Black Quotes

If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be.

Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and we just did it.

If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.

I decorated my house like a medieval gothic castle, European-style. Chandeliers and red velvet curtains. My bedroom is pink and black, my bathroom is totally Hello Kitty, I have a massive pink couch and a big antique gold cross.

During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.

I'm not that interested in fashion... When someone says that lime-green is the new black for this season, you just want to tell them to get a life.

One lady told me that before she saw 'Sounder' she didn't believe black people could love each other, have deep relationships in the same way as white people.

My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down.

I couldn't wait to be, you know, a Black Panther. Of course they wouldn't let me join.

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.

So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities.

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.

So for Bullitt, I just put my black hat back on.

The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad.

If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.

We need more male black teachers, tempting them with extra cash if necessary.

Better have a black face than be worried about black deeds.

I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.

Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.

I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!

The Sixth Sense is not a good white film. Insomnia is not a good white film. They're just good films. So why we can't we have good films that happen to have black people, or Asian, or Latino, or any other minority group in them?

All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.

My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo.

In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable.

I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.

It took about six years to get the Black Lung stuff. It didn't come just instantly. Sometimes, I see lobby groups, today, upset because they work the whole session and nothing happens.

I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.

When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game.

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.