Black Quotes · Page 105

There's no denying that the way horror has been packaged in the past has done it no favours. Lurid black covers adorned…

— Tim Lebbon

As a black man in America, I have lived the truth.

— Ron Stallworth

We used to say in the black community that if somebody else caught a cold, we caught pneumonia.

— Gwen Ifill

In 2013, there were 6,261 black homicide victims in the US — almost all killed by black civilians.

— John Podhoretz

Do you know out of what the German Empire arose? Out of dreams, songs, fantasies and black-red-gold ribbons? Bismarck merely shook the…

— Theodor Herzl

Before many black singers were still labouring under that problem of God; it was often 'God will save us'. But right through…

— John Lennon

There is no such thing as a black middle class.

— H. Rap Brown

Some visualize the Pistols era in shades of black and white. It wasn't. Actually, the colors I envision are neon or army…

— John Lydon

The glow dies down, and she's standing at the end of my bed--the one who's been following me around leaving feather messages.…

— Libba Bray

Whiteness is the color of death, you know, not black. Wetness is life, the breeder and shaper of life. In the beginning…

— Jim Carroll

I'm very into film and strengthening what it means to be a rapper and to be a black dude from Chicago.

— Chance The Rapper

To fully understand the black immigrant experience in the U.S., we must understand it not in contrast to the African-American experience, but…

— Opal Tometi

Hitler had a lot of Jews high up in the hierarchy of the Third Reich. Color does not necessarily denote quality, content…

— Harry Belafonte

I’ve discovered a new affliction; it’s called Orphan Black Eyes. When people ask me what I’m working on and I tell them…

— Michelle Forbes

Forest who is in love with fire will wear black wedding gown in her wedding!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I had forgotten that Jess felt about long words the way that racists feel about black people: she hated them, and wanted…

— Nick Hornby

I'm not a witch, I just like Halloween, and I thought that blondes look skinnier in black.

— Stevie Nicks

“Ethiopians imagine their gods as black and snub-nosed; Thracians blue-eyed and red-haired. But if horses or lions had hands, or could draw…

— Anonymous

I love everything black, because black is cool. When something crosses over, people are like, "Oh, this is a crossover." First of…

— Brett Ratner

Loving God is like my being black. I just am. [No one says] 'You know what? I'm gonna be blacker today!' It's…

— Angela Bassett

There haven't been enough profound things written about what being black means and what a black character is. Nobody knows.

— James Earl Jones

Kids that I went to school with didn't know how to interact with black people like that. There were only, like, three…

— Big Sean

It is with great disappointment and regret that after having the privilege of writing and performing the music of The Black Crowes…

— Rich Robinson

Most of the things that are asked of me as a representative black person, would suggest never are we equal Americans.

— Alex Haley

We always see the Holocaust in terms of black-and-white images, barking Germans, cowering Jews. We know very well-known fixed places like Auschwitz,…

— Yann Martel

Maybe its a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I just wanted to…

— Judith Jamison

Progressive policies are harming the Black community.

— Deneen Borelli

He [Cassius Clay] became a Black Muslim, which is a pseudo-religion for unbright neurotics who feel the need to hate all white…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

You've go to have a heart to be in the WWE, but its got to be black. Just like me.

— John Layfield

The less I talk about being black, the better.

— Idris Elba

Rise above the way society is going to see you and society is going to see you at the absolutely bottom of…

— Audra McDonald

There's something great about terrible westerns. They look like gay dancers and bad, overwrought dialogue and overacting, black and white sped up…

— Alec Sulkin

I love the feel of good quality Italian black lace that feels delicate and really feminine.

— Nicole Trunfio

We don't walk around wearing candy stuff all day or colorful stuff. It's like, I walk around wearing black.

— Bebe Rexha

I'm kind of a hokey-jokey, campy idiot in black lipstick, but when it comes to my music, I take it very seriously.

— Sharon Needles

Look, the Black community is diverse. We have generational divides. We have class divides. We have parts of the Black community that…

— Maya Wiley

Black lives, of course, matter. I spent 50 years of my life fighting for civil rights and for dignity, but if you…

— Bernie Sanders

I'm 13 to 17, 18 years old; I thought that's what the world was like. It never occurred to me that this…

— Marcus Miller

The Zionists indeed learnt well from the Nazis. So well that it seems that their morally repugnant treatment of the Palestinians, and…

— Norman Finkelstein

I'm not really a political-type person, meaning that I don't really make great stands or whatever, but if you ask me a…

— Dolly Parton