Black Quotes
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I carry a knife now because I read in a white magazine that all black people carry knives. So I rushed out and bought me one (Black Quotes)
I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from which we are living the legacy and which just don’t get made (Black Quotes)
I love that as a black person I’ve experienced not being a minority. I think that’s helped me to combat the minority mentality people can have here, which can stop them scaling the heights (Black Quotes)
I could no longer afford to be jealous or unfriendly, because, as soon as I was, a bandage came down over my eyes, and I was bound hand and foot and cast aside. All at once a black hole opened, and I was helpless inside it. But when I was happy and serene, approached people with confidence and thought well of them, I was rewarded with light (Black Quotes)
She’s only pretty in that she has two small black eyes and a good figure (Black Quotes)
From my mother came the idea that going down to the sea repaired the spirit. That is where she walked when she was sad or worried or lonely for my father. If she had been crying, she came back composed; if she had left angry with us, she returned in good humor. So we naturally believed that there was a cleansing, purifying effect to be had; that letting the fresh wind blow through you mind and spirits as well as your hair and clothing purged black thoughts; that contemplating the ceaseless motion of the waves calmed a raging spirit (Black Quotes)
Typhoons are a sort of violent whirlwinds. Before these whirlwinds come on... there appears a heavy cloud to the northeast which is very black near the horizon, but toward the upper part is a dull reddish color. The tempest came with great violence, but after a while, the winds ceased all at once and a calm succeeded. This lasted... an hour, more or less, then the gales were turned around, blowing with great fury from the southwest (Black Quotes)
Black and white are absolute... expressing the most delicate vibration, the most profound tranquility, and unlimited profundity (Black Quotes)
The great black and white draftsman, the sculptor, and the blind man know that form and color are separate. The form itself is what the blind man knows... Color is surface skin that fits over the form (Black Quotes)
You don’t have a baby based on that publicity madness. People don’t live like that. Especially black people who were raised in families with morals and standards and integrity (Black Quotes)
For you who came so far; for you who held out, wearing a black scarf to signify grief; for you who believe true love can find you amidst this atlas of tears linking one town to its own memory of mortar, when it was still a dream to be built and people moved there, believing, and someone with sky and birds in his heart said this would be a good place for a park (Black Quotes)
What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled? (Black Quotes)
Black and white is a very minimalist art form and unlike color photographs does not pretend to mimic the world in a manner similar to the way the human eye might perceive... Black and white is essentially an abstract way to interpret and transform what one might refer to as reality (Black Quotes)
Nobody black or white who really believes in democracy can stand aside now; everybody’s got to stand up and be counted (Black Quotes)
I know that I am a black man in a white world... I know that I never had it made (Black Quotes)
Were going to fight racism not with racism, but were going to fight with solidarity. We say were not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but were going to fight it with socialism (Black Quotes)
It’s really the sense of isolation, more than anything, realizing how tiny you are down in this big vast black unknown and unexplored place (Black Quotes)
They said the black oil wouldn’t come ashore. Well, it is ashore. It’s here to stay and it’s going to keep coming (Black Quotes)
For me, soldiers are all equal. Those black people wore your same uniform, fought on your side, and so you will be in the same jail (Black Quotes)
I have found in black metal the lyrics are profoundly beautiful... a pathos and mythos at the same time (Black Quotes)
It’s black women as perpetual sidekick. We need to hear from more women’s voices. And it would be nice to see some books geared toward us (Black Quotes)
I am the colour red, in a world of black and white and if you value your ability to breathe... Don’t get too close (Black Quotes)
It was any outcast’s nightmare. If I looked carefully, I suspected I might find it beneath the black paint of the small acrylic by the window (Black Quotes)
I’m still trying to change the way people see black dancers that we can become delicate dancers, that we can be a ballerina (Black Quotes)
Many of the greatest black athletes of all time played baseball for no money and no recognition. I’m just sorry many major league fans never got to see them play, because many of them were awesome (Black Quotes)
The logic behind white domination is to prepare the black man for the subservient role in this country (Black Quotes)
Every man should own a navy cashmere jacket with gold buttons, a grey suit, black shoes shoes for the city, brown shoes for elsewhere. Everything else should be simple and really well made (Black Quotes)
I always wear my black watch on my left wrist so I know I’m on stage on time (Black Quotes)
I don’t see anything wrong with a neighborhood association wanting to keep their neighborhood a certain way or their apartment complex a certain way. I don’t see anything wrong with white kids wanting to go to school with white children, or black kids wanting to go to school with black kids (Black Quotes)
You can’t get more racist than hating black conservatives just because they’re black (Black Quotes)