Black Quotes

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.

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.

This marched was planned to be non violent and non confrontational, and gladly it stayed that way. What really impressed me was the self discipline of the Black Block.

I wear black skinny-fit jeans - I can't get away from them. It's funny because I wore baggy jeans for ages, then one day my friend convinced me to try on a skinny pair and I thought they were great.

I feel kind of like the black sheep in Congress, but here I am.

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.