Black Quotes · Page 235

I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa,…

— Maya Angelou

I think everybody don't know what color I am. It's like, "He's not black enough. He's not white enough. He's got a…

— Bruno Mars

It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over…

— Erykah Badu

I'm trying to be what I want to see more of: Black women onscreen.

— KiKi Layne

Just call me black, if you want to call me anything.

— Whoopi Goldberg

I don't have a community like a black community to belong to [with] a musical platform that's been built for years and…

— M.I.A

When that devil's bullet lodged itself inside the body of Martin Luther King, he had already begun an astonishing mobilization of poor,…

— June Jordan

If (Black) is going for victory, he is practically forced to allow his opponent to get some kind of well-known positional advantage.

— Mikhail Tal

I didn’t look to the shore much after this first long and memorable glimpse. I looked up at Heaven and her court…

— Anne Rice

There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on…

— Anonymous

There's now, for the first time, a huge gulf between the artefacts of our everyday life and what even a single expert,…

— Martin Rees

I think I look better in darker clothes. And maybe the fact that I wear black so much makes me more aware…

— Joan Jett

The question that I started off with was, I thought, very simple. It was just 'Is there a massive black hole at…

— Andrea M. Ghez

I may sound a little black, but I'm really pretty well adjusted.

— Hunter S. Thompson

I would wear pink because I knew my future was anything but rosy. I would accessorize myself to the hilt, and I…

— Karen Marie Moning

I aim my music at the hip black hip-hop audience.

— Heavy D

Black girls are punished, many times violently so, for questioning and challenging authority, which is something that is often celebrated and encouraged…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

When I was young, I loved black men.

— Jessica Alba

There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.

— Binyavanga Wainaina

I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be…

— Florence Welch

When I am White, I win because I am White. When I am Black, I win because I am Bogolyubov.

— Efim Bogoljubov

I would say the thing you can still see in Black Mirror is that I was probably traumatized by the specter of…

— Charlie Brooker

As a strong and proud and intelligent Black man I have no problem expressing my respect for and adoration of the Black…

— Runoko Rashidi

When I first started doing comedy, there was no such thing as a room that had black people and white people in…

— Trevor Noah

I do not admit... that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America, or the black people of…

— Winston Churchill

I like my coffee like I like my women - Black and Strong.

— Paul Howell

It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after…

— Gary Oldman

I was always the only black in the movie theater, the only black in class, the only black in the library, the…

— Concha Buika

There was no violence, no speed. It moved to the rhythm of an elder dance, putting all the rituals of the world…

— Tanith Lee

I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay. I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing…

— Jason Collins

I am a writer, a professional journalist with serious credentials in Crime, Craziness, and Politics. I have mingled with dangerous criminals and…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Maybe when the President tells you that you should be afraid of Mexicans or Muslims or Jews or black people or gay…

— Reza Aslan

Not a state within a state, but the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is, is saying that the black man, since the white man,…

— Malcolm X

We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to…

— Christopher Lasch

My son don't have to say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud. He don't have to be called those crazy names.

— James Brown

The music of the westerner comes from Africa, whether they like it or not. The majority of the instruments of the music,…

— Angelique Kidjo

Everything went pitch-black and the next thing I knew, I was being hurled headfirst out of the room!” “And you didn’t see…

— Anonymous

That first company I started made a lot of money for the venture capitalists - nearly $30 million - but next to…

— Michael Arrington

I think that Malcolm X was envisioning, even while he was in the Nation of Islam, a black nationalist progressive strategy toward…

— Manning Marable

There is only room for a certain amount of black actresses in this industry. I don't want to fall into the zone…

— Selita Ebanks