Black Quotes

Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that their hearts are black, and that they are often cruel and relentless, and our old men and old women are unable to restrain them. Thus it has ever been.

~ Chief Seattle

I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.

~ Bell Hooks

If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.

~ Spike Lee

I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.

~ Dennis Rodman

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.

~ Audre Lorde

Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.

~ Barbara Smith

Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.

~ Fay Godwin

Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

~ Maya Angelou

I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos.

~ Sun Ra

The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during the period of slavery but also in the Jim Crow era that followed.

~ Jim Webb

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

~ Morgan Freeman

Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.

~ Marty Meehan

After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.

~ Reggie Jackson

The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.

~ Branch Rickey

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.

~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another.

~ Dick Gregory

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.

~ Dan Hawkins

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!

~ Jessica Mauboy

When you see a tumour in the brain, it's an ugly looking thing. It's kind of black, grisly and messy. Or it can be white. To see it taken away is just amazing.

~ James Nesbitt

I'm jamming 'Black Sabbath Vol. 4' all the time. Zappa's 'Cruising With Ruben & The Jets.' A lot of Gong lately. Some Hawkwind. The Residents' 'Duck Stab' is amazing. Some Fugs. Lots of stuff, man. I'm pretty schizophrenic with records.

~ Ty Segall

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.

~ James A. Baldwin

Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up for a sense of power and prestige. That is a disservice. Magic is very colorful. Of this, I am sure.

~ Alan Moore

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

~ James A. Baldwin

All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him have a chance to rise by his own efforts.

~ William Wells Brown

It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.

~ Tupac Shakur

I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.

~ Bob Marley

But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?

~ Robert Kennedy

The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.

~ Malcolm X

I don't differentiate between black and Latino actors. We're in the same struggle to be represented in a way that's even close to honest. And I can tell you that the amount of Latino characters I can point at and say, 'That's what my life experience looks like' - I can't think of any off the top of my head besides Jimmy Smits in 'Mi Familia.'

~ Lin-Manuel Miranda

My worst hair experience was when I was trying to relax my hair and my grandmother did it. It went all straight and I looked like a black Bee Gee.

~ Jamie Foxx

I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.

~ Lauryn Hill

From racial profiling and being pulled over just for 'driving while black' to this new phenomenon of killing unarmed people out of some preconceived idea of fear, our lives and our children's lives are not being valued.

~ Al Sharpton

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.

~ Louis Farrakhan

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

~ Gloria Steinem

Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today.

~ Angela Davis

There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party.

~ Pete Du Pont

For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.

~ Alanis Morissette

We have this film that we hope to finance, it's called 'Southern Rights.' It's a documentary about segregated proms that are still happening in the South of America. So there's a black prom and a white prom, so we hope to finance a film soon about that.

~ John Legend

I have four strikes against me. I'm black, I'm short, I'm intelligent, and I have a medical condition.

~ Gary Coleman

The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market.

~ Pauline Hanson