Black Quotes

• I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal. Touch my skin to keep me whole. If only you'd come back to me. To feel you at my side, wouldn't need no Mojo Pin to keep me satisfied.

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • Black
  • Hair

• The question that I started off with was, I thought, very simple. It was just 'Is there a massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way?' But one of the things I love about science is that you always end up with new questions.

  

  Andrea M. Ghez
  • Up
  • Science
  • Question

• Most people feel weird about white heels, but I love them and wear them with everything, especially when I need to mix up an all-black outfit.

  

  Katherine Schwarzenegger
  • People
  • Up
  • Weird

• 'Black Swan' was absolutely unbelievable. I had always dreamed of working with Darren Aronofsky, and Natalie Portman, Winona Ryder, Barbara Hershey, Mila Kunis and Vincent Cassel. The entire cast was really a dream cast, and it was amazing to work with these powerhouse women that I've just admired for so many years.

  

  Ksenia Solo
  • Work
  • Women
  • Dream

• You can muck around with different guitars for certain bits, but you have to have your own sound. That's your benchmark, that's your sound. I also play a Black Beauty. It sounds amazing.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Different
  • Amazing
  • Beauty

• So how was Christmas for you guys? Did you all get lots of nice black t-shirts?

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Christmas
  • Get
  • Lots

• For longer than I've been involved in the political process, the Republican establishment has claimed to want to provide an alternative for the black community, yet party elite refuse to show up for the game.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Up
  • Game
  • Political

• Black films and television are growing and getting the recognition... and the opportunities.

  

  Demetrius Shipp, Jr.
  • Black
  • Growing

• People sometimes think I take a white canvas and paint a black sign on it,but this is not true.I paint the white as well as the black and the white is just as important.

  

  Franz Kline
  • People
  • Important
  • True

• The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.

  

  Malcolm X
  • God
  • Government
  • Revolution

• I don't look at things in black and white. There are big gray areas. There's a lot of slippage.

  

  Mark Bradford
  • Black

• It was the Michael Jordan/Nike phenomenon that really let people see that athletes were OK, and black athletes were OK. Defying a previous wisdom - not only that black athletes wouldn't sell in white America, but that the NBA as a predominantly black sport could not sell in white America.

  

  David Stern
  • People
  • America
  • Wisdom

• Nothing is all good or all bad, nothing is black or white, everything is just messy and human and difficult.

  

  Bellamy Young
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Human

• My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.

  

  Edward G. Robinson
  • Trying
  • Friends
  • Father

• It is utterly exhausting being Black in America - physically, mentally, and emotionally. While many minority groups and women feel similar stress, there is no respite or escape from your badge of color.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Women
  • America
  • Color

• There's a few reasons you don't see black people at my shows. One is because, obviously, black people have slower internet connections. I mean, that would be my guess. I don't know.

  

  Dave Chappelle
  • People
  • Black

• The roles that I feel I get, or handed to me, or whatever, are not that interesting. I don't think it's a problem that's specific to black women. I think it's a problem that's specific to movie-making in America.

  

  Aunjanue Ellis
  • Women
  • America
  • Movie

• The action comedy 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl' raises one of the most overlooked and important cinematic questions of our time: Can a movie maintain the dramatic integrity of a theme park ride?

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Time
  • Important
  • Movie

• The black man should seek to be, and he should be encouraged to be, the best possible black man and not the best possible imitation of a white man.

  

  Warren G. Harding
  • Black

• It's very hard to be black in this country and hate America. It's really hard to live like that. I would actually argue it's impossible to fully see yourself.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Live
  • Country
  • America

• We've come a long way from the days of Jim Crow, and yes, we elected a black president, but racism lives.

  

  Bob Beckel
  • Long
  • Black
  • Racism

• I really feel all my adult life has been spent in that little black box. If a wonderful part on TV came along I would do it. But I don't want to do a recurring role. It would just be my luck that the thing would be successful. I'm old enough now and also secure enough financially that I really only want to do what I want to do.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Life
  • Successful
  • Luck

• I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Long
  • Black
  • Style

• I knew what I was getting into when I chose golf. Hell, I knew I'd never get rich and famous. All the discrimination, the not being able to play where I deserved and wanted to play - in the end, I didn't give a damn. I was made for a tough life because I'm a tough man. And in the end, I won: I got a lot of black people playing golf.

  

  Charlie Sifford
  • People
  • Life
  • Play

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