Black Quotes

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 ...

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and whit...

One may picture, too, the sudden shifting of the attention, the swiftly spreading coils and bellying...

I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is...

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

...somewhere, on some subterranean level, her darkness and his may have connected.

Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.

One day when I went out to my wood-pile, or rather my pile of stumps, I observed two large ants, the...

Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class wit...

I wonder what it's like to be from a state that is spread across a few islands way out in the Pacifi...

I hate to say it but I hate black humor. I feel like a Klan member saying it, but it's just not funn...

Black and awkward is the worst, because black people are stereotyped as being anything but awkward i...

We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's wh...

The fact that we elected Obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the blues and so much ...

Whose starboard eyeSaw chariot 'swing low'?

It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in o...

People won't admit it, they're too busy grabbing to see that the lights have fused. They can't see t...

After our negotiations were completed, the dome would be imploded and launched toward the nearest bl...

I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still ...

We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, a...

When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That...

Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It w...

If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. ...

A black hole really is an object with very rich structure, just like Earth has a rich structure of m...

I like black because it is a vacant space.

If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.

I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the...

I don't differentiate between black and Latino actors. We're in the same struggle to be represented ...

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is ...

Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit ...

The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black R...

But let’s not forget the Jew. Anybody that gives even a just criticism of the Jew is instantly label...

I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concer...

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.