Black Quotes

Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast.

What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.

Republicans think that the NAACP is the only voice in the black community. It is a voice in the black community. But it's not the only voice.

Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another.

My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So... you're black.'

This whole notion that all African-Americans are not going to vote for Obama is not necessarily true. I believe a third would vote for me, based on my own anecdotal feedback. Not vote for me because I'm black but because of my policies.

I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.

The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge and sleek which are characteristics I try to apply when I'm out there on the basketball court.

The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better.

But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.

I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.

My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip.

I have visited some places where the differences between black and white are not as profound as they used to be, but I think there is a new form of racism growing in Europe and that is focused on people who are Middle Eastern. I see it.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

We're always trailing, as far as the amount of roles that are written for us and the films that are being made that have black characters in them. I don't know if that's going to change.

Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.

Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.

If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet.

There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.

Guys just don't care. We don't take the time to plan behind each other's back. We just say, If you don't like me, screw you'. If a guy doesn't like you, you know because you have a black eye.

Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.

The minimum wage is the black teenage unemployment act. It is the guaranteed way of holding the poor, the minorities and the disenfranchised out of the mainstream is if you price their original services too high.

Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.

Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.

After all, the wool of a black sheep is just as warm.

If you ain't got your black hat, there ain't no use in filling out an application.

We don't live in a world that's black and white.

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.

Even in 2012, if there's a black character in the movies or on television that's a professional, if we even hear about their backgrounds they're always 'up from the streets.'