Black Quotes

Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U...

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay,...

When I cook for my family on Christmas, I make feijoada, a South American dish of roasted and smoked...

The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same t...

How’s things, man?” The black man extended his hand for a handshake. Mathematical formulae were jott...

It was lunar symbolism that enabled man to relate and connect such heterogeneous things as: birth, b...

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

God is on my side, and that's all I need. I get up in the morning, I pray to God. I don't pray to th...

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spir...

but bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored is a metaphysicaldilemma/ i havent conquered yet/ do yo...

I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventio...

I come from a real working class background, and I didn't know anyone sophisticated - except I saw E...

The first thing I bought that was really stylish was in 1969 when I was eleven. I saved up for a bla...

The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in ...

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

Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all...

I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or...

Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.

I don't trust the everyday: it is a mask, a sham. It gives the illusion of permanence, of an unshatt...

After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean ...

The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the fi...

Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?

I'm American. Why didn't I say I was African American? Because I'm in a foreign country? But can I r...

I have certainly met much more discrimination in terms of being a woman than being black, in the fie...

If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other l...

When the prophet, a complacent fat man,Arrived at the mountain-topHe cried: "Woe to my knowledge!I i...

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my...

Looking up at that starry sky gave him the creeps: it was too big, too black. It was all too possibl...

the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.

They were close to the end of the beginning . . .

They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.

Once again there was the desert, and that only.

The trap had a ghastly perfection

The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go

There was murder, there was rape, there were unspeakable practices, and all of them were for the goo...

Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.

There's a hole in the world like a big black pit who are filled with people who are filled with shit...

I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos.

The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated...

Nobody loves the head of a dandelion. Maybe because they are so many, strong, and soon.

White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with mag...

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

I don’t want to be a free nigger; I want to be a free man.”“Don’t we all. Look. Be what you want--- ...

One day you’re going to get arrested, and when you do, don’t call me. I’ll tell the police to lock y...

It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.

My inspiration for writing music is like Don McLean did when he did "American Pie" or "Vincent". Lor...

I see black light (his last words)

But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its...

I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especi...

You don't have to be a certain thing to be cool. If you're white, you don't have to act black or wha...

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laught...

The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind m...

They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if i...

The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal...

From racial profiling and being pulled over just for 'driving while black' to this new phenomenon of...

Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certai...

For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and...

She got a long pointed nose and big fleshy mouth. Lips look like black plum. Eyes big, glossy. Fever...

First time I got the full sight of Shug Avery long black body with it black plum nipples, look like ...

Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of de...

The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig littl...

We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of B...

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what ...

It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or who you love. It doesn...

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active bla...

I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our h...

I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students...

As a black woman interested in feminist movement, I am often asked whether being black is more impor...

It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.

What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first ...

I find a lot of poetry very disappointing, but I do have poets that I go back to. One book of poetry...

I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's s...

I don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side.

Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of ...

The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.

Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: o...

You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.

It doesn't have to be dreads. You can wear an Afro, or braids like you used to. There's a lot you ca...

Is Obama Anything but Black?So lots of folk—mostly non-black—say Obama’s not black, he’s biracial, m...

Relaxing your hair is like being in prison. You're caged in. Your hair rules you. You didn't go runn...

Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?

Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four.

You can wear black at any time. You can wear it at any age. You may wear it for almost any occasion ...

I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally i...

Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too....

...The fact that it's black transforms it. Has the same effect on women that black stockings have on...

I've been a Robert Randolph fan forever, since 2001. I just thought he was so cool; you don't see a ...

Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that Afric...

I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, a...

An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never...

The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At ...

Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other p...

I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.

His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin.

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and o...

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

It is wrong to divide the nation white against black, native born against immigrant or one religion ...