Black Quotes

• The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • World
  • Man
  • Dark

• I happen to think that conservatism, when properly applied to the 21st century, could actually help everybody. And the message of Trump's campaign was obviously not super-appealing to Latino Americans, black Americans and so forth. That really bothered me.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Help
  • Me
  • Trump

• Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid, to set the alarm clock for my weekly 6 a.m. flight to Washington, but I know exactly where I came from.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • God
  • May
  • Clock

• Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • World
  • Black
  • Longevity

• There were only two times in my life when I've actually felt down about things and gotten myself into a full mental mess. One of the times was in 1982. I had a horrible time for a few months and felt pretty desperate. Then again in 1984, for various reasons, not all of them within my control. Since then, I just wander in and out of black moods.

  

  Robert Smith The Cure
  • Life
  • Time
  • Pretty

• After Halle Berry does her films and Queen Latifah does her films, it's left to all the black, Latino and Asian actresses to fight over a couple of roles. I opted for some TV. There's just not a ton of work in film.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Work
  • Couple
  • Fight

• There was a certain feeling I developed as a young person for black people. Somehow they were able to get pleasure out of things that I couldn't see them enjoying. I heard them sing a lot, and I didn't hear white folks going down the cotton rows singing that much.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Singing

• My characters make incomprehensible decisions until you stand in their shoes. Then it makes more sense. Life is very rarely black and white, and most people are trying to do their best. I try not to judge.

  

  Jojo Moyes
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• At the time when I was in college, Oscar Grant had just lost his life in Oakland, Calif. He was an unarmed young black male who had a record. And at the time when his death was making headlines, more people were talking about what he had done in his past than the fact that he unjustly lost his life.

  

  Angie Thomas
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• When I die, I want to be buried in a long long-sleeve black Ralph Lauren dress and brown chunky boots. I want my hair styled like his models, long hair that flows. I also want natural makeup with a light pink lip.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Long
  • Light
  • Die

• I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.

  

  Ferguson Jenkins
  • Love
  • Today
  • Hand

• I don't mind doing the green-screen stuff at all, and in fact it's a lot like black-box theater, which I did plenty of in New York.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Mind
  • Doing
  • Green

• To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Black
  • Youth

• 'Black Hole Sun' was written in a car when I was driving home from the studio one night. Pretty much everything that you hear was written in my head.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Home
  • Pretty
  • Night

• There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard.

  

  Ted Knight
  • Black
  • You
  • Guard

• I do detest all offices - all, at least, that are held on a political tenure. And I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Political
  • Black
  • Die

• Because, also the world of showbiz is not just black and white, good and bad.

  

  Klaus Schulze Ash Ra Tempel
  • World
  • Good
  • Bad

• Everything I do, I go to black people. If I have a problem at the airport, I'll go to the black ticket agent. I hope they notice me because I'll get better service. If I'm at a restaurant, I look for the black waiter. Rent-a-Car, give you the upgrade.

  

  Gary Owen
  • People
  • Hope
  • Problem

• The black geeks of the world, we feel like we don't have a home.

  

  Dawn Angeliqué Richard
  • World
  • Home
  • Black

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

  

  Barbara Smith
  • Women
  • Black
  • Fools

• The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Country
  • Mind

• I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Work
  • Important
  • Black-and-white

• I have one good characteristic: I'm a pessimist, so I always imagine the worst - always. To me, the future is a black hole.

  

  Krzysztof Kieslowski
  • Good
  • Future
  • Black

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