Black Quotes · Page 36

I don’t like water. I drink Diet Coke. Nor do I smoke, or drink alcohol or even sip a café. I don’t…

— Emmanuelle Alt

When I was younger, I was very princessy. I always wanted to be blond-haired and blue-eyed. This was before Mulan, so I…

— Grace Lin

Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.

— Etty Hillesum

I always think I should get on it if I want to have kids. Because once you hit thirty it can be…

— Sarah

I always wear beige, black or white. For one thing I look good in them. For another, when I'm beside a star…

— Edith Head

[O]ur own bodies are changing every second. Yet we take the body to be our Self; and, speaking in terms of it,…

— Anonymous

The first black president will be a politician who is black.

— Douglas Wilder

As the old saying goes, 'money is power' and the more money the government takes, the more power it has over individuals.

— Angela McGlowan

Away! Away! The spell of arms and voices: the white arms of roads, their promise of close embraces and the black arms…

— James Joyce

Everybody was wearing rhinestones, all those sparkly clothes, and cowboy boots. I decided to wear a black shirt and pants and see…

— Johnny Cash

I judge people based solely on the quality of bands on the black concert t-shirts they wear.

— Lou Brutus

I never saw a consistent through-line of employment for black actresses. I was like, 'How are they supporting themselves?'

— Khandi Alexander

I have a really basic uniform: in winter, black tights and any old dress that I can throw on. In summer, high-waisted…

— Claudia Schiffer

I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.'

— Dick Gregory

I have read a great deal of economic theory for over 50 years now, but have found only one economic "law" to…

— Robert Anton Wilson

The laughter in his deep-set black eyes, the feverish heat of his big hand around mine, the flash of his white teeth…

— Stephenie Meyer

There are a plethora of ways of being black, just like there's many ways to being white.

— Justin Simien

People think, 'Oh, he's a black quarterback, he must be dual-threat.' People throw around that word all the time. It's lazy.

— Deshaun Watson

If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be…

— Dexter Gordon

I think, as a working mom, I have to dress myself differently now. I used to wear very kind of precious clothes.…

— Rachel Zoe

Imagine a crime series in which, every week, there is a white suspect and a black suspect. And every week, lo and…

— Richard Dawkins

I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a…

— Ralph Abernathy

Despite popular conviction, a writer needn't wear black, be unshaven, sickly and parade around New York's East Village spewing aphorisms and scaring…

— Noah Lukeman

The issue of redistribution of resources and wealth needs to resolved systemically, but in the meantime but there are individual spots you…

— Michael Eric Dyson