Black Quotes
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Black Lives Matter is one iteration of a much larger struggle to fight for black people's freedom.
Patrisse Cullors
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Do you realize how much better the world would be if we all just treated each other the same way black dudes treat magicians?
Aziz Ansari
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Prejudice doesn't make me mad. It just - I guess 'pisses me off' is the word.
Chuck Berry
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Obviously yeah, but our first album took us five years to put together, to get signed and to put it out, we had a lot of time to think about what we were doing. Black Sunday was like a whirl wind, we had to rush back to the studio after touring, but the last album we had a little longer, what like eight months?
Louis Mario Freese
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I think sports has done a disservice for a lot of black kids thinking they can only be successful through athletics and entertainment. I want them to know they can be doctors, lawyers, teachers, fireman, police officers, etc.
Charles Barkley
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Do you realize that if you fall into a black hole, you will see the entire future of the Universe unfold in front of you in a matter of moments and you will emerge into another space-time created by the singularity of the black hole you just fell into?
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrate the many achievements and rich culture of African-Americans.
Eliot Engel
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I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other.
bell hooks
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That woman I once was, in a black agate necklace, I do not wish to meet again till the Day of Judgement.
Anna Akhmatova
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Because, if I'm honest, people in the white world might be appalled, but in the black world, they're making myths out of me. And I know that ain't the life.
John Singleton
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I wrote two poems about the '81 uprisings: 'Di Great Insohreckshan' and 'Mekin Histri.' I wrote those two poems from the perspective of those who had taken part in the Brixton riots. The tone of the poem is celebratory because I wanted to capture the mood of exhilaration felt by black people at the time.
Linton Kwesi Johnson
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I have a really simple wardrobe. I wear a low-scoop tee every day with a tux or leather jacket and tux pants or black jeans. That's pretty much it.
Johan Lindeberg
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I was into Black Power, and my practice Oxbridge essay was a rant. The headmistress said I'd never get in with that, but she was probably wrong. I was the ideal combination: a swot who was also a bad girl.
Mary Beard
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Tutankhamun was not black, and the portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilization as black has no element of truth to it.
Zahi Hawass
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Sure, I look like a white man. But my heart is as black as anyone's here.
George C. Wallace
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I wanted to write about the experiences of the poor and the black and the rural people of the South.
Jesmyn Ward
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Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can't get out, but the puzzle that many struggled with over the decades is, what happens to the information that an object contains when it falls into a black hole. Is it simply lost?
Brian Greene
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'Black Watch' has taken its place in the canon of Scottish theatre, and that's fantastic. It's a very particular kind of theatre. It's about the music, the movement, the whole 'event' of it.
John Tiffany
