Black Quotes · Page 56

The record companies really do conspire against the artists. Especially the black artists

— Michael Jackson

I go through different phases and change my mind about my style all the time. In the winter, I wanted to wear…

— Heather Morris

My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.

— Henry Louis Gates

Being trans comes at a high cost, but being black and trans can cost you your life.

— Angelica Ross

First thing we have to do is recognize the time. We're at the end of the time of the White world to…

— Louis Farrakhan

The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in…

— Gail Collins

First of all, [St. Stephen's] is a radical church. It was one of the first DC churches to have gay ceremonies. A…

— Ian MacKaye

Last year, when we were in Mobile, Al., covering Hurricane Ivan, we heard the stories of poor people, many of them black…

— Al Roker

Until 'Moonlight,' I had never seen one black man cook for another on screen. But I wanted the characters to be free…

— Barry Jenkins

Ever at Thy glowing altar Must my heart grow sick and falter, Wishing He I served were black.

— Countee Cullen

In the early days, you would get skinheads, the Eagles and Black Sabbath playing the same show.

— Ozzy Osbourne

I remember getting flowers and champagne for being one of the first black artists on MTV. That was a big deal.

— Tionne Watkins

I want to be remembered as a combination of Malcolm X and Marvin Gaye, a strong black leader and a sexy entertainer.

— Big Daddy Kane

This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the…

— Honore de Balzac

Girl lithe and tawny, the sun that forms the fruits, that plumps the grains, that curls seaweeds filled your body with joy,…

— Pablo Neruda

In Soviet times, the border was closed, so we couldn't get out of the country, and I had been reading Robinson Crusoe.…

— Wladimir Klitschko

There is a perception within our community and the world that black people don't love each other. That we don't fight for…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn't get served at a restaurant two blocks from my…

— Monte Irvin

Black, white and nude are my essential colors. Each time I start a collection, I start with these colors; they are the…

— Narciso Rodriguez

Black people don't know what white people are talking about when they talk about a Sister Souljah moment. I tell them it's…

— Sister Souljah

In the past, yes, I have made sweeping indictments of all white people. I never will be guilty of that again -…

— Malcolm X

The principal thing is the question of how our culture views age: that old is ugly. Take a photographer like Mapplethorpe. Every…

— John Coplans

“Black is not sad. Bright colors are what depresses me. They’re so… empty. Black is poetic. How do you imagine a poet?…

— Ann Demeulemeester

Black men, you were once great; you shall be great again. Lose not courage or faith, go forward.

— Marcus Garvey

We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.

— Rand Paul