Black Quotes

With respect to Barack Obama, let's face it; Barack Obama is an iconic figure in the African-American community. We respect that. We understand that. African-Americans are going to vote for the first black president, especially when he happens to share the liberal politics on economic issues that many in that community hold.

It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

One must learn how to be black in America.

Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made.

It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda.

So one of the things that happened with integration in the South is they found that the black teachers were much more educated than the white teachers.

Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes!

One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.

Naturally we need black men to give this movie serious credibility.

If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate.

I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal. Touch my skin to keep me whole. If only you'd come back to me. To feel you at my side, wouldn't need no Mojo Pin to keep me satisfied.

I've had two unlucky injuries that are the equivalent of walking under 1,000 ladders and seeing 1,000 black cats.

I remember when I came home from the hospital after having my son, I wore a Narciso Rodriguez black coat. Then, I was using this fragrance that I had created. I walk by that coat, and it still smells like that fragrance. It takes you right there.

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.

Elvis' disappearing body is like a flashing event horizon at the edge of the black hole that is America today.

Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty.

The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.

In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the Mexican American, the Puerto Rican American, the American Indian, and black people.

The Dominican Republic says 'We're black behind the ears.' And in Mexico, 'there's a black grandma in the closet.' They know, they've just been intermarrying for a long time. But if we did the DNA of everyone in Mexico a whole lot of people would have a whole lot of black in them.

As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work.

From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.

I'm a little bit more unusual so I consider myself as the black sheep.

Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighbourhood.

Many of the Jews who owned the homes, the apartments in the black community, we considered them bloodsuckers because they took from our community and built their community but didn't offer anything back to our community.

During the writer's strike I was walking a line and ran into Jack Black and he said,'We're doing Airborne 2!', and I asked, 'Are you kidding?', and he said, 'Yeah.' I like 'Airborne,' its very pure.

When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor.

It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.

My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.