Black Quotes · Page 420

Creating a world that reflects the inner voyage of our characters was really important. Also, because this isn't a black and white…

— Veena Sud

Everything about us black people is complicated, us being here, being a minority, being a woman, all those things are complicated.

— Nicole Beharie

It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there were even black and white…

— Isabel Wilkerson

Kim Coates is my best friend. I met Coatsy in 2001 in Morocco while working on 'Black Hawk Down.'

— William Fichtner

A floor length backless black sequined dress would be my dream dress. As for my dream date - that would have to…

— Rebecca Hall

Ancient Egypt was a Negro Civilization. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in air and cannot be written correctly until…

— Cheikh Anta Diop

I've been locked up for not having insurance, only to be released. I mean, this sort of thing is just par for…

— Jamaal Bowman

I happen to think that conservatism, when properly applied to the 21st century, could actually help everybody. And the message of Trump's…

— J. D. Vance

No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.

— Andrew Young

[Donald Trump] has really started his political activity based on this racist lie that our first black president was not an American…

— Hillary Clinton

There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and…

— Bobby Seale

I'm even stunned at some of the majors you can get in college these days. Like you can major in the mating…

— Rush Limbaugh

I don't have one specific tattooing specialty. I enjoy doing full-color new school, portraits, neo-traditional, realistic, black and gray, ultra detailed art,…

— William Webb

I liked Jackie Robinson because he was cool to watch, not because he was black. Every time you turned around, he was…

— Cheech Marin

That's such a great book [Bloods]. That's a perfect way to articulate this thing that we're talking about. Just because someone is…

— Paul Beatty

Observe immigrants not as they come travel-wan up the gang-plank, nor as they issue toil-begrimed from the pit's mouth or mill-gate, but…

— Edward Alsworth Ross

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between…

— Eminem

I was black and blue for about two years, but it's paid off tremendously. You know, if you get enough whacks, your…

— Lucy Lawless

I used to come out here every Fourth of July as a child to picnic and to swim on the island, to…

— Natasha Trethewey

I've married a man who owns nine cows," said Jinjur to Ozma, "and now I am happy and contented and willing to…

— L. Frank Baum

I really feel all my adult life has been spent in that little black box. If a wonderful part on TV came…

— Bea Arthur

The three of us [me, Mike Dean, Woody Weatherman] all learned how to play our instruments together. We had a common interest…

— Reed Mullin

Why should you be bogged down with my titles and how I thought about it and my poetic reasoning? No, that's not…

— Leonardo Drew

Atheism is like the highest level of white privilege. It's like having a black belt in white privilege.

— W. Kamau Bell

I know some actors don't want to see faces out there; they prefer to perform to a black wall. But I like…

— Adrian Lester