Black Quotes
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I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.
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One must learn how to be black in America.
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I generally don't think most situations can be labeled as black or white.
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Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind. Those who accept it are poor; those who struggle are middle class.
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Black Poetry is not for Black People...it is for everybody
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What I find astounding is that we've had a president who is black in office for the past eight years, who gets most of his funding from the liberal elite in Hollywood. Yet, there are not very many roles for people of color. How can that be? And why is it just now being addressed?
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When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel in a black leather catsuit.
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In many ways for black actors there's been two leading guys: It's Will Smith vs. Denzel [Washington].
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We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam.
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"I could give you my word as a Spaniard," Inigo said. "No good," the man in black replied. "I've known too many Spaniards."
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With Rock Band, you can play along to Black Sabbath or Nirvana and possibly find new ways of appreciating their artistry by being allowed to perform parallel to it. Rock Band puts you inside the guts of a song.
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When I was younger I always had a dark navy, black tie and everybody would look at me like it was odd, but now it is de rigueur. I'm sure it's my input.
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I sort of feel like that's the most revolutionary thing we can do with our narrative for me as Black people is to show that we are just like you.
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The overhead lights reflect in the glass countertop and mingle in the gray and black of the gloves, resulting in a mother-of-pearl swirl that sometimes sends Mirabelle into a shallow hypnotic dream.
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If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o’-the-wisps of the imagination.
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It's not impossible for a woman - a Black woman - to become President.
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A life is black, whiten it as you will.
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I went to an historically black college where we're always told that there's limitation. And so I'm happy to represent for black colleges.
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We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box.
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At least they people showed the world we could elect a black president.
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America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system.
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At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.
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I have the strangest time to get cast in anything. 'Ghost' was the same thing. Six months I had to wait for them to decide they had seen everybody possible. Why not? What limits me? I'm black? Oh, am I black?
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There is not a history of black intellectuals being allied with dominant forces to hold white people in social and cultural subordination for a few centuries. Second, the "our" of black folk has always been far more inclusive that the "our" of white folk. For instance, there would have hardly been a need for "black" churches if "white" churches had meant their "our" for everybody - and not just white folk. But "our" black churches have always been open to all who would join. The same with white society at every level.
