Black Quotes · Page 131

Choices of right or wrong are not presented to you in black and white. If they were, I'm sure most people would…

— Bethany McLean

As a black man, my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races…

— LL Cool J

Once, my little sister was walking down the street in her thick black glasses, and a homeless man muttered, Talk nerdy to…

— Lena Dunham

I make a composition with a white and a black, and make adjustments when the white has become a paper and the…

— Juan Gris

I'm trying to incorporate colour into my life. Until recently, everything in my closet was black, white, grey, navy or olive.

— Jennifer Morrison

I personally feel like black people in America have contributed so much for so long, and haven't always gotten credit for it.

— Andre Holland

The industry looks for white actors and actresses, but it's not the same for black actors. We have to really put the…

— Chadwick Boseman

Black and brown communities are significantly and disproportionately impacted by deficiencies in our criminal justice system.

— J. B. Pritzker

I find it difficult [to believe] that... Christians accuse [Black Muslims] of teaching racial supremacy or... hatred, because their own history and...…

— Malcolm X

I was very dramatic as a kid. I loved to entertain. I was taking my bathing suits and painting them black and…

— Selena Gomez

We could play them through the week, and then the weekend we could play the black joints. I learned to be very…

— Little Milton

What we hope to achieve is a society that doesn't value a white man because he's a white man, but also doesn't…

— Elizabeth Edwards

Some women waited for a night in shining armor. She, apparently, had ended up with a knight in black jeans and leather,…

— Ilona Andrews

I wanted [the book 'There are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé?'] to be colorful. I wanted it to be evocative. I wanted…

— Morgan Parker

We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all…

— Nikki Giovanni

The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, black jack for example, and every time the dealer has the same starting…

— Bobby Fischer

I wanted to pay homage to someone who was such an important literary figure in my life. I think Langston Hughes would…

— Kasi Lemmons

If we [black people] do not show up and support the march towards cinematic equality, the march towards being on a level…

— Terrence Howard

I invented a camera that has an exposure time of one hundred years and the camera works in the simplest possible terms,…

— Jonathon Keats

What is it about wearing a tuxedo or that little black dress, that makes us feel confident, beautiful, splendid, even invincible? We…

— Vera Nazarian

I got into DJ'ing because I started to listen to New York radio a lot. Obviously, I knew the stuff everybody knew,…

— Mark Ronson

I’m sure there’s some self-help cheese-ball book about the gray area, but I’ve been having this conversation with my friends who are…

— Justin Timberlake

The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. They’re operated…

— Barack Obama

I decided to live as an individual and as I grew older, and thought more, and read more and experienced more, my…

— Shelby Steele

That's how it is sometimes--God comes to your window, all bright light and black wings, and you're just too tired to open…

— Dorianne Laux

Most black families have roots, whether Christian, Muslim or other religions, and that journey is unique for each individual.

— Omar Epps

I mean, think of Flint. I mean, think of the lead poisoning of thousands of poor and black children across the United…

— Henry Giroux

I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling…

— Hank Aaron

Did the poet use red to symbolize blood? Anger? Lust? Or is the wheelbarrow simply red because red sounded better than black?

— Jay Asher

Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it.

— Randall Robinson

I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of…

— Tyler Perry

I want to be the voice of the people; black, white, everyday, oppressed people. A person trying to make it and to…

— Common

It's cool that people are latching on and becoming part of The Neighbourhood with us, with the whole black and white movement.

— Jesse Rutherford

When you say 'Black is beautiful' you are saying, 'Man you are okay as you are, begin to look upon yourself as…

— Steven Biko

When, like an Emir of tyrannic power, Sirius appears, and on the horizon black Bids countless stars pursue their mighty track.

— Victor Hugo

There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in…

— August Wilson

You know, some people get really tense when you talk about racism or you talk about being Black and it shouldn't be…

— Judi Love

I was a sullen kid who smoked cigarettes and wore black every day, and I went to a school that was lacrosse…

— Peter Dinklage

I can go all over the world with just three outfits: a blue blazer and gray flannel pants, a gray flannel suit,…

— Pierre Cardin

Tupac the son of the Black Panther, and Tupac the rider. Those are the two people inside of me. I was raised…

— Tupac Shakur