Black Quotes
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I lie in an early bed thinking late thoughts, waiting for the black to replace my blue. I do not struggle in your web because it was my aim to get caught. But daddy long legs I feel that I’m finally growing weary of waiting to be consumed by you (Black Quotes)
With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment? (Black Quotes)
Friendship is also a kind of medicine, and the markets for it, too, are sometimes black (Black Quotes)
We need to eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white (Black Quotes)
Escape from the black cloud that surrounds you. Then you will see your own light as radiant as the full moon (Black Quotes)
Never yet could I find that a black had uttered a thought above the level of plain narration; never saw even an elemental trait of painting or sculpture (Black Quotes)
Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing (Black Quotes)
We are told, that the black bear is innocent; but I should not like to trust myself with him (Black Quotes)
White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or... and oppression of others (Black Quotes)
I’m not black, but there’s a whole lot of times I wish I could say I’m not white (Black Quotes)
You realize the bad guy isn’t wearing a black cape or easy to spot; he’s funny, makes you laugh, and has perfect hair (Black Quotes)
Black eyeliner. It’s standard. It’s all you need. It just makes the world a better place (Black Quotes)
You are not a black hole that needs to be filled; you are a light that needs to be shined (Black Quotes)
Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way (Black Quotes)
It is dark now. The snow is deep blue and the ocean nearly black. It is time for some music (Black Quotes)
When you’re black, you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people. It’s a dirty, dark secret; I’m glad it’s coming out (Black Quotes)
There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black president (Black Quotes)
There’s no black male my age, who’s a professional, who hasn’t come out of a restaurant and is waiting for their car and somebody didn’t hand them their car keys (Black Quotes)
Most people I know of that mix have a real ability to be in a room with anyone, black or white (Black Quotes)
Look around at the azaleas making fuchsia star bursts in spring; look at a full moon hanging silver in a black sky on a cold night. And realize that life is glorious, and that you have no business taking it for granted (Black Quotes)
The moon is quite a show off given the chance. The stars make a sound when they shine so bright. Water so blue and so black (Black Quotes)
Soul is at home in the deep, shaded valleys. Heavy torpid flowers saturated with black grow there. The rivers flow like warm syrup. They empty into huge oceans of soul (Black Quotes)
I make shoes for white suburban kids, not the poor black kids. That would be like opening a restaurant for people without stomachs (Black Quotes)
The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more (Black Quotes)
What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed?... Misery is a more welcome visitant when she comes in her darkest guise and wraps us in perpetual black, for then the heart no longer sickens with disappointed hope (Black Quotes)
The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline of labor which enslaves them for their own good (Black Quotes)
One principle I’ve been fighting for that doesn’t endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just as complicated and screwed up as white people. Our motives can be just as base and violent. Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you (Black Quotes)
When I cook him dinner and I burn it black, he better say hmmm, I like it like that (Black Quotes)
Mama, put my guns in the ground, I can’t shoot them anymore. That long black cloud is coming down (Black Quotes)
To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch black, just listening to the boom of silence: you can’t imagine what that’s like (Black Quotes)