Black Quotes

An active mind didn't need distractions in its physical environment. It needed a collection of outstanding books and a good lamp. Maybe some cheese and crackers.

Books bring alluring colors to our mundane black and white world.

It was any outcast's nightmare.If I looked carefully, I suspected I might find it beneath the black paint of the small acrylic by the window.

Your skill, strength, and overall survival are offensive to some people. Those are definitely not your people.

Division and separation means no harm to the society. It makes everyone unique.

The validation of your dreams is not in the colour of your skin but in the quality of your heart.

It is better to die fighting than to die on your knees.

To celebrate freedom and democracy while forgetting American's origins in a slavery economy is patriotism à la carte.

What good's a black face if it means I'm just someone else's property? Why give me these arms and legs just to carry someone else's load, not my own?

If you have lived your life in such a way that no one has ever found you obnoxious then you have my condolences for you have never really lived.

Are you scared? I understand. The first time I saw my reflection in the mirror, even I was frightened by how BIG my reflection was.

When it comes to things such as sugar and rice, most people believe that brown is superior to white. But when it comes to human beings, they believe that the opposite is true.

It is amazing what a woman can do if only she ignores what men tell her she can't.

It’s important that young people know about the struggles we faced to get to the point we are today. Only then will they appreciate the hard-won freedom of blacks in this country.

Black women were armed, black women were dangerous and the less money they had the deadlier the weapon they chose.

Confidence is always the best accessory. Own the moment. Own your space.

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death - Walt Whitman

She was Black before it was fashionable to be Black.

We ache with the yearningthat turns half into wholeand offer no excusesfor the beauty of our souls.

Wings can only flyas long as the bird flies Soul blackens when you put on vestment of lies White candle wax criesfor ignitable wickJealous people burnto make your heart feel sick

I've been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was black.

A very long time ago, some 2.5 million years B.C., the mother of human species as we know it, our ultimate ancestor, appeared in East Africa... She was four feet tall and probably black..

The war that killed my grandfather and great-uncles and thousands of other blacks is only a footnote in our history books.

I'm hurting because the color of my skin makes me perfect for their target practice.

every time this happensI see my fathermy brothermy would be sonI see myselfstop killing us

Guns don't kill people. People kill people.''But guns make it so much easier. Shall we go?

At the MoorWanderer in the black wind

Start a rumor aboutpeace taking over, love being the new black, and compassion going viral.

One day blacks and whites will come together like the keys of a piano, and be as beautiful as the it makes

THE WISER I GET....THE LESS I SPEAK, THE MORE I THINK AND THE MORE THOUGHTFUL MY WORDS BECOME"~QWANA M. "BABYGIRL" REYNOLDS-FRASIER

NEVER LIVE A LIE BECAUSE"THEY"WON'T ACCEPT YOUR TRUTH!

HOLDING ONTO HOPE MAY MAKE YOU TIRED BUT IF YOU LET GO OF HOPE, THE FALL CAN SPIRITUALLY KILL YOU! HOLD ON

WHEN PEOPLE SHOW YOU THEIR TRUE COLORS, DON'T GO COLOR BLIND

NEVER BE SO BUSY BEING THE LIGHT FOR OTHERS THAT YOU NEGLECT TO SHINE ON YOURSELF

I am living in world full of lost hope and discrimination. I am living a life in which social equality does not exist and I am not sure that it ever can, or if once upon a time it ever did.

My skin is beautiful but it also serves as a huge barrier for so many opportunities that I want to pursue in life.

It’s unfortunate really—how everyone can live on the same soil yet not even know the first thing about their neighbors.

Differences simply act as a yarn of curiosity unraveling until we get to the other side.

In many ways, the title American is an oxymoron because one may look it on the outside but not feel it on the inside.

PEOPLE WITH THE SMARTEST MOUTHSHAVE THE DUMBEST BRAINS

MOST DAYS MY LIFE CAN BE SUMMED UP IN MOVIE QUOTESANDHIP HOP AND R&B LYRICS

The gentle pulsing and flickering of stars and nebulae made a kind of music, a sweet easy mesh of whispered tones and sighing harmonies that held him in its force like the earth [holding] the moon.

Then your heart is a black, shriveled thing, because you absolutely betray me.

Truth will never shine from a heart filled with corruption and lies.

I swear the man could seduce the holy mother!

Sirius was a brave, clever, and energetic man, and such men are not usually content to sit at home in hiding while they believe others to be in danger.

There's no such thing as a limit on being the best. You can always go for more. That's what it means to be human. No... That's what it means to be me. - Claire Stanfield

Long has black powder been in the hands of dwarves alone. Alas, winds ever change and nothing remains the same forever.Lord Arrlo Salkeld

If you begin to rely upon yourself and become arrogant in your skill, that is the day you will fall.

I guess it’s true