Black Quotes · Page 48

I, however, like black. It is a color that makes me comfortable and the color with which I have the most experience.…

— James Frey

I lived my life as a - as a part-white, part-black but then sometimes-Jewish kid.

— Trevor Noah

As I do not live in an age when rustling black skirts billow about me, and I do not carry an ebony…

— Florida Scott-Maxwell

Anyone who knows Black women and their hair knows it is a big commitment.

— Annamie Paul

There was one awkward moment where a black man stood-up to ask a question and out of habit, Bush said 'Clemency denied.'

— Bill Maher

In [Ralph] Ellison's case, it's more psychological than it is phenomenal, and it's conditioned by anger, animosity, and lack of desire to…

— Kerry James Marshall

Black folks aren't asked to make films about all white people. But what would have happened if we did? What would white…

— RaMell Ross

I take my coffee the same way I take my women: Strong, black, and proud.

— Michael Ian Black

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

— Gloria Steinem

As a matter of fact they'd blacken us down. I guess there's a reason that according to what the Caucasian wanted us…

— Billy Eckstine

In 1957, when I was in second grade, black children integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. We watched it on…

— Henry Louis Gates

We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We…

— Mitch Daniels

The films of Warhol, when they are about anything are about sucking people off. This can be high art, to people who…

— Amiri Baraka

“I don’t know about black or white magic I just know one type and that is your magic.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Evidence tells that black and Latina woman are more accepting of curves, and that's a good thing.

— Lori Lansens

The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through…

— Nikki Giovanni

I personally don't feel any pressure to make jokes about multiple baby-fathers and stereotypical black jokes, because one, that's just not my…

— Issa Rae

I wear black on the outside, because black is how I feel on the inside.

— Anonymous

A black sheep is a biting beast.

— Thomas Bastard

I think that boxing is actually not as dangerous as the politics. In boxing, you're gonna get a bloody nose or a…

— Wladimir Klitschko

With stage, you feel completely like you're just in a bubble. I love not being able to see anything. I love coming…

— Bill Nighy

Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living…

— Henry Louis Gates

Looking back, the way I see it, there was something slightly deluded about my belief - what that meant to me -…

— Michaela Coel

I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who…

— June Jordan