Black Quotes

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.

For longer than I've been involved in the political process, the Republican establishment has claimed to want to provide an alternative for the black community, yet party elite refuse to show up for the game.

When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?

Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.

My name is Arsenio. That's a very unique name for a black man. In Greek, it means Leroy.

I took a private lesson, but it didn't really work out, so I went back to playing along with records. That's really the thing that got me into playing a lot - getting excited about playing along with my favorite bands like Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.

Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.

Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.

The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river.

I'm like Johnny Cash. I only wear black.

When I was a kid, I was following black soul music.

It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because there is nothing to defend.