Black Quotes · Page 419

I had seen Orange Is The New Black show on Netflix and the first thing that came to my mind was, "Why…

— Lori Petty

We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in…

— Nikki Giovanni

I'm the son of a Black man who was born in the segregated South.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

By that point, I was about 12, 13 years old. I was this young black kid into rock music, which was kind…

— Michael Kiwanuka

Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man.

— Peter Abrahams

Television had a black president long before Barack Obama.

— Rocky Carroll

Because only in America, people trample others for sales exactly one day after being thankful for what they already have.

— Anonymous

I wasn't cocky, just confident; I went to an all black school, a white kid.

— Shia LaBeouf

How many of the original songs survive intact from the slave cabins? Probably not many in their original form. Time has transformed…

— Kathleen Battle

Black is a colour of power and strength.

— Hayden Fry

Did Rahm Emmanuel serve President Barack] Obama or did he serve himself as he prepared to run for Mayor of Chicago? I…

— Julianne Malveaux

It is not my fault that my parents own the world's largest collection of black Santas.

— John Green

In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night…

— William Shakespeare

I went to Catholic school my entire life. Elementary school was probably my worst time - those are the years when you're…

— Kevin michael

I wear black for those who never read or listen to the words that Jesus said, about the road to happiness, through…

— Johnny Cash

When I went to live in South Africa, I immediately began to understand what went wrong. Because here was a place supposed…

— Binyavanga Wainaina

I don't get back as much as I'd like to, so I don't have a lot of close ties [Pittsburgh], but I'll…

— Anthony Jeselnik

You rarely see a musical being told about the life of a black woman.

— LaChanze

I was a lost child. I wasn't accepted in the black community because I was Korean, and I wasn't accepted in the…

— Hines Ward

Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and…

— Jesmyn Ward

He rose and turned toward the lights of town. The tidepools bright as smelterpots among the dark rocks where the phosphorescent seacrabs…

— Cormac McCarthy

Economic justice is not just something blacks are crying out for; whites are desperate for it, too. But in the public imagination,…

— Darryl Pinckney

At first I read mostly books by Southern authors - black and white - because almost all the people I knew were…

— Edward P. Jones

My name is Arsenio. That's a very unique name for a black man. In Greek, it means Leroy.

— Arsenio Hall