Black Quotes · Page 18

The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians,…

— James A. Baldwin

Not only do we have the handsomest voice cast out there, along with the very lovely Black Widow, we also have an…

— Jeph Loeb

I was raised to believe that you had to do things better than white people in order to succeed. The old black…

— Chris Rock

Rachel,” came a raspy voice from the upper level, and both Trent and I turned. It was Quen, wrapped in a blanket…

— Kim Harrison

In a pitch black room, you can affirm "let their be light" or you can light one candle.

— Ken McCarthy

The twilight is long fingers and black hair.

— Allen Tate

I am both black and Latino - there's no need to artificially barricade one from the other.

— Ritchie Torres

Return to Shaoshan I regret the passing, the dying, of the vague dream: my native orchards thirty-two years ago. Yet red banners…

— Mao Zedong

Lily and James only made you Secret-Keeper because I suggested it,” Black hissed, so venomously that Pettigrew took a step backward. “I…

— Anonymous

I had written a tune called 'Shake, Rattle and Roll,' but the white stations refused to play it - they thought it…

— Jesse Stone

If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet.

— Brad Holland

There are huge divorces and divides and chasms in black America between the have-gots and the have-nots, between the monied and the…

— Michael Eric Dyson

There are criminals who are drug users, but most addicts are criminals only by virtue of prohibition or from resorting to crime…

— Danny Sugerman

Well, my piano's really beautiful. I actually have two pianos. I have a Yamaha upright from the '60s that's blond, wood, and…

— Zooey Deschanel

It is wonderful how much depends upon the relations of black and white A black and white, if properly balanced, suggests colour.

— Winslow Homer

A straight dark-green Manchu gown, with black trimmings, is my favorite. For it just about takes off those fifteen pounds I don't…

— Buwei Yang Chao

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.

— William Irwin Thompson

The national conversation around white entitlement, around institutionalized racism, the Black Lives Matter movement, I think, came about in large part because…

— Cathy O'Neil

The average Liberian, it turns out, does not share the same assumptions as the average black Methodist minister from Chicago.

— Tucker Carlson

I've always said as a political scientist that "culture" is what we use when we can't explain things. I think it's more…

— Condoleezza Rice

These events are swirling around them. In the white community, people felt like they had no control over their neighborhoods, their destiny.…

— Sara Paretsky

I was in South Africa, and Joe [Wright] asked the same exact question that you just asked: "Have you ever seen an…

— Bryce Dallas Howard

The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses.

— Bobby Seale

I just wish all these young black kids would realize how significant it is to stop acting a fool out there, killing…

— Charles Barkley

I like black for clothes, small items, and jewelry. It's a color that can't be violated by any other colors. A color…

— Yana Toboso