Black Quotes
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My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector’s zeal (Black Quotes)
But it is true that some magazines have a policy to show only a certain amount of black girls on their covers. Naomi is right. It’s not fair, and I wish it would change (Black Quotes)
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn’t there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything (Black Quotes)
Do not limit yourself between black and white, there are thousands of colours in between of them, same process for the yes and no answers, or able and not able (Black Quotes)
I don’t want to make black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money; I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money (Black Quotes)
We were living in a tumultuous time, when the world was upside down. Freeman produced a show that was black and white, the good guys versus the bad guys (Black Quotes)
But between sets I’d sneak over to the black places to hear blues musicians. It got to the point where I was making my living at white clubs and having my fun at the other places (Black Quotes)
As I’ve said repeatedly, republicans are very good at describing things in black and white; democrats are very good at describing the 11 shades of gray (Black Quotes)
Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote (Black Quotes)
The black man should seek to be, and he should be encouraged to be, the best possible black man and not the best possible imitation of a white man (Black Quotes)
Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white (Black Quotes)
We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness (Black Quotes)
Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of poverty, despair, and hopelessness (Black Quotes)
If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars (Black Quotes)
There are black zones of shadow close to our daily paths, and now and then some evil soul breaks a passage through. When that happens, the man who knows must strike before reckoning the consequences (Black Quotes)
Black moleskin gloves covered his hands; the right because it was burned, the left because a man felt half a fool wearing only one glove (Black Quotes)
The white horse and the black one wheeled like lovers at a harvest dance, the riders throwing steel in place of kisses (Black Quotes)
When you were straight, evil thoughts and memories came pouring up out of the darkness inside you; buzzing black flies clinging to the insides of your skull (Black Quotes)
The most important person to thank is... my mother. She gave me four golden rules to live by: be a proud black man, take care of your family, make education a priority, and try to do the right thing (Black Quotes)
Being gay is harder than being black. I didn’t have to come out black. I didn’t have to tell my parents about what its like to be black (Black Quotes)
In matters of honesty, there are no shortcuts; no little white lies, or big black lies, only the simple, honest truth spoken in total candor... Being true is different than being honest (Black Quotes)
Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline (Black Quotes)
There comes a time in every man’s life when he’s consumed by the desire to spit on his palms, hoist the black flag and start cutting throats (Black Quotes)
This is the very center of everything there is. A huge black hole eating up the galaxy. The end of everything (Black Quotes)
A little black dress is something to rely on. To fill you with confidence and ease. To have an attitude that is pure and effortless, yet sexy and classy (Black Quotes)
I have long been disposed to judge men by their average. If it is reasonably high, I am charitable with faults that look pretty black (Black Quotes)
In this perilous world, if a black boy wanted to live a halfway normal life and die a natural death he had to learn early the art of how to get along with white folks (Black Quotes)
The locomotives are black. The coal is black. The tracks are black. The night is black. So what am I going to do with color? (Black Quotes)
I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience (Black Quotes)
In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it’s as if they don’t exist (Black Quotes)