Black Quotes

I was very young at the time, and I mainly appreciated their vocal qualities, even though I was already living as they did - as black performers in a white world.

It's better to be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother.

Americans are inclined to see the world and foreign affairs in black and white.

I think I'm just someone that just tries to get by. I'm kind of - if it was during the Second World War, I'd be a black marketeer, I think.

I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the 'black people's CNN.' Well now, hip-hop is more like Fox News. It's biased, and highly suspect.

The Berlin Defence suited my strategy for the match. I had a defensive strategy - Actually, I had in my pocket some other sharper stuff to fall back on - but first I wanted to try the defensive strategy with Black and it worked so well.

Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.

I joke to people in the press that I realize I'm not black, I'm actually white. But I've got these roots in black American music. I love it.

You have to look at the fact that Hip Hop is under attack. It's not just Hip Hop but Black people, Latino people and all people are under attack for different things.

Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.

Life is about choices. Some we regret, some were proud of. Some will haunt us forever. 'Black Rain' was very much about choices. The message - we are what we chose to be.

I generally don't think most situations can be labeled as black or white.

We're conditioned in this country to believe that if there's a problem, the black man is usually the culprit.

My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves.

I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once I'm still and quiet inside, I'll begin. It's very personal; it has to be. One song may be Bach, the next blues, a song from TV, or a nursery rhyme or jazz piece.

There are not many males, black or white, who wish to get involved with a woman who's committed to her own development.

I'm satisfied it's very black, meaning 'in the black'.

Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man.

Just call me black, if you want to call me anything.

Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it goes back to slavery. And I'm sure my ancestors go all the way back to Africa, but I feel more of an affinity for America than I do for Africa. I'm a black man in America.

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.

And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation.

The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it.

I wasn't always black... there was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.

Black patients were treated much later in their disease process. They were often not given the same kind of pain management that white patients would have gotten and they died more often of diseases.

No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco was a black city in the 1870s. And the Veracruz Coast on the gulf of Mexico and the Costa Chica, south of Acapulco are traditional black lands.

When you are on stage, you don't see faces. The lights are in your eyes and you see just this black void out in front of you. And yet you know there is life out there, and you have to get your message across.

Some of the free lunch programs were still goin' on - based on the last leg of the Black Panther Party.

We were living in a tumultuous time, when the world was upside down. Freeman produced a show that was black and white, the good guys versus the bad guys.

If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.