Black Quotes

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.

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 ...