Black Quotes
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When I think about women of color and their place politically in the world and culture... they've had two layers of just garbage to overcome. To me, a black woman is a woman-woman.
Katherine Ryan
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I want to burn as a beacon of possibility. I don't want nobody to misconstrue the commercial success I've had as anything other than an example of what black music is capable of. And what it's capable of is being more than just black. I'm not black or white anymore. I'm Cee Lo Green.
CeeLo Green
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When the Black Camel comes for me, I'm not going to go kicking and screaming - I am, however, going to try to talk my way out of it. "No, no, you want the other Walter Slovotsky.
Joel Rosenberg
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'Modern Warfare,' 'Black Ops,' these are all the next level of video games. The people are more detailed, the fighting is more exact, and I can't speak for every gamer out there, but I know when I play, I feel like I'm actually in the game. It's that intense.
Kevin Garnett
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In the early days, you would get skinheads, the Eagles and Black Sabbath playing the same show.
Ozzy Osbourne
Black Sabbath
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When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers.
Peter Coyote
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What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the way you dress? Or is it the forgiving of certain things? What is black enough?
Douglas Wilder
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I couldn't wait to be, you know, a Black Panther. Of course they wouldn't let me join.
David Alan Grier
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I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.
Chris Rock
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I think the truth is black-and-white.
Nancy Grace
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Typically, there's this perspective among writers - and black writers: there's this idea that there is one person - and maybe beyond writers - among blacks, there is always one person who everyone should go to learn about all things black.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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My listening changed when I heard music from Stax, Atlantic, Motown because by that age I thought anything that my parents listened to must be square. So I had to find my own rock n' roll, as it were, and I found it in black soul music.
Robert Palmer
