Black Quotes

Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then.

I don't understand labels. I don't need anybody to tell me I'm Latina or black or anything else. I've played characters that were written for Caucasian females, I just want to be given the same consideration as everybody else, and so far that has been happening.

Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.

We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.

The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador attain liberty, and inspired our forefathers to shed their blood for the United States' independence, cannot die. Today, this spirit of solidarity must and will empower all of us to rebuild Haiti.

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

Newman's second law: Just when things look darkest, they go black.

I was told by the general manager that a white player had received a higher raise than me. Because white people required more money to live than black people. That is why I wasn't going to get a raise.

I think that black Africa is extremely terrifying. Black Africa can become a maelstrom of warring tribes without the outside world needing to feel the need to do anything about it.

When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the best game. And these guys, they'd let me play. And they were black guys.

I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.

The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina.

Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word.

I feel like there should be more black head coaches.

Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and separation of the white and black races. This goal must include freeing of the American media and government from subservient Jewish interests.

But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

No matter what you do, black lace tends to look a little Spanish.

There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal.

I have a lot of looks but right now I'm really into grunge. Messy hair, black heels. I get Michelle Pfeiffer with it.

Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.

I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.

Black beauty - he's a dark horse.

Black Rock gives us all a chance to heal, to become ourselves.

South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white.

I had great admiration for the election of President Obama. I believe that the U.S. at that moment showed tremendous capacity to show that it is a great nation, and it surprised the world. It may be very difficult to be able to elect a black president in the U.S. - as it was very difficult to elect a woman president in Brazil.

I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts.

I want to deal with somebody who comes from another country to the United States and has a family that comes. I don't care if it's a black family from Jamaica or a Hispanic family from Mexico. These issues need to be dealt with, but they need to be dealt with in the entertaining way.

The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.

It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.

There was nothing there but black water and American fire power.