Black Quotes

Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four.

~ Chris Rock

When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.

~ Carla Gugino

What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.

~ Bill Russell

Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.

~ Mae West

A black hole really is an object with very rich structure, just like Earth has a rich structure of mountains, valleys, oceans, and so forth. Its warped space whirls around the central singularity like air in a tornado.

~ Kip Thorne

I like black because it is a vacant space.

~ Lady Gaga

Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: Anytime something was not good, or anytime something was bad in some kinda way, it had to be called black. Like, you had Black Monday, Black Friday, black sheep... Of course, everything else, all the good stuff, is white. White Christmas and such.

~ B. B. King

When I cook for my family on Christmas, I make feijoada, a South American dish of roasted and smoked meats like ham, pork, beef, lamb, and bacon - all served with black beans and rice. It's festive but different.

~ Maya Angelou

All families had their special Christmas food. Ours was called Dutch Bread, made from a dough halfway between bread and cake, stuffed with citron and every sort of nut from the farm - hazel, black walnut, hickory, butternut.

~ Paul Engle

The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.

~ A. J. Liebling

I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.

~ George R. R. Martin

I work in colour sometimes, but I guess the images I most connect to, historically speaking, are in black and white. I see more in black and white - I like the abstraction of it.

~ Mary Ellen Mark

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

~ Graham Greene

A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Grandpa on. But novelists, damn us, still need true natures - so we can give them to our protagonists. And so readers can vaguely predict how they'll behave when we trap them in 'situations' that they can't IM their way out of.

~ Walter Kirn

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.

~ Stephen Hawking

My high school English teacher in junior year, Dr. Robert Parsons, assigned us some Poe stories, including 'The Black Cat' and 'The Purloined Letter.' Being an animal person, I had trouble with 'The Black Cat!' I got hooked instead by 'The Purloined Letter,' a Poe story with detective C. Auguste Dupin.

~ Matthew Pearl

I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.

~ Ossie Davis

It used to be that the black comic figure had to have this bravado and always showed strength.

~ Larry Wilmore

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.

~ Danny Glover

I always get the 'goth girl' thing because I wear black. But I don't worship death.

~ Fairuza Balk

In the public, it seems to be painted that when minorities get pregnant, they need to get abortions, especially when it comes to teen pregnancy. It's like, when black girls are pregnant, it's like a statistic, but when white girls get pregnant, they get a TV show.

~ Benjamin Watson

I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.

~ Natasha Lyonne

I was a big fan of black gospel. As a kid, there were black groups I sang with from my teen years to my early 20s.

~ Cory Wells

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.

~ Nina Simone

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.

~ B. B. King

Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach into myself and accept myself.

~ Michael Bolton

The fact that we elected Obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the blues and so much of the music I have loved can triumph.

~ Jack White

The first thing I bought that was really stylish was in 1969 when I was eleven. I saved up for a black, grey and white tie-dye grandad vest. It was too big - they weren't catering for kids my age - and hung off me, but I loved it.

~ Paul Weller

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

~ Harrison Ford

God is on my side, and that's all I need. I get up in the morning, I pray to God. I don't pray to the president, the governor, the mayor, no black caucus, no this and that. I pray to God, and that's the end of it.

~ Mr. T

If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.

~ Lars Ulrich

The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state.

~ Thomas Sowell

The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.

~ Al Sharpton

We have overcome economic devastation, defeated mighty oppressors, and lifted up generation after generation of Americans. We can - and we will - do it again. For that is our birthright as members of the American family - white, black, Hispanic, Asian, immigrant, or descendant of the Founding Fathers themselves.

~ Brian Sandoval

If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.

~ Kanye West

'Harlem: The Unmaking of a Ghetto' is a surprise and a fresh way of looking at Harlem, connecting the black district with the architecture of its historical past.

~ Darryl Pinckney

The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador attain liberty, and inspired our forefathers to shed their blood for the United States' independence, cannot die. Today, this spirit of solidarity must and will empower all of us to rebuild Haiti.

~ Jean-Bertrand Aristide

During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities.

~ Michael N. Castle

It is wrong to divide the nation white against black, native born against immigrant or one religion against another. It is also wrong to divide people by income. East Germany was not an improvement over South Africa. Obama divides Americans against each other. This is wrong.

~ Grover Norquist

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.

~ Audre Lorde