Black Quotes

I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.

There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors.

When I'm not working I just like to be comfortable: I love black, nothing tight, no heels, no make-up - it's nice to be able to breathe!

It may be for 20 or 30 years no one has yet been able to decide the length of the life of the black bass.

I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike a color film.

Terrorism is not new to black people.

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.

I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.

I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.

Most Australians live in the cities on the east coast, where contact between black and white occurred as much as 200 years earlier than on the west coast - and where 95 percent of Australians are able to live 95 percent of their lives without ever seeing an Aboriginal face.

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

I think my work shows that I love women. I understand where these types of criticisms are coming from because black people have been so dogged out in the media, they're just extra sensitive.

You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun.

In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love.

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.