Black Quotes

Black players had an issue with Joe Torre. They weren't treated like everybody else. Even I got called out in a couple of meetings that I thought was unfair.

Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.

One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they claim they sell very respectable numbers of my books, so I guess, and it's true, every place I go, my books are in libraries and on bookshelves.

There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard.

I think everybody has the ability to fall in love with a man or with a woman or a white person or a black person or a Jewish person or a Protestant person or whatever.

Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies.

What doctor does not need platform heels and dark black eyeliner to treat their patients?

If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black record - the first thing I did that was an actual record.

Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth.

And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5' 11". So I just picked baseball.

Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.

There is no one right now in my judgment that can unite the Black electorate in such a way to present our agenda to a nominee to have them forthrightly address our concerns.

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.'

I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are never black and white, things are very much shades of grey.

Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.

In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.

First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior part is that we need a moral revolution within the African American community. Look - no white racist makes you get pregnant when you are a black teenager.

A lot of people don't know that my father is black.

I'm a tech geek. Whenever I read about something new, I think to myself, How can I take this and make it black?

You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.

They call me racist too just because I disagree with a President who happens to be black. You are not racists - you are patriots.

I wrote a script with my brother which ended up, somehow, on the Black List in 2008.

I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman.

It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music.

So now I feel I'm lucky in the respect that I can sort of pick a little more carefully, which is tricky because as a black actress, there aren't that many roles to pick from.