Black Quotes

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any claim to blackness other than the biological. They have forgotten their roots.

I think I just went into a system that was willing to utilize me and gave me opportunities and I felt fortunate to be able to go to Oakland and put the silver and black on. I wanted to prove to everybody that I could still play.

My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman.

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1969, in a time and place where no one was saying, 'Look how far we've come,' because we hadn't come very far, to say the least. Although Jackson's population was half white and half black, I didn't have a single black friend or a black neighbor or even a black person in my school.

That kind of thing happens to black people every day in this country, and they don't receive that kind of sentence he did, which was to go to prison on the weekends; I think he lectured there-an outside lecturer.

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

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.

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.

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.

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.