Black Quotes
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It's hard to know which stars in the sky will turn into black holes. And which ones will open up worm holes into entire new universes.
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I think reading about black girls if you are a black girl is important. And for those who don't like to read, seeing yourself in a book can help them learn to love it.
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What is clear is that Malcolm X incorporated within the framework of black nationalism a pan-Africanist and internationalist perspective. In doing so, he began to reassess radically earlier positions sexism and patriarchy. He began to break with notions of sexism that he had long held as a member of the Nation of Islam, and began to advance and push forward women leadership in the OAAU.
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When I find a colour darker than black, I'll wear it. But until then, I'm wearing black!
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Mozart's music is particularly difficult to perform. His admirable clarity exacts absolute cleanness: the slightest mistake in it stands out like black on white. It is music in which all the notes must be heard.
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I had a black belt in Shotokan as a kid.
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Sure, I look like a white man. But my heart is as black as anyone's here.
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Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.
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'Black Hawk Down' has such distinctive visual aplomb that its jingoism starts to feel like part of its atmosphere.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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I don't want to be known as the black model. I want to be recognized as Chanel Iman, a personality.
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That's not to say that some of the new media is not advantageous. You can reach lots of folks with what Black Lives Matter is doing, mobilizing people. God bless them.
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In general, the mass media tell us that black people are not loving, that our lives are so fraught with violence and aggression that we have no time to love.
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Black women do not have as many positive images in the media as we should.
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As a young black boy, it made me proud to see black leaders that did something amazing and made the world change.
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If blacks are oppressed in America, why isn't there a black exodus?
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It's hard to wrap my head around the fact that there are people who can't or won't see what Black Lives Matter is trying to accomplish.
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Has he paid his dues? Is he black enough? … John Lewis and I were out there marching and organizing sit-ins back in the '60s so that his children and my children would not have to do it. … We would have been failures if Obama had to do the same things we did.
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I'm so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.
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But it is true that some magazines have a policy to show only a certain amount of black girls on their covers. Naomi is right. It's not fair, and I wish it would change.
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I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.
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People don't want rap to be anything other than it is. But genres expand. My contributions, no matter how they sound, will always be rap, because they'll always be black.
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Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.
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New Wave art was the rage of the eighties. Now it's exhibited in oldies-but-goodies museums, usually in black-and-pink frames.
