Black Quotes
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It doesn’t matter whether you’re black, Hispanic, white. They’re all in the same boat. (Black Quotes)
You got black people in an all-white country and they don’t know nothing about themselves (Black Quotes)
Black eyeliner. It’s standard. It’s all you need. It just makes the world a better place. (Black Quotes)
A black President? Now come on y’all, we got Clinton, that’s close. He got negro tendencies. (Black Quotes)
All I want is to know things. The black gulph of the infinite is before me ... (Black Quotes)
Death is the black backing on the mirror that allows us to see anything at all (Black Quotes)
At first, I didn’t like coming down to Los Angeles at all. It’s like, everything’s black and white compared to where I live out in the middle of nowhere. There’s, like, 400 people in my town! (Black Quotes)
Science has proved that everything is energy, and now they have dark energy, dark matter. They don’t call it all-embracing consciousness; they call it dark because they can’t measure it. You know, paint it black. (Black Quotes)
To me, most of life kind of lives in the grey and I don’t just mean morally. I just mean kind of everything. If things were black and white it would be a lot clearer as to what to do all the time. (Black Quotes)
Nothing is all good or all bad, nothing is black or white, everything is just messy and human and difficult. (Black Quotes)
We see in colour all the time. Everything around us is in colour. Black and white is therefore immediately an interpretation of the world, rather than a copy. (Black Quotes)
People say all lives matter. And that’s true, but it’s just black people that are getting shot in the back running or choked to death for having cigarettes or playing their music too loud. (Black Quotes)
If you understand the Black Lives Matter movement, there’s no central leadership of the movement. This is an organic, grassroots movement all around America. (Black Quotes)
My role is to embody the Black Opium woman - I suppose you have to be the living embodiment of all the intangible things the brand stands for. (Black Quotes)
I’ve named a couple things after Edgar Allan Poe: the cat, and my garden upstate, where I only planted black flowers and purple flowers - and there’s a raven statue. (Black Quotes)
Long has black powder been in the hands of dwarves alone. Alas, winds ever change and nothing remains the same forever.Lord Arrlo Salkeld (Black Quotes)
I am not forsaken! I’m no longer alone in the darkness! Before my eyes I see a thousand little devils lighting black candles along the path which leads toward the edge...the blindingly beautiful edge. (Black Quotes)
I remember as a young man seeing these bigger-than-life, strong images of black manhood in the form of Jim Brown and Fred Williamson, Jim Kelly, Billy Dee Williams. All these guys were these alpha males who were smart, attractive. I said, ‘Wow, I want to be like that.’ (Black Quotes)
You can muck around with different guitars for certain bits, but you have to have your own sound. That’s your benchmark, that’s your sound. I also play a Black Beauty. It sounds amazing. (Black Quotes)
I have a black pair of suede Jimmy Choos. I’ve only worn them once to a Sony event. The heels have these arrow plates in a pattern. There’s gold, black and white and they’re amazing! (Black Quotes)
Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver’s conversion? (Black Quotes)
I love Black Sabbath. They made an amazing contribution to music today. Almost every band that made it big in the Nineties owed a debt to them (Black Quotes)
I was lucky to come along for the ride. [My mother] really is an amazing woman. And the world we lived in in South Africa at the time was a very matriarchal society because so many black men had been removed from the home. (Black Quotes)
I’m comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I’m not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive. (Black Quotes)
Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal (Black Quotes)
I believe that the American audience is not so dumb that they wouldn’t be interested in a black story. (Black Quotes)
There were certain expectations that were assumed of me as a young black American 20th-century - then 20th-century artist. (Black Quotes)
Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era. (Black Quotes)
In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There’s so much more to the story. (Black Quotes)
Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I’ve had, are sort of insulted that the civil rights movement is being hijacked - the rhetoric of the civil rights movement is being hijacked for something like same sex marriage. Black Americans tend to have a higher degree of religiosity. (Black Quotes)