Black Quotes

Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

It is frustrating to be a Black woman in the entertainment industry.

The black shadow cares for itself, not for you.

It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people.

We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted to play music that sounded like Black Sabbath or Soundgarden or the music we were into at that time.

Every white will have its black, And every sweet its sour.

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee.

I'll give you an example. Henry, the old black guy who cooks the corn bread, he worked on the railroads for about 20 years so he knows how to lay and build track.

Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.

The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. And that race is no longer the bond that it once was. That's one of the prices you pay for progress.

There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still.

Black man, you are on your own.

In 1965, Gibson made the red one I use now, and a black one, which was the first black 335 they ever made.

There are very few really stark black and white stories.

I am an American. Black. Conservative. I don't use African-American, because I'm American, I'm black and I'm conservative. I don't like people trying to label me. African- American is socially acceptable for some people, but I am not some people.

My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.

The great thing about being the son of Maya Angelou is that I had the good fortune to grow up around some of the greatest black artists, dancers, singers, musicians, and actors of our time.

The only tactic liberals have is to try to intimidate people into thinking that the Tea Party is racist. The Tea Party is not a racist movement, period! If it were, why would the straw polls keep showing that the black guy is winning? That's a rhetorical question. Let me state it: The black guy keeps winning.

There's a lot of single black women who did the best that they could and that's a beautiful thing, but they don't know how necessary a father is in a kid's life and how much guys miss that deep down inside.

I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not me, but black people - that were uncomfortable.

The Geezer album, Black Science, had a lot of keyboards and it did not work.

The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And what we had done is, we wanted to write a program that was straightforward to the people. We didn't want to give a long dissertation.

Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote.

Barack Obama makes me feel good to be a black man.

The deals that were made for Black artists at that time were not the deals that were made for white artists.

Audiences in London called me the girl with the black cherry eyes.

The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.

Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her.

What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.