Black Quotes

There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'.

Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general.

It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The life that Shakespeare was living was the only life he had, and he had to use it to create what he was doing.

The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.

My Soul to Keep is the ultimate love story with a black man and a black woman. I call it the ultimate love story. It's about an immortal. We're shooting for this Fall and that's been a six year development right there.

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

It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.

Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.

There are criminals who are drug users, but most addicts are criminals only by virtue of prohibition or from resorting to crime to pay inflated black market prices.

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

After the accident Black Sheep was pretty much at an end.

Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.

I don't care if you're gay, black, Chinese, straight. That means nothing to me. It's all an illusion.

You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe it's these suburban white kids.' It's only them!

For her fifth wedding, the bride wore black and carried a scotch and soda.

The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans.

Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath.

I don't display my plaques and honors. They are hidden behind a black curtain in my work room at home.

Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white.

I don't know why we work, my husband and I. We just do. We are black and white - yin and yang.

I think most people, when they think about the Black Panther Party, they think in very abstract, caricatured terms. They think about black fists in the air, but they don't think about the actual people, and the families, and the relationships.

SST was formed to put out the first Black Flag record. Basically, there wasn't anyone else to do it. I felt that what I was doing with Black Flag was very worthwhile, and I wanted to get it out there.

We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.

Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era.

If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something.

Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.

It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened.

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

But however long you may have continued in rebellion, and how ever black and long the catalog of your sins, yet if you will now turn to God by a sincere repentance, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall not be cast out.

I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.