Black Quotes

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard.

It's not impossible for a woman - a Black woman - to become President.

What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the way you dress? Or is it the forgiving of certain things? What is black enough?

We must have black troops, and a limitless number of them too - paid and treated like their white brothers.

The Minutemen were seen as more of an art thing than Black Flag, although I didn't see them that way. It confused people when we put out Saccharine Trust, too.

I haven't done a great deal of it but this was a chance to do more and bring it to that part of the business and even more so, but the fact that it was a black superhero was really the catalyst to me.

We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.

The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it.

Washington is a great international city and in the congregation we have people who are rich and poor, black and white, and from every part of the world.

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

I did have fun, for example, in The Black Hole which was very popular among youngsters.

In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.

I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white.

We don't consider black, urban films as 'indies,' though many of them are shot for under $10 million which is kind of the definition of an indie.

I miss my Dad. My Dad loved cheesy monster movies, so we'd have Godzilla movie marathons. Those are some of my favorite memories, laughing at how the monster outfits were so bad, like black garbage bags for heads.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.

It's important to me that on 'Family Feud' I could kiss all the people. It sounds crazy but when I first came here Petula Clark was on a show with Nat King Cole and he kissed her on the cheek and eighty-one stations in the South canceled him. I kissed black women daily and nightly on 'Family Feud' and the world didn't come to an end, did it?

Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.

I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from India.

In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.

That's how we do it in the black community; we give back to the people who made us who we are. We never forget that.

It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.

The bravery of Stanley Kramer's 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' amounted to two Hollywood legends - Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy - telling the world that a black son-in-law is something they can live with, and so should you, especially if he looks like Sidney Poitier and has degrees.

This country is just that great that the opportunities are there for a Hispanic president, a black president or any other race for a president, yes.

The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

The natural response of the old-timers is to build a strong moral wall against the outside. This is where the world starts to be painted in black and white, saints inside, and sinners outside the wall.

I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being.