Black Quotes

We procured from an Indian a weasel perfectly white except the extremity of the tail which was black: great numbers of wild geese are passing to the south, but their flight is too high for us to procure any of them.

I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.

It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black.

I like the way black looks. I think I look better in darker clothes. And maybe the fact that I wear black so much makes me more aware of putting people at ease. The black is sort of the bad-guy guise, so I work overtime to make people comfortable.

The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration.

Speaking as a black person, welfare is the worst thing that's ever happened to us.

Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.

Kids today don't watch a black and white movie.

And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.

Having a separate bathroom for the black domestic was just the way things were done. It had faded out in new homes by the time the '70s and '80s rolled up.

Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?

I don't think the philosophy really changes between men and women. I think golf courses need to become more distance-friendly overall. I think golf courses almost need to develop a more generic set of tees instead of calling them black, blue, red or whatever.

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.

If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.

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.