Black Quotes · Page 409

I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.

— Michael Jordan

The night is black, as black as night.

— Melissa Etheridge

If you awaken from this illusion, and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death - or shall…

— Alan Watts

It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest…

— Spike Lee

You don't have a baby based on that publicity madness. People don't live like that. Especially black people who were raised in…

— Whitney Houston

I'd like somebody to breed a male, genus homo, who could go and fetch a 12" x 8" black suède purse lying…

— Margaret Halsey

These days everyone was insisting on their identity, coming out as a man, woman, gay, black, Jew - brandishing whichever features they…

— Hanif Kureishi

I was the first American citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having…

— Shirley Chisholm

I hated [Robert Mugabe]. He's one of the worst human beings I've ever met. He treated black and white with equal contempt.…

— Bob Hawke

But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people.

— Charles Barkley

Black people are more likely to be incarcerated than white people. That's just a fact and it's regrettable and it's got to…

— Peter Hedges

Media mystifications should not obfuscate a simple, perceivable fact; Black teenage girls do not create poverty by having babies. Quite the contrary,…

— Angela Davis

“She wore black, the color of nuns and witches, the color of the loneliest corners of outer space, where gravity prevents all…

— Lili Wright

I know what's good for me. I can't play black or gray. I can't be a villain or anything close to one.…

— Alan Ladd

My parents lived in a poor rural community on the Eastern Shore, and schools were still segregated. And I remember when lawyers…

— Bryan Stevenson

Black was bestlooking. ... Ebony was the best wood, the hardest wood; it was black. Virginia ham was the best ham. It…

— Ann Petry

Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need distraction from anxious, black thoughts.

— Brigitte Bardot

Black is not sad. Bright colours are what depress me. They're so... empty. Black is poetic. How do you imagine a poet?…

— Ann Demeulemeester

The world has white people and black people in it. Even in Harlem.

— Angela Bassett

What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.

— Ruth Bernhard

And all was black and still, and black and cold, and black and dead, and black.

— Anonymous

Hollywood has had a very limited way of telling stories about black people.

— KiKi Layne

I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.

— Bob Marley

When I photographed Marilyn Monroe, I mixed up my cameras - one had black-and-white film, the other color. I took many pictures.…

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not a manila…

— Jack Newfield