Black Quotes · Page 233

I got to see Black Sabbath, Pantera and Deftones together, I remember that blew my mind completely.

— Maria Brink

I really did not think a thing about playing five black players to start the game; they were our best players and…

— Don Haskins

I felt like it was a courageous show [Black-ish] from the beginning. We are a black family - we're not a family…

— Tracee Ellis Ross

While HBCUs may only represent 3% of the nation's colleges and universities, they produce 50% of black teachers and 80% of black…

— Laphonza Butler

Black patients were treated much later in their disease process. They were often not given the same kind of pain management that…

— Rebecca Skloot

Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.

— Cassandra Wilson

When I was on 'One Life to Live,' I always wanted to delve into my character, Layla, to find out why she…

— Tika Sumpter

I'm not ideological. I think sometimes when people are ideological, the world's a lot easier. Because it falls into either right or…

— John O. Brennan

From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.

— Nina Simone

Vick was one of the first Black quarterbacks that I'd ever seen.

— Darren Waller

I don't feel that America has a black dude right now. I'm that dude.

— Tone Bell

Out of pure spite we pretty much always said the opposite of what the other said, no matter what they said, only…

— Varg Vikernes

In real life, you can't get a job as an executive unless you have the educational background and the opportunity. Now the…

— Dorian Corey

The philosophy of love and peace strangely overlooked who was in possession of the guns. There had been love and peace for…

— Bessie Head

Well, there were definitely elements of my rise in radio that had to do with my being black. But going back as…

— Wendy Williams

Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of…

— Aberjhani

Like us as Black", beg the chess pieces," and you will anyway like us as White

— Isaac Boleslavsky

When I was really young, I was really into Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden and those kinds of bands.

— David Pajo

I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he…

— Bell Hooks

I did a club one night - the speakers were old as hell. My jokes were coming out in black and white.

— J. B. Smoove

Taxi September along Jessore Road Oxcart skeletons drag charcoal load past watery fields thru rain flood ruts Dung cakes on treetrunks, plastic-roof…

— Allen Ginsberg

Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made.

— Jean Dujardin

If the Democrats have their way, African Americans will continue to feel oppressed, despised and handicapped into the indefinite future. All progress…

— Mona Charen

I was a player who was vying to do exactly what everyone else was doing, and I happened to be black.

— Katrina Adams

I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because…

— Melissa Leo

I have already spoken to three US Presidents. They come and go, but politics stay the same at all times. Do you…

— Vladimir Putin

[Apostol Paul's] views were translated as, "Your rule is to be kind to black people; you don't beat them." It's very much…

— John Shelby Spong

I'm a cat; I don't give a damn about anything. I just live life for the moment.

— Lia Payne

I think I'm definitely more open. You know the thing is I wouldn't have said I was closed before, but like, it's…

— Sanaa Lathan

I can't stand black guys. I would never touch one. It's gross?

— Paris Hilton

Alas, passion is conducive to certain other things because when you have too much passion and you have too much work, you…

— Manolo Blahnik

There's something really unique about 'Orphan Black' is that it has a lot of female leads, so it's about a lot of…

— Tatiana Maslany

With the advance of knowledge, therefore, prayer and sacrifice assume the leading place in religious ritual; and magic; which once ranked with…

— James G. Frazer

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

— Morgan Freeman

I walked out on American Gangster: this evil piece of dreck. Defenders of this junk say that these movies give Black actors…

— Ishmael Reed

Here's the thing. We do a movie with a predominantly black cast, and it's put in a category of being a black…

— Kevin Hart

Whoever will be president, if they wish to save America from the Wrath of God and the course that America is on,…

— Louis Farrakhan

We value men more than women... straight love more than gay love... white skin more than black skin... and adults more than…

— Charlize Theron

The beauty of when you watch good television or films is that, yes, you may have a multi-cultural cast but those roles…

— Mekhi Phifer

I feel like a lot of black men 'put on' because of what they see and because of what people tell them…

— Ashton Sanders