Black Quotes

I think in black.

~ Gareth Pugh

I'll stop wearing black when they invent a darker color.

~ Emmanuelle Alt

Every nation is part of the history we inherit, blacks and whites, slaves and gods; we have no other option, embracing each other.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

There is no shortage of well-known pirates, including: Henry Morgan, Captain Kidd, Blackbeard, Blue beard, Yellowbeard, and Yellow beard with Black Roots, who surmised that, if blondes have more fun, then blond pirates must have a heck of a lot more fun.

~ Cuthbert Soup

Oh, hey, kettle, I’m pot and wow, you’re black.” - Owen

~ Olivia Cunning

What is it about humans that make us so prone to prejudice?”Blue arches one of his unnaturally colored eyebrows and looks up to meet my gaze. “If we didn’t form prejudices, we wouldn’t be learning from our environment, you dolt. It’s an animal instinct. If a porcupine’s quill gets stuck in your hand once, you won’t be likely to go grabbing it again soon, right?

~ Rhi Etzweiler

My African roots made me what I am today. They’re the reason I’m from the Dominican Republic. They’re the reason I exist at all. To these roots I owe everything.

~ Junot Díaz

The Complexities Of Life Caused By Bad Government Leaderships And Parental Mistakes Can Make A Child More Matured Than Their Age. It Happened To Me And It Is Still Happening To So Many Children World Wide. Most Especially, In Africa Where I Come From. This Is Why You See So Many African's Do All Sorts Of Bad Deeds For Surfacing And Surviving To Keep Body And Soul Together.

~ Baba Tunde Ojo-Olubiyo

I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.

~ Chuck Klosterman

Sometimes in life, from out of a myriad of prosaic decisions like what to eat and where to sleep and how to dress, a true crossroads is revealed. In these moments, when the fog of relative irrelevancy lifts and fate rolls out a demand for free will, there is only left or right – no option of four-by-fouring into the underbrush between two paths, no negotiating with the choice that has been presented. You must answer the call and pick your way. And there is no reverse.

~ J.r. Ward

Life is not just black and white, there are a million shades in between.

~ Hanif Hassan Barbhuiya

Sarah Lynn strides out of the stairwell. Lawrence watches her go. The door slushes shut behind her, and he turns to me with a tightened jaw. I want to tell him: No, no, you've got it all wrong. I don't care if you kiss a white girl. I don't care if you love a white girl. I just wish you'd chosen a white girl worthy of your love.Lawrence's Adam's apple jerks up and down, and I realize that in addition to whatever else he's feeling, he's scared. He's in love with the darling of the school, Sarah Lynn Lancaster, ad he's afriad I'll expose his secret. I give a tiny shake of my head, wanting him to know he has nothing to fear, not from me.

~ Lauren Myracle

The stains could be seen only in the sunlight, so Ruth was never really aware of them until later, when she would stop at an outdoor cafe for a cup of coffee, and look down at her skirt and see the dark traces of spilled vodka or whiskey. The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her; she had noted in her journal: 'booze affects material as it does people'.

~ Alice Sebold

The truth is usually somewhere in the gray turbulent eddies set in motion by the mixture of black and white.

~ Ken Poirot

Life starts from a white hole and ends in a black hole.

~ Santosh Kalwar

She focused on that nothingness, imagined it as ink spilling over everything she could possibly think or feel.

~ Marie Rutkoski

How’s things, man?” The black man extended his hand for a handshake. Mathematical formulae were jotted on the sleeve of his shirt, right up to the elbow.“Very good,” said Peter. It had never occurred to him before that dark-skinned people didn’t have the option of jotting numbers on their skin. You learned something new about human diversity every day.

~ Michel Faber

You can have a wrestling idea, but you need to have these momentum-shifting moves. We had the Hulkamania movement, then it shifted to the beer-drinking, Stone Cold era, we reinvented the business with growing the black beard and becoming the bad guy, what's that next level.

~ Hulk Hogan

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.

~ Steven Biko

We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.

~ Aretha Franklin

I want people to follow their dreams, yes... but I'm not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers... I want to show them that there's so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

~ J. Cole

My mission is to let black kids know that their dreams can happen.

~ Lee Daniels

I wasn't shy, but I was really hyper. Nobody got my sense of humor. I was a black skater kid.

~ Tyler

I hate to say it but I hate black humor. I feel like a Klan member saying it, but it's just not funny.

~ Issa Rae

For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.

~ Zoe Kravitz

An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us.

~ Elon Musk

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

~ Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

Black and awkward is the worst, because black people are stereotyped as being anything but awkward in mainstream media... Black people are always portrayed to be cool or overly dramatic, anything but awkward.

~ Issa Rae

Pink is my favourite colour. I used to say my favourite colour was black to be cool, but it is pink - all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink.

~ Roxane Gay

I'm a traditionalist, so for me, black coffee is cool.

~ Graham Elliot

I wish I was a cool guy and could drink coffee black, but I put almond milk and raw cane sugar in it.

~ Nick Kroll

I wonder what it's like to be from a state that is spread across a few islands way out in the Pacific Ocean, only added to the United States in 1959. Not only that but to be the birthplace of America's first black president? Pretty cool, I bet.

~ Henry Rollins

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.

~ Aisha Tyler

'Blade' was amazing; I can't imagine the character without Wesley Snipes. He just made a long, black leather trench coat look so cool.

~ Kat Graham

I've been a Robert Randolph fan forever, since 2001. I just thought he was so cool; you don't see a black kid playing the slide the way he plays. No one plays like Robert.

~ Darius Rucker

You don't have to be a certain thing to be cool. If you're white, you don't have to act black or whatever. Just be you and know who you are.

~ Wiz Khalifa

My natural gravitation is toward the gray and the black and the white and the burgundy. Sort of muted, cool colors.

~ Jessica Pare

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard.

~ Anne Spencer

For watching sports, I tend to drink Guinness; early evenings always begin well with a Grey Goose and tonic with plenty of lime; and on a cold winter's night, there's nothing quite like a glass of Black Maple Hill... an absolute peach of a bourbon.

~ Martin Bashir

You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.

~ Charles Barkley