Black Quotes

I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.

Halle Berry
- Life
- Mother
- Woman
I grew up on what everybody called a plantation - but believe me, it wasn't a plantation. It was just an old farm. I grew up with a lot of black people working in the fields, and it was during the Depression between 1930 and the war, so we were all poor - black and white.

Sam Phillips
- People
- Up
- Believe

the large black slugs ... come out at dusk. Enormous slugs. As big as crocodiles. So huge we need a gun to shoot them. And by the end of the summer, if they go on growing, we shall have to go out in pairs together for protection.

Nan Fairbrother
- Together
- Growing
- Summer
Something like 'Rust and Bone' would be a dream. Very pared down. 'Orphan Black' is such a challenge. I just need something that isn't as full-on intense as that.

Tatiana Maslany
- Dream
- Black
- Challenge
My mother worked in the white world, but I lived almost exclusively in a black world. I don't think I had ever seen a white teacher until I got to high school.

Edward P. Jones
- World
- School
- Mother
Soul is a colourless thing. I don't think you have to be a black person to be automatically soulful. I respect Justin Bieber and Justin Timberlake; they do what they do. For me, my philosophy has always been 'contribution before competition.'

Gerald Maxwell Rivera
- Soul
- Respect
- Competition
Any voting group has an interest that they want from politicians. That's why politicians have to talk to different people. But to reduce the black interest to free stuff is so insulting. It just makes me apoplectic.

Larry Wilmore
- People
- Different
- Why
My entertainment was going to the local dollar movie theatre on the weekend, where I watched old black and white movies. If you wanted current movies, you had to drive to the big city.

L'Wren Scott
- Movie
- City
- Theatre