Black Quotes
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There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III
Bad Meets Evil'
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This day's black fate on more days doth depend; This but begins the woe, others must end.
William Shakespeare
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Black history isn't a separate history. This is all of our history, this is American history, and we need to understand that. It has such an impact on kids and their values and how they view black people.
Karyn Parsons
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My school was 90 percent white, but 90 percent of the kids I played with were black. So I got the best of both worlds. I think that is where my comedy developed.
Will Smith
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Even if it's a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.
Gary Owen
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Like brown rice, black rice is unmilled, and it is the dark outer husk that makes it so nutty and chewy. It's also why it takes longer to cook than many other rices.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now.
Virginia Woolf
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I loved Alessandra Torre's 'Black Lies.'
Zara Cox
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My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.
Mahershala Ali
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My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.
Rachel Zoe
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If you're black, if you're gay, if you're Latin - we're all the same. We're all the same, and we all want the same: We want to be happy.
Kate del Castillo
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Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was the black man: those four million souls whom the nation had used and degraded, and on whom the South had built an oligarchy similar to the colonial imperialism of today, erected on cheap colored labor and raising raw material for manufacture.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldn't stand seeing them hurt like this.
Quincy Jones
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From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive powers of government from the consent of the governed. Within sound of the voices of those who said this lived more than half a million black slaves, forming nearly one-fifth of the population of a new nation.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Needless to say, I would have loved to have been a black belt instead of actually just wearing one to hold up my pants!
Octavia Spencer
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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Just wearing all black comes from Johnny Cash. I'm on the road so much that if I wear all black, my clothes never get dirty. You can't tell if I've worn the same shirt twice.
G-Eazy
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Hey, you know something people? I'm not black,But there's a whole lots a times I wish I could say I'm not white.
Frank Zappa
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There's something really unique about 'Orphan Black' is that it has a lot of female leads, so it's about a lot of women's stories, but it's not women's stories in terms of trying to find a guy or keep a guy; it's about entirely other things.
Tatiana Maslany
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A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
King James I
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Without water, our planet would be one of the billions of lifeless rocks floating endlessly in the vastness of the inky-black void.
Fabien Cousteau
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I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
Gary Johnson
