Black Quotes

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.

~ Zora Neale Hurston

I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.

~ Bell Hooks

My first experiences of Colorado travel have been rather severe. At Greeley, I got a small upstairs room at first, but gave it up to a married couple with a child, and then had one downstairs no bigger than a cabin, with only a canvas partition. It was very hot, and every place was thick with black flies.

~ Isabella Bird

I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.

~ Huey Newton

I've gotten nothing but warmth from the Black community and positive feedback.

~ Misty Copeland

When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.

~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

There are many positive things to say about the black community. No question about it.

~ William Julius Wilson

I love mayonnaise. Every birthday when I was a kid I'd go to Black Angus and just dip my burger in mayo.

~ Blake Anderson

Jesus' birthday is commercialized, so of course, Black History Month is commercialized.

~ Jidenna

In movies we tend make things black and white: you're either this, or you're that.

~ Bill Skarsgard

I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.

~ Whoopi Goldberg

My entertainment was going to the local dollar movie theatre on the weekend, where I watched old black and white movies. If you wanted current movies, you had to drive to the big city.

~ L'wren Scott

They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be carried out in the streets. That's like when they tell you after you buy your VHS and you rent movies they tell you not to copy the movies.

~ Afrika Bambaataa

Faith is the black person's federal reserve system.

~ Hattie Mcdaniel

Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.

~ Raymond Loewy

I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.

~ James Dyson

When you're 8 years old, and you've become subconsciously familiar with the layout and design of Black Sparrow books, and you know the difference between Miles Davis and John Coltrane, something is bound to stick.

~ Patrick Dewitt

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.

~ Gary Bauer

I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, and that is marriage. I think, for instance, that it would be far easier for Americans to elect a black president or a female president than an unmarried president.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

From 1865 to 1965, my race, the black race, was one of the most competitive, entrepreneurial, Christian, moral races in our country. We had the highest percentage of entrepreneurs in the country, the highest percentage of marriage in the country.

~ Burgess Owens

I was born in Brazil and grew up in the '70s under a climate of political distress, and I was forced to learn to communicate in a very specific way - in a sort of a semiotic black market. You couldn't really say what you wanted to say; you had to invent ways of doing it. You didn't trust information very much.

~ Vik Muñiz

The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.

~ Anne Lamott

Black beauty - he's a dark horse.

~ Tim Vine

Yes, we do defend our office as we do defend our homes. This is a constitutional right everybody has, and nothing's funny about that. The only reason they get mad at the Black Panther Party when you do it is for the simple reason that we're political.

~ Fred Hampton

If you look at shows like 'Def Comedy Jam' in its heyday, there were so many really funny, talented black comics that never would have gotten on that show because they just weren't doing comedy that fit that mold.

~ Aisha Tyler

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.

~ Günter Grass

I come from a real working class background, and I didn't know anyone sophisticated - except I saw Edie Sedgewick once at the Art Museum in Philly. She had these black leotards and little black pumps and this big ermine cape and all these white dogs and black sunglasses and black eyes. She was classy!

~ Patti Smith

Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.

~ Federico García Lorca

I have certainly met much more discrimination in terms of being a woman than being black, in the field of politics.

~ Shirley Chisholm

Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of what we dreamed and struggled and died for.

~ Bobby Seale

The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.

~ H. Rap Brown

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

~ Barack Obama

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

~ Jean Paul

All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.

~ Martin Mcdonagh

As an actress, I have put myself out there as an independent black woman, a single mom, a go-getter, a hustler who isn't afraid to survive.

~ Lisaraye Mccoy-Misick

My mom is a yoga instructor: 100% black with dreadlocks.

~ Meghan Markle

My dad is Caucasian, and my mom is African American. I'm half black and half white. Being biracial paints a blurred line that is equal parts staggering and illuminating.

~ Meghan Markle

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be a colony in a nation.

~ Richard M. Nixon

Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.

~ Rand Paul

Everybody knows now that Marie Lightfoot, the true crime writer, is dating Franklin DeWeese, the state attorney of Howard County, Florida. They know I'm a white woman; they know he's a black man. That's not news anymore.

~ Nancy Pickard