Black Quotes

I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.

My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip.

I have visited some places where the differences between black and white are not as profound as they used to be, but I think there is a new form of racism growing in Europe and that is focused on people who are Middle Eastern. I see it.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

We're always trailing, as far as the amount of roles that are written for us and the films that are being made that have black characters in them. I don't know if that's going to change.

Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.

Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.

If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet.

There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.

Guys just don't care. We don't take the time to plan behind each other's back. We just say, If you don't like me, screw you'. If a guy doesn't like you, you know because you have a black eye.

Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.

The minimum wage is the black teenage unemployment act. It is the guaranteed way of holding the poor, the minorities and the disenfranchised out of the mainstream is if you price their original services too high.

Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.

Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.

After all, the wool of a black sheep is just as warm.

If you ain't got your black hat, there ain't no use in filling out an application.

We don't live in a world that's black and white.

Even in 2012, if there's a black character in the movies or on television that's a professional, if we even hear about their backgrounds they're always 'up from the streets.'

In my whole life, I've worn black tie three times. I can't tie the knot myself.

Certain black leaders would believe that you have to go through their prism: 'If I lay my hand on you, you're OK.' So many people have made a living off of the pimping of race.

In the beginning it was all black and white.

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

Typically, historical black colleges and universities like Delaware State, attracted students who were raised in an environment where going to college wasn't the next natural step after high school.

You can muck around with different guitars for certain bits, but you have to have your own sound. That's your benchmark, that's your sound. I also play a Black Beauty. It sounds amazing.

I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.

Diversity doesn't mean black and white only.

In the black culture, certain kids are given nicknames that they roll with forever; the nicknames outweigh their real names. I'm one of those scenarios.

All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him have a chance to rise by his own efforts.

I still think the best metal bands have a blues feel. The first Black Sabbath album is kind of a bludgeoning of blues. Deep Purple also started out as a blues band.