Black Quotes

• As a black woman, there's so much pride and communication through hair. It's naturally something that you are excited to embellish on and be creative about.

  

  Kelela Mizanekristos
  • Hair
  • Pride
  • Communication

• Black does not appear in the rainbow of hope.

  

  Norman Hartnell
  • Hope
  • Black
  • Appear

• I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Ideas
  • Addiction
  • Meat

• I got into my very theatrical phase. I wore only black: a big black hat and wild hair and wild black clothes, and I carried a sword stick. I went there still looking like Miss Florida, and I came back looking very different.

  

  Delta Burke
  • Different
  • Black
  • Hair

• I think that's what's so great about 'Jessica James' is you get to sit back and take a moment and realize that this person is black. And some days, this character wakes up and feels black, and some days, she doesn't. That is, for me, a fully black experience.

  

  Jessica Williams
  • Up
  • Great
  • She

• Subprime lending is growing faster in black areas than in white areas.

  

  Bill Dedman
  • Black
  • Growing

• I think when black performers performed in blackface, they were kind of taking back slave songs, but it was still a little bit iffy because they were performing, a lot of times, for white audiences who found it hilarious.

  

  Cecile McLorin Salvant
  • Song
  • Kind
  • Audience

• There was [ in New York] - some of it was this perception of the Midwest that I realized in this multicultural city that - and I don't think it's as true as it was - but everyone was kind of like, what, are you Jewish? Are you Italian? What are you? You know, are you black? Are you da-da-da? Are you Puerto Rican? And so I ended up - my ethnic identity was Midwestern, was white bread. And so it informed a lot of my stand-up.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Thinking
  • Identity
  • Perception

• It's actually OK to be unique and have your own contributions, to celebrate what it means to be black, how we've survived and thrived through the worst conditions possible.

  

  Alicia Garza
  • Black
  • Unique

• Out of the blue and into the black

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Black
  • Blue

• When I was a teenager, I was the only black girl at a small, private Episcopal school, where my tuition was paid by the family my mother worked for. It was hard being the only one, and I faced a fair amount of racist and classist bullying there.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • Family
  • School
  • Mother

• I guess I have kind of a type. Pretty much anybody who shows up in a black leather overcoat, I've doubled for them.

  

  Chad Stahelski
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Black

• I never thought black people would say I wasn't black enough. It didn't turn me into a bully - it just put me on the defensive. I had to watch my back. It made me stronger because I learned how to deal with ignorance.

  

  Tionne Watkins TLC
  • People
  • Black
  • Ignorance

• Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.

  

  Jesse Jackson
  • God
  • Men
  • Children

• '… a faded black T-shirt with a soaring penguin and the slogan 'Where do you want to come from today?'' – Newton's Wake

  

  Ken MacLeod
  • Today
  • Black

• The truth is, for me, when I was a young black girl who knew I was different, was watching TV, I would always be staring at the TV set looking for myself, and I didn't see me. And when you don't see yourself, you start to think that you don't matter, or you start to think that something is wrong with you.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • Different
  • Truth
  • Girl

• Since we started putting together our makeup collection, Kardashian Beauty, I've been extra invested in our list of no-no ingredients. It's an ingredients black list that we don't allow into the products - no parabens, no sulfates.

  

  Kourtney Kardashian
  • Together
  • Black
  • Makeup

• I didn't see how wearing prosthetics was quite so different from being born with flaming red hair in a crowd of black-haired babies, or being of a different religion from that of every other child in your area.

  

  Aimee Mullins
  • Different
  • Hair
  • Red

• You can't go wrong mixing classic graphics in black and white. It's very Parisienne.

  

  Brad Goreski
  • Black

• He [Cassius Clay] became a Black Muslim, which is a pseudo-religion for unbright neurotics who feel the need to hate all white people.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • People
  • Black
  • Hate

• It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed in the late 60s when black studies started. You'd get one here and one there and one here, like Johnny Appleseed.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Study
  • Lonely
  • Intellectual

• There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. Horrible as successful artists often are, there is nothing crueler or more vain than a failed artist.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Soul
  • Energy
  • Artist

• I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • People
  • Black
  • Eye

• When a Cat adopts you, and I am not superstitious at all I don't mean only Black cats there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it and wait until the wind changes.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Up
  • Done
  • Wind

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