing...?

I think Nouveau Gloaming is a classic black metal record and I would hate to be a band that kept trying to recapture the same essence, but failing, for the rest of its days.

I'm a history geek and I love American history. It's so bizarre and so problematic and I love the many conundrums that it represents. You can go down so many black holes.

I think the fun thing about this franchise [Planet of Apes], as storytellers, is that a lot of the franchises are very black and white. This is all about the gray areas; it's really about the nature.

How can you be more subject; black woman in a white man's world?

It is imperative that young white men and women study the black American history. It is imperative that blacks and whites study the Asian American history.

Always in the black spirituals there's that promise that things are going to be better, by and by.

I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people.

I like bold colors but usually wear black.

I lay there in my black slip dress and wondered if I ought to have worn pants. I mean, who knew what I was going to find up there? What if I had to do some climbing? People might see my underwear.

I tend to play characters that arent supposed to black or written black.

Many Americans don't mourn in public anymore - we don't wear black, we don't beat our chests and wail.

Forest who is in love with fire will wear black wedding gown in her wedding!

The line between the white-science and the black-science is very narrow. You can open roads or you can kill people by the same dynamite!

Black is the color of night. White is the true color of death

Having a white parent undoubtedly makes for a different childhood experience than having two black parents.

But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?

It was a sphincter at the top of a black bowl. A fitting commentary on the FAYZ, Diana thought. A giant sphincter.

In many ways for black actors there's been two leading guys: It's Will Smith vs. Denzel [Washington].

There are loads of black actors.You can't say: I'm going to vote for him, he's not very good but he's black, [so] I'll vote for him. You've got to give a good performance.

Every pastor I talk to says, and particularly if they're African American they'll say, "I'm not black enough for African Americans. I'm not white enough for the whites. I'm not Hispanic enough."

I see this in the way that sermons are preached. How would you give a Black Nationalist speech or campaign for the Republicans when you're an integrated congregation? It doesn't happen.

I think that the over-incarceration of black and brown folk is one of the great crimes of American society.

I don't think that an emphasis on the peculiar plight of black males at all suggests that others are not suffering, or that such attention suggests that black men and women feel sorry for themselves.

White-on-white crime is a devastation in America like so-called black-on-black crime. It's not black or white-on-white crime. It's proximity murder.

There are people in the world who won't watch a movie that's in black and white. There's got to be a special place in hell for them.

I voted for the black guy, and what we got was the white guy

What if I were Romeo in black jeans?

Personally, I'm very classic. If I'm going to wear a suit, it's going to be classic, black, and fit very well. There's nothing like it.

It is clear to me that the racism was on the other foot, that really, society in Europe was much more racist - vis-à-vis Arabs at least and black Africans - than American society.

Expensive, well-executed, and familiar ads convince the investors, as nothing in the black and white tables of assets and debits can, that the company is important and prosperous.

I think the two issues, racism and chauvinism, are linked. Look at how much weaker was support for U.S. actions in Iraq among black people.

Incarceration rates - especially black incarceration rates - have soared regardless of whether crime has been going up or down in any given community or the nation as a whole.

Nationwide, 1 in 3 black men can expect to serve time behind bars, but the rates are far higher in segregated and impoverished black communities.