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.

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.

OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.

Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.

One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just as complicated and screwed up as white people. Our motives can be just as base and violent. Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.

Quite frankly, I've always listened to the black side of the radio dial. Where I grew up, there was a lot of it and there was a lot of live music around.

You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern.

We believe that when you make Black America better - you make all of America better.

I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.

There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party.

This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and even though we're free on paper and in law, I'm not going to allow you to enslave me on film, in celluloid, for all to see.

It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. He bears the fury of the storm as does the willow tree.