Black Quotes · Page 14

I like Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Common. But I like the underground stuff like Young Jeezy, Black Rob and Shine. I also…

— Vanilla Ice

A vast black sleep falls over my life sleep, all hope sleep, all desire.

— Anonymous

I wear black all the time.

— Ivana Trump

I consider myself lucky that Sheila Johnson, the cofounder of Black Entertainment Television, didn't choose to rest on her very impressive business…

— Gayle King

'To Kill a Mockingbird' is really two stories. One is a coming-of-age tale told from the point of view of Scout Finch,…

— Charles J. Shields

After Nicholas hung up the phone, he watched his mother carry buckets and garden tools across the couch grass toward a bed…

— Stephen M. Irwin

Well it's not that I HATE them, but honestly if I saw two homeless people begging for money, one white and one…

— Zach Braff

The mass incarceration of poor people of color, particularly black men, has emerged as a new caste system, one specifically designed to…

— Michelle Alexander

People are just afraid of things too much … Sure, evil exists, extremism exists. Somebody could commit a hate crime and hurt…

— Frank Ocean

For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.

— Linda Chavez

Black Sabbath has always been noncompliant.

— Bill Ward

I always want black girls to feel confident in who they are, and in their skin.

— Bree Runway

I was the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana in 1960.

— Ruby Bridges

You are — truly your father’s son, Harry. . . .

— Anonymous

Enclosure, upon its completion, was the record which represented the achievement of all the musical goals I had been aiming at for…

— John Frusciante

Having a white parent undoubtedly makes for a different childhood experience than having two black parents.

— Melissa Harris-Perry

Republicans are just rich, old, white people - that's all they are. You ever see the Republican National Convention? All white people…

— Andy Kindler

The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.

— Dorothy Parker

Listen to these words of [apostle] Paul: "We war not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, and the rulers…

— Louis Farrakhan

I dont think being black has held me back at all. Being black makes you strong.

— Anita Baker

Black people playing tennis, next white people will be tap dancing!

— Will Smith

I like making black and white films in natural surroundings, but I much prefer shooting a color film inside a studio where…

— Claude Chabrol

It's easy to whip up resentment against anything that smacks with authority. Nobody ever organizes over pan handlers. So even if a…

— Greg Gutfeld

Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy.

— Gerda Lerner

I am wearing a gray shirt, blue jeans, black shoes--new clothes, but beneath them, my Dauntless tattoos. It is impossible to erase…

— Veronica Roth