Black Quotes

All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.

You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit the 'Encyclopedia Africana' would provide symbolic order to the fragments created over the past 500 years. That is a major contribution.

I like making black and white films in natural surroundings, but I much prefer shooting a color film inside a studio where the colors are easier to control.

My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.

As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people anywhere on the face of the earth including all of the nations that are ruled by blacks.

I believe that when it comes to major foreign policy issues, many prefer to have black people seen and not heard.

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.

Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think that's wrong. I think we all need someone.

Honest to God, all my life I have had such a fear of spiders. In fact, I use to have a reoccurring dream about one. Very clearly, it was black with a red head. It would sit up in the corner of the bedroom and when it started getting closer, I would wake up in a panic.

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.

I heard we'll get you a pass because we know you're married to a black woman. You're married to a sister so we'll give you that pass but also, those who know me but also if they look at the body of work, it is the bigger picture.

I would like to involve myself in some black music. I would like to do some blues and some gospel music. I want to try stuff from other genres and try to widen my musical base.

The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!

I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic.

And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.

In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.

But I think the possibility of a black and white society feeding each other's expertises, living harmoniously, will probably go along in fits and starts now but at least it has a great constitution now to back it up.

The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.

The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.

The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations?

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.

I think my wife saw a picture of the rock group Journey, and they're kind of aging, and the one guy had dyed blonde hair with black roots, and... my idea was to get a little earring, I wanted to have a dangling earring.

Biology has progressed tremendously due to the model that Darwin put forth. But the black boxes Darwin accepted are now being opened, and our view of the world is again being shaken.

I think things like food, the food of the south is sort of the common tie that binds us all, Black and White, the sense memories. It's a very particular part of the country.

There has been the biggest black cloud following me around. People believe it's all my fault that Steve is not here. He has always had an open door, and he doesn't choose to do this any more.

Two people will never be President in my lifetime. A woman and a black.