Black Quotes

We could play them through the week, and then the weekend we could play the black joints. I learned to be very versatile and learned to love it. So it stays with me even up to now.

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.

Black people are inferior to Caucasians. Blacks constitute a totally distinct group; they overshadow the country with the germ... of evil.

I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, 'You can like Mozart and ice hockey...' - and then I used to say 'golf,' but Tiger took over golf! - 'and Picasso and still be as black as the ace of spades.'

I was really into Black Sabbath, but heavy guitars can really be very limiting, it's a great frequency and it's great fun to listen to but on the other hand, musically you can do a lot more without it.

But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?

Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this country: and in the future he will be so honored.

At present, black children are more segregated in their public schools than at any time since 1968. In the inner-city schools I visit, minority children typically represent 95 percent to 99 percent of class enrollment.

Illegal immigrants are beginning to comprise a black market class of workers in our society, jeopardizing the financial health of companies which play by the rules, while themselves vulnerable to the exploitation by those willing to take advantage of their illegal status.

I'm the black sheep.

We did an episode on Good Times which came out of a newspaper article about the incidence of hypertension in black males being higher than whites, and increasing. So we did a show in which James, the father on Good Times, had hypertension.

George Bush doesn't care about black people.

We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.

The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy.

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.

It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.

Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.

Everybody says it: black, white; everybody calls me a legend. Italians, Jews. Everybody.

And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers.

At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.

Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.

Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.

What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?

Computers are scary. They're nightmares to fix, lose our stuff, and, on occasion, they crash, producing the blue screen of death. Steve Jobs knew this. He knew that computers were bulky and hernia-inducing and Darth Vader black. He understood the value of declarative design.

I'm not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black person to hold our president accountable for his actions.

I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.