Black Quotes

I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.

The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina.

Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word.

I feel like there should be more black head coaches.

Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and separation of the white and black races. This goal must include freeing of the American media and government from subservient Jewish interests.

But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

No matter what you do, black lace tends to look a little Spanish.

There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal.

I have a lot of looks but right now I'm really into grunge. Messy hair, black heels. I get Michelle Pfeiffer with it.

Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.

I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.

Black beauty - he's a dark horse.

Black Rock gives us all a chance to heal, to become ourselves.

South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white.

I had great admiration for the election of President Obama. I believe that the U.S. at that moment showed tremendous capacity to show that it is a great nation, and it surprised the world. It may be very difficult to be able to elect a black president in the U.S. - as it was very difficult to elect a woman president in Brazil.

I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts.

I want to deal with somebody who comes from another country to the United States and has a family that comes. I don't care if it's a black family from Jamaica or a Hispanic family from Mexico. These issues need to be dealt with, but they need to be dealt with in the entertaining way.

The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.

It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.

There was nothing there but black water and American fire power.

Nowhere, absolutely nowhere, has there ever been a hint, not even a whisper, that a Black person was involved in the assassination of the president. But that's the kind of thing you have in this movie.

I support any procedure that allows photographers to express themselves, whether that involves color, black and white, platinum, palladium and digital technology.

I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.

I got into my very theatrical phase. I wore only black: a big black hat and wild hair and wild black clothes, and I carried a sword stick. I went there still looking like Miss Florida, and I came back looking very different.

Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission.

I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me.

He was a professional rugby player in the area that I played as a youngster. So a lot of people who I went to school with knew who he was and knew that he was black. So I would get racist taunts in school.

Black Flag was formed in 1977. We first recorded in 1978.

I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.'