Black Quotes

Paule Marshall does not let the black women in her fiction lose. While they lose friends, lovers, husbands, homes, or jobs, they always find themselves.

Darryl Pinckney
- Women
- Friends
- Black
I've got a Ferrari 430. It's black. I don't know what it cost but it wasn't cheap. I bought it because I was being a boy. It's fast and looks good.

Jermain Defoe
- Good
- Black
- Boy

When you grow up in New Orleans, like, the only way to be an artist is to be a 55-year-old black musician. That's basically what we wanted to be. If you had asked me very truthfully what I wanted to be when I was 16, the answer would've been, 'I want to be a 55-year-old black musician.'

Jay Duplass
- Up
- Black
I am pretty standard, the way I dress, but matching the belt to the shoe - you know, brown belt, brown shoe, black belt black shoe - that's completely out of the window! I had no idea.

Mark Consuelos
- Pretty
- Black
I couldn't wait to be, you know, a Black Panther. Of course they wouldn't let me join.

David Alan Grier
- Black
You can never have enough reinforcements, resources for black women to thrive in the world. The topic has been addressed a million times before, but it will never end because what we're up against keeps morphing, and we have to figure out how to beat it.

Kelela Mizanekristos
- Up
- World
- Women
The fact that there aren't an abundance of African-American males that are getting lead roles [and] that are getting roles that have prominence on the big screen. [It's] the same thing from behind the camera; maybe even worse. Coming up, when you're black and you want to direct somebody says, "Oh, you're Spike Lee" or "You're John Singleton."

Michael B. Jordan
- Black
- Direct
- Abundance
It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan.

Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
- Black
- Violence
- Plan