Black Quotes · Page 421

The colonists are by the law of nature free-born, as indeed all man are, white or black...It is a clear truth that…

— James Otis

I don't know why we work, my husband and I. We just do. We are black and white - yin and yang.

— Heidi Klum

I have done more for black people than any other person in the nation, North or South,

— Strom Thurmond

There are a lot of black-hearted, mean-spirited bastards in the world. It's important that we hold them to acount. But always remember…

— Darren Shan

Just as incarceration has come to define the lives of low-income black men, eviction is defining the lives of low-income black women.

— Matthew Desmond

Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.

— Yannick Noah

How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music…

— Afrika Bambaataa

It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you're associating with black people.

— Donald Sterling

…“white supremacy” is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies…

— Bell Hooks

A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each time finding…

— Michael Silverblatt

The colors are stunning. In a single view, I see - looking out at the edge of the earth: red at the…

— William C. McCool

I grew up wearing black arm-bands when the hunger strikers died. I went on those marches. I grew up basically a Provo,…

— Glen Hansard

I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against…

— Philip Zimbardo

Only a few kinds of images force you to shut your eyes: death, suffering, the opening of the body, some aspects of…

— Orlan

And what is the Republican solution to these outrageous [racial] inequalities? There isn't one. And that's the point. Denying racism is the…

— Bill Maher

Many of the Jews who owned the homes, the apartments in the black community, we considered them bloodsuckers because they took from…

— Louis Farrakhan

If I told you God was black, what would you think of that?

— Ray Davies

There is only black light between the stars. It may seem that it's darkness, but it's really black light. There is no…

— Frederick Lenz

“It doesn't have to be dreads. You can wear an Afro, or braids like you used to. There's a lot you can…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I grew up in traditional black patriarchal culture and there is no doubt that I’m going to take a great many unconscious,…

— Cornel West

One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could…

— Stokely Carmichael

Reckless capitalism kills black people.

— Mos Def

I love chocolate. Black chocolate with marshmallow inside, caramel inside. If I could only have two foods, I'd take some fantastic chocolate.…

— Sonia Rykiel

Everything which we loved is lost. We are in a desert .... Before us is nothing but a black square on a…

— Kazimir Malevich

I hope that audiences understand that there is a precariousness to black lives in this country that we need to address, that…

— Yance Ford