Black Quotes

• In some ways, I value specificity. I think that there's power in, once you know who your fan base is, being able to speak to them. I hope to cultivate a fan base of black girls and black people and people of color, women of color, queer people, people who are are marginalized in general.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • People
  • Women
  • Power

• I love that as a black person I've experienced not being a minority. I think that's helped me to combat the minority mentality people can have here, which can stop them scaling the heights.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • People
  • Black
  • Stop

• I have a massive phobia for schedules and calendars. I need people to tell me where I need to be. I can't bear to see it in black and white. I think it's a fear of being pinned down.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Fear
  • Black-and-white

• The Democrats take the black vote for granted so they don't have to appeal to anything... I haven't heard Mrs. Clinton talk about the urban pathologies in the American ghetto that are the result of progressive urban policies - failed policies.

  

  David A. Clarke, Jr.
  • American
  • Black
  • Ghetto

• I'd been on a road trip right out of college, with a buddy of mine. It was uneventful. We didn't get laid. Although one time it was about 800 degrees and we were in Texas. We had shorts on and nothing else and somehow a motorcycle cop pulls up beside me and says, 'Come on, get on it, get on, go, go, go!' So I speeded up and it turns out we're in a huge state funeral. There are about 40 black Cadillacs in a row and then a green van called Mr Greenjeans, with two guys with no clothes in it.

  

  John Travolta
  • Up
  • Time
  • Guy

• I wasn't really conscious about 'The 39 Clues' movie when I wrote 'The Black Circle.'

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Movie
  • Conscious
  • Circle

• I have lots of hopes for black actors in general, whether they be on TV or on stage or in movies, and that is that we move beyond the tokenism of what it means to be black in a particular set of circumstances.

  

  Joe Morton
  • Black

• The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador attain liberty, and inspired our forefathers to shed their blood for the United States' independence, cannot die. Today, this spirit of solidarity must and will empower all of us to rebuild Haiti.

  

  Jean-Bertrand Aristide
  • Today
  • Die
  • Independent

• I never felt that I was supposed to be white. Or black, either. My parents just wanted to let me be who I needed to be.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • Parents
  • Black

• I'm supposed to be all re-injected with yes-we-can fever after the big health care speech, and it was a great speech - when Black Elvis gets jiggy with his teleprompter, there is none better. But here's the thing: Muhammad Ali also had a way with words, but it helped enormously that he could also punch guys in the face.

  

  Bill Maher
  • Great
  • Words
  • Health

• There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black writer's book that everybody is going to be Black.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Director

• To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

  

  Jean Baudrillard
  • World
  • Future
  • Light

• We need the cops, especially in the black community.

  

  Charles Barkley
  • Black
  • Community

• In the same way that Occupy Wall Street forever elevated that concept of income inequality, the Black Lives Matter protesters have elevated the idea of inequity in policing as it relates to minority communities.

  

  Charles M. Blow
  • Black
  • Forever
  • Wall

• Both European and American historians have done away with any conceptual limits on what in the past needs and deserves investigating. The result, among other things, has been a flood of works on gender history, black history, and ethnic history of all kinds.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Done
  • American
  • History

• The black experience isn't exclusively slavery/civil rights/Obama.

  

  Margot Lee Shetterly
  • Experience
  • Black
  • Slavery

• A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Grandpa on. But novelists, damn us, still need true natures - so we can give them to our protagonists. And so readers can vaguely predict how they'll behave when we trap them in 'situations' that they can't IM their way out of.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • True
  • Happy
  • Nature

• We don't all have to take the same coordinates to get to the same destination. Being a young African American female artist, I want to open doors for young black girls.

  

  Janelle Monae
  • American
  • Black

• I went to Wellesley College, and it was really hard for me to get a job after I graduated. I would go into places where I would not see any black people at all in Boston - like, zero. And then in publishing in New York City, it was pretty much the same. I knew that it wasn't about the value of my work.

  

  Chirlane McCray
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• When I look into the crowd, I see young and old, black and white - it's amazing that I'm able to connect with so many different kinds of people.

  

  Patti LaBelle
  • People
  • Different
  • Amazing

• The prison industrial system, things like that are cleverly put in place to attempt to marginalize a certain group of people - and it's not only black, it's replete across the American society.

  

  Keith Stanfield
  • People
  • American
  • Society

• I think that many black people thought this would be a wonderful and extraordinary thing, for a black family to occupy the White House. Not only black people; a lot of white people thought that, too, but particularly black people.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • People
  • Family
  • House

• If I was the Jackie Robinson of golf, I sure didn't do a very good job of it. Jackie was followed by hundreds of great black ballplayers who have transformed their sport... But there are hardly any black kids coming up through the ranks of golf today.

  

  Charlie Sifford
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• Having a separate bathroom for the black domestic was just the way things were done. It had faded out in new homes by the time the '70s and '80s rolled up.

  

  Kathryn Stockett
  • Up
  • Time
  • Done

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