Black Quotes · Page 126

I remember as a young man seeing these bigger-than-life, strong images of black manhood in the form of Jim Brown and Fred…

— Michael Jai White

WE DASH THE BLACK RIVER, ITS flats smooth as stone. Not a ship, not a dinghy, not one cry of white. The…

— James Salter

Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot,…

— Bram Stoker

“Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only…

— Martin Luther King Jr

We [black actors] are more respected in Europe, because in Europe, I'm not a black actor - I'm an action star. In…

— Fred Williamson

If you cannot bear the silence and the darkness, do not go there; if you dislike black night and yawning chasms, never…

— Loren Eiseley

Usually we look at it like, "Oh, black people couldn't vote in Mississippi because they had to take a literacy test." But…

— Stanley Nelson Jr

There's not one black narrative. There's not one way to be black.

— Yvonne Orji

Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness, and your…

— Toyin Odutola

Shame ain't black, like dirt, like I always thought it was. Shame be the color of a new white uniform your mother…

— Kathryn Stockett

Your shoes have to match your belt. That's rule number one for guys. You can't put the brown shoes with the black…

— Ashton Kutcher

I would say except when I have been attacked the black community has seldom seen fit to even mention the gay aspect.…

— Bayard Rustin

If you're not working on your best idea right now, you're doing it wrong.

— David Heinemeier Hansson

I was a horror fan as a kid, but we didn't have a Black Freddy Krueger or a Black Jason Voorhees.

— Nia DaCosta

There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey.

— Chris Heimerdinger

We really are 15 countries, and it's remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas,…

— Maya Angelou

You know the black bits in bananas? Are they tarantulas eggs?

— Noel Fielding

I hope we get pulled over, he says. I'd like to see how the cop responds to a black man wearing a…

— John Green

Leftist big-government policies have been disastrous for black America just as they were in the countries that most Hispanics emigrated from. But…

— Dennis Prager

There's this scene in "The Night of the Hunter" when the kids are downstairs, and you have the feeling that they're both…

— Marjane Satrapi

I found that the best way to go about [ Black men ] is to produce better men. And I think if…

— Steve Harvey

Big black guys fear air travel almost as much as old white women fear big black guys.

— Dov Davidoff

I'm satisfied it's very black, meaning 'in the black'.

— Robert Conrad

We got no wealthy black people. We got rich people. Shaq is rich. The guy who signs his checks is wealthy.

— Chris Rock

Has he paid his dues? Is he black enough?... John Lewis and I were out there marching and organizing sit-ins back in…

— Jim Clyburn

I have a really simple wardrobe. I wear a low-scoop tee every day with a tux or leather jacket and tux pants…

— Johan Lindeberg

“He wants their sexuality to be an equalizer; he wants to focus on the discrimination they face in common. But Simon can…

— Chloe Benjamin

The wings of Time are black and white, Pied with morning and with night.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you're black in America, race is a factor in your life. Start with that assumption.

— Henry Hampton

Studios always seem to be in basements without natural light and with black everything.

— Peter Gabriel

I write for myself and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage…

— August Wilson

In Europe, populism is sort of a dirty word, but we have this wonderful history of populism in America, including the abolitionist…

— Zephyr Teachout

The coolest thing for me is the experience of floating and not feeling my weight. And hanging by a window just after…

— Kalpana Chawla

My kids are nothing like I remember black kids being when I was a kid.

— Kenya Barris

Young black men are not only being arrested and channeled into the criminal justice system in record numbers, they are also being…

— Henry Giroux

I know that so many of us hoped that, by electing our first black president, we had turned the page on this…

— Hillary Clinton

I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.

— Huey Newton

The east is not for me--the sensuous spiritual voluptuousness, the curious sensitiveness of the naked people, their black, bottomless, hopeless eyes.

— D. H. Lawrence

There is no morality in the mushroom cloud. The black rain of nuclear ashes will fall alike on the just and the…

— Edward Kennedy

Too hard for MTV, not black enough for BET, just let me be...

— Jadakiss