Black Quotes

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.

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.

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.

I used to tell Jackie (Robinson) sometimes when they were throwing at him, 'Jackie, they aren't throwing at you because you are black. They are throwing at you because they don't like you.

I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy.

I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they represent.

You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.

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.

They're keeping friction going between people from the East and the West. One thing we all got in common is your color, which is Black and Latino, which is our family.