Black Quotes
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There are many movies which come with an attitude of black and white. I am good and you are bad. And there are many movies that are also trying to see the reality as it is or to discover what really is behind the character or events. (Black Quotes)
Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time. (Black Quotes)
If I or any other black can deliver at the box office, I’ll get a lot of work. Too many young actors, regardless of their color, try to play an attitude on camera and fail to remember their job is to fit into an entertainment. (Black Quotes)
As a child and a teenager, my attitudes and actions assumed the superiority of my race in almost every way without knowing or wanting to know anybody who was black, except Lucy. Lucy came to our house on Saturdays to help my mother clean. I liked Lucy, but the whole structure of the relationship was demeaning. (Black Quotes)
In many ways [those middle-aged black ladies] my touchstone, because they are what I meant when I talked about the audacity of hope. (Black Quotes)
Black Saturday reminded many Australians of what they know only too well: that of all the advanced economies, Australia is perhaps the one most vulnerable to climate change. (Black Quotes)
Most of my avant garde fashion is saved for my videos and for the stage. In real life, I tend towards a classy, black Goth look. I love black, a few sparkles, false eyelashes and boots. But when I perform, I love fantasy and props. (Black Quotes)
If white privilege is a thing, why are people working so hard to be black? All of the award shows and cultural events favor black culture. (Black Quotes)
My first reaction on being awarded the Nobel Prize was, actually, I thought of Fischer Black, my colleague. He unfortunately had passed away. And there was no doubt in my mind that if he were still alive, he would have been a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize. (Black Quotes)
If I were a bad black comic I would name my special, Yo mama, and other stories of a lack of self awareness. (Black Quotes)
The music I’m making is like an explosion of love. It moves away from super dark, its more romanticized and floral, but still quite black. (Black Quotes)
Oscar Charleston was the Willie Mays of his day. Nobody ever played center field better than Willie Mays. Suppose they had never given Willie a chance, and we said that, would anybody believe there was a kid in Alabama who was that good? Or there was a black guy in Atlanta who might break Babe Ruth’s home run record? No. (Black Quotes)
I personally don’t feel any pressure to make jokes about multiple baby-fathers and stereotypical black jokes, because one, that’s just not my life, and two, I wouldn’t even sound right talking about those things. (Black Quotes)
I was relatively isolated from people of color. My parents are too old to be Baby Boomers; they had me later in life. So we didn’t listen to any black music at all in the house, not even Ben E. King. (Black Quotes)
Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don’t talk skin to me. (Black Quotes)
When the black and mortal blood of man has fallen to the ground ... who then can sing spells to call it back again? (Black Quotes)
They’re powerful, those songs. At times they’ve been my only way back, the only door out of the dark, bad places the black dog calls home. (Black Quotes)
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so; life’s business being just the terrible choice. (Black Quotes)
A black dress is beautiful! It’s a good choice. It could be the wrong choice at certain events or situations, but it’s very rare that you see a girl who looks bad in a black dress. (Black Quotes)
I like the way black looks. I think I look better in darker clothes. And maybe the fact that I wear black so much makes me more aware of putting people at ease. The black is sort of the bad-guy guise, so I work overtime to make people comfortable. (Black Quotes)
I quickly learned that asking if an interview space was wheelchair accessible was a bad idea; it gave a potential employer an immediate bad impression. It was either a black mark against my name, or a straight up discussion of why I wouldn’t be able to work there because they had no wheelchair access. (Black Quotes)
There are no black and white, good or bad characters in ‘Game Of Thrones,’ but Joffrey was an exception. Just pure evil. (Black Quotes)
It would be good if teachers could genuinely understand that black English is not mistakes, it’s just different English, and that what you want to do is add an additional dialect to black students’ repertoire rather than teaching them out of what’s thought of as a bad habit, like sloppy posture or chewing with your mouth open. (Black Quotes)
The television industry doesn’t like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that’s black; this is good, that’s bad. (Black Quotes)
My birthmark essentially looks like I have a black eye. It isn’t that bad, so you can imagine if it has been this big a part of my life, think of what it must be like for children with more serious birthmarks that cover half their face. (Black Quotes)
When you’re first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you’re young and you’re black, you do a bad movie and you’re through. (Black Quotes)
I tend to look for the good in bad people and the bad in good people, to make them human. ‘Cause I don’t think that people generally are that black and white. Maybe in movie-land they can be... but that isn’t necessarily all there is. (Black Quotes)
I prefer to leave a little room in my bag to grab goodies when I’m travelling, but otherwise you need one good pair of shoes that can be worn day or night, a pair of black jeans, and a nice dress. (Black Quotes)
Wearing baggy clothes makes me look shorter. I just don’t know anything about fashion. I know what I like wearing. I’m always accused that I wear too much black. I love wearing black. (Black Quotes)
Look, I made a commitment to corn 17 years ago. Sure, I’m a man. I like to go to a barbecue and see beans that I like: baked beans, red beans, black beans, big plump garbanzos. But in the end, I always come home to my sweet, sweet corn. (Black Quotes)