Black Quotes

She has her gown nicely in place tonight, doesn't she? Black velvet and sparkles, not a thread left hanging. Clever girl, this city. Even the sky is her friend.

Why is it that if you happen to be black and over six feet tall, everybody thinks you supposed to play basketball or football?

- I notice you didn't laugh, Mr. Black! - No, Your Majesty. We are forbidden to laugh at the things kings say, sire, because otherwise we would be at it all day.

This impeccably researched study of the classic black insult game may be the funniest work of serious scholarship ever published.

The parastatals are an important driver of the process of Black Economic Empowerment and they have been doing it, and will continue to do it.

I never go black tie. I never grew up wearing ties or bow ties or anything.

In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America.

Day is a snow-white Dove of heaven That from the East glad message brings. Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, Wrapped to the eyes in his black wings.

Never yet could I find that a black had uttered a thought above the level of plain narration; never saw even an elemental trait of painting or sculpture.

I think my first song ever was when my cat died. It was this awful, dreadful black cat who was angry and hated everything. Yet I was so upset when it died.

I don't see myself a Great Black Hope. I'm just a golfer who happens to be black and Asian. It doesn't matter whether they're white, black, brown or green.

I don't just want to be the best black player or the best Asian player. I want to be the best golfer ever.

I understand the all black or all white look (to be perfectly blunt, it's easy and you don't have to think about it very much) but would any of us really want to be one of those people?

Why would you create a movie for black people if you don't understand the history and perspective of the people you are doing it for? You need historical perspective to make sound decisions.

I don't have a problem with being black in a white country or being with my people.

I've never bothered about my color.

When you look at the Lady Gagas of the world, or the Jay-Zs, or the Black Eyed Peas, these are people who have one album release and it's a worldwide one.

The rain drags Black Sun down, but the rain dried by White Moon.

I learned more from Black Star and Black Thought Than I ever did from any class of any sort.

Anti-Catholicism is the last respectable prejudice. You can't hate black people anymore, of course, and you can't hate homosexuals anymore, but you can hate all the Catholics you want.

And I've always been very close to my friends and allies in the black community, the Latino community and organized labor.

An era similar to the one in which the black rotary phone dominated its product category may not recur anytime soon.

The first thunderstorm of the season was in the dressing room, donning its black robes and its necklace of hailstones, strapping on its electrical sword.

A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.

I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black woman, and I had black kids. I always considered myself a 'brother.'

I don't feel that America has a black dude right now. I'm that dude.

When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do.

A little black girl yearns for the blue eyes of a little white girl, and the horror at the heart of her yearning is exceeded only by the evil of fulfillment

My father saw two black men lynched on his street in Cartersville, as a child. And I think seeing two black businessmen - not vagrants - hanging from trees as a child was traumatic for him.

I wanted to separate color from race. Distinguishing color - light, black, in-between - as the marker for race is really an error.

Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness and your black presence.

[Black-ish creator] Kenya Bariss wrote on Girlfriends. We've been friendly since then. He sent me [the pilot] and said, "I wrote it for you." But I know what that means in this industry.

Black-ish is really a show about an American family and these are some of the topics that come up - for all of us, in different ways - and we get to see how this family is walking through it.

Everything I talk about in stand-up is my experiences as an American, as a father, as a husband, as a black man, as a human being.

I don't want to have people brought in simply because they are black or Asian.

I get offered a lot of black roles, because apparently I dont look Latino enough.

Bill Clinton is a liar, a perverted kind of a guy anyway, and he is always stroking black folks rather than telling them the truth.

If you're a black man, they really call you out and have you deal with them.

It's no longer a fad to be down for the young Black male. Everybody wants to go past. Like the gangster stuff, it just got exploited.

Do you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts." He nodded. "But a useful one," he said.

When I reflect on the issues that black Hollywood has had with the lack of representation at the Oscars, I realized that we have a responsibility to tell stories that are meaningful for our history.

We want to make sure people know deeply about the trans community and deeply about Black Lives Matter so that people can act in solidarity.

Black politics is redemption and transformation. It's not always pretty, but it's not always ugly either. I'll put India.Arie up against Donald Trump any day and let the people choose.

Donald Trump's going to start a war, he's going to start attacking immigrants or Muslims or Black Lives Matter or whatever. Because he's going to have to distract them from the no jobs.

I like Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Common. But I like the underground stuff like Young Jeezy, Black Rob and Shine. I also love heavy metal like Slipknot and Pantera, It's very intense stuff.

...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears.

Black coffee is the latest fad I have picked up. Then there are my endless cups of chai! I'm trying to cut down and keep it to no more than three cups a day.

You absolutely feel, as a black actress, that you've got to ride the wave because there's just so few roles. I hate to play that card, but it's the truth. There's not a lot of roles.

That's the nature of my [stand-up] act: black man with a white baby.

The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?