Black Quotes
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African-Americans have always viewed the protection of black lives as a civil rights issue, whether the threat comes from police officers or street criminals. Far from ignoring the issue of crime by blacks against other blacks, African-American officials and their constituents have been consumed by it.
James Forman, Jr.
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Juggling is very, very straightforward; very, very black and white; you're manipulating objects, not people. And that's always appealed to me.
Penn Jillette
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I had written a tune called 'Shake, Rattle and Roll,' but the white stations refused to play it - they thought it was low-class black music. We thought what we needed was a new name. But a white disc jockey named Alan Freed laid on it, and he thought up the name 'rock n' roll.'
Jesse Stone
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I hear a creak in my house, and I'm calling the police immediately, but at the same time, I do know that when I call them, I'm going to make sure to say, 'I'm a black guy, and this is my house.'
Kenya Barris
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Pittsburgh is a very hard city, especially if you're black.
August Wilson
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I fight to prioritize black mothers and black children because we deserve to live in a world where our healing is centered and our lives are treated with dignity, respect, and care.
Patrisse Cullors
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An ordinary black hole is thought to be the end state of a really massive star's life.
Andrea M. Ghez
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You discover that the education the Negro gets is designed to keep him subservient. The poor black man is exploited by whites and by educated Negroes, too.
Medgar Evers
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I think that Malcolm X was envisioning, even while he was in the Nation of Islam, a black nationalist progressive strategy toward uniting black people across ideological, class lines, denominational religious lines, Christians, as well as Muslims, to build a strong movement for justice and for empowerment.
Manning Marable
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In my man cave, I have tomahawks, throwing knives, and old black-bear furs. There's skulls, weapons everywhere.
Jason Momoa
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I'm like Johnny Cash. I only wear black.
Adele
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I am reminded of the words of Chairman Mao: It's always darkest before it goes completely black.
John McCain
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As far as my sketches, I've always loved 'What's Up With That.' It's just a whole lot of fun, and I love 'Black Jeopardy,' too. Any kind of host capacity, I'm usually pretty good at.
Kenan Thompson
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I heard a white writer say, 'Oh, I'd never put black people in my writing, I'm afraid I would offend someone by doing it wrong.' I can't bear that!
Alice Mattison
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I tried to do Kwanzaa with my family and was like, 'This sucks. What am I doing this for?' For me, I felt like I was doing it because I was trying to live up to someone else's idea of what 'black' was.
Kenya Barris
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How do you observe something you can't see? This is the basic question of somebody who's interested in finding and studying black holes. Because black holes are objects whose pull of gravity is so intense that nothing can escape it, not even light, so you can't see it directly.
Andrea M. Ghez
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Generally, the realm in which black playwrights have been allowed to achieve success has been social realism or musicals.
George C. Wolfe
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What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.
Albert Brooks
