Black Quotes

• I have a lot of respect for President Obama, and while I deeply disagree with some of his actions or lack of action on issues I care about, I still recognize the significance of the first black presidency and the challenges that come with that.

  

  Alicia Garza
  • Black
  • Respect
  • Action

• I was 17, and a friend said, 'Man, you've got to listen to this song,' and he played 'Man to Man.' From there on, I was hooked on country. Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, Clint Black. Every show that came through America West Arena, I was there.

  

  Dierks Bentley
  • Country
  • America
  • Song

• I already optioned a book called The Personal History of Rachel DuPree. I also like The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill. And I love all of Octavia Butler's books. She's created some very complicated black heroines with a variety of belief systems. There are many great books out there, but those are a few of the ones that stand out.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Book
  • Belief
  • Complicated

• When I introduced a black soldier, Lt. Flap, in 1971, the Stars and Stripes banned the strip. They were having racial problems and thought it would increase the tensions.

  

  Mort Walker
  • Problem
  • Soldier
  • Tension

• I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.

  

  Chad Hugo N.E.R.D.
  • Black
  • White
  • Hip Hop

• I was born black, I attended all Negro schools including college, I grew up in the segregated South during Jim Crow. If anybody knows a racist, I do. Pat Buchanan ain't no racist.

  

  Ezola B. Foster
  • Born
  • Racist
  • Negro

• I've dated interracially a lot. I grew up in Harlem, so I've dated Latins, Dominican, Guyanese, Cuban, black, white.

  

  Mekhi Phifer
  • Up
  • Black

• There haven't been fundamental structural changes in America. There's been a very important symbolic change and that is the election of Barack Obama. But the only black people who truly live in a post-racial world in America all live in a very nice house on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• There's not a woman in the book, the plot hinges on unkindness to animals, and the black characters mostly drown by Chapter 29.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Character
  • Book
  • Animal

• They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black.

  

  John Selden
  • Black

• It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and female authors are ghetto-ized as 'other.'

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • Work
  • American
  • Ghetto

• Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.

  

  Cassandra Wilson
  • Audience
  • Movement
  • Involved

• Today my passion is still black and white. Today if I have an array of cameras in front of me the one I would reach for that I would feel most comfortable with would be a 4 X 5 View camera. I was once working in a sort of soft light situation.

  

  John Sexton
  • Today
  • Light
  • Passion

• It is the night-black Massachusetts legendry which packs the really macabre "kick". Here is material for a really profound study in group-neuroticism; for certainly, no one can deny the existence of a profoundly morbid streak in the Puritan imagination.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Night
  • Imagination
  • Study

• I have a very simple mantra and it's this: I want to make black cinema with the power, beauty, and alienation of black music. That's my big goal. The larger preoccupation is how do we force cinema to respond to the existential, political, and spiritual dimensions of who we are as a people.

  

  Arthur Jafa
  • Music
  • Cinema
  • Mantra

• I would assign every lie a color: yellow when they were innocent, pale blue when they sailed over you like the sky, red because I knew they drew blood. And then there was the black lie. That's the worst of all. A black lie was when I told you the truth.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Lying
  • Innocent
  • Worst

• I've had days when I go in my bedroom for 24 hours at a time. I call them my Cilla Black days, and they're literally black days. It's like the old Boomtown Rats song 'I Don't Like Mondays.' You just want to shut the whole day down.

  

  Cilla Black
  • Time
  • Song
  • Black

• Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Black

• If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.

  

  Jesse Jackson
  • Black
  • Cancer

• Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this genre for its intensity, extremism and underlying irony: You have to be alive to play it and listen to it.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Enjoy
  • Paint
  • Irony

• Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath.

  

  Eric Reed Boucher
  • Black

• The little black dress is the hardest thing to realize because you must keep it simple.

  

  Hubert de Givenchy
  • Black
  • Simple

• There comes a time when the blankness of the future is just so extreme, it's like such a black wall of nothingness. Not of bad things like a cave full of monsters and so, you're afraid of entering it. It's just nothingness, the void, emptiness and it is just horrible. It's like contemplating a future-less future and so you just want to step out of it. The monstrosity of being alive overwhelms you.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Black
  • Wall
  • Depression

• The biggest surprise for me, without a doubt, was that the first black people who came to the United States weren't the 20 who arrived in Jamestown in 1619. All of us had been taught that. The first African came to Florida in 1513. And the huge shock is we know his name, Juan Garrido, and that he wasn't a slave. He was free!

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • People
  • Doubt
  • Surprise

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