Black Quotes · Page 74

I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.

— Malcolm X

For me black is not dark, it's poetic. I don't think of gothic I think of classic - it's a big difference.

— Ann Demeulemeester

When it comes to the discussion of oppression in America, we've been experiencing the worst of it for a long time. What's…

— Chokwe Lumumba

Mattia was right: the days had slipped over her skin like a solvent, one after the other, each removing a very thin…

— Paolo Giordano

Like I tell people they wind up having short term pleasure and long term pain. I'm a tell what Minister Louis Farrakhan…

— Mr. T

I turned and found Dionysus standing there, still in his black suit. Walk with me,” he said. Where to?” I asked suspiciously.…

— Rick Riordan

For black Americans, we know that gun control... sprouts from racist soil - be it after the or during the infamous Dred…

— Niger Innis

Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar; in an antiquary's study, not; the black battle-stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but…

— John Ruskin

I'm a woman. I'm black. I am passionate. I am transparent.

— Bozoma Saint John

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

— Andre Gide

I am a fragment of a mirror whose whole design and shape I do not know. Nevertheless, with what I have -…

— Robert Fulghum

I believe if any of these candidates really understood that America is in the crosshairs of God, and that America will never…

— Louis Farrakhan

What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering,…

— Tom Hanks

They used to say, 'If we find a good black player, we'll sign him.' They was lying.

— Cool Papa Bell

I was one of I think three white girls in my school. So, I was very much an outsider. And plus I…

— Janis Ian

Certainly I feel like I'm the tip of the arrow at times because certainly the national media wants to talk about the…

— Tim Scott

I am for Obama, all the way. I dont support Obama just because he is a black man; I support him because…

— Tony Yayo

I've been so blessed. If someone asked me whom I would choose to be if I could come back in another life,…

— Shirley Temple

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player…

— Vince Lombardi

It only takes five people in black robes to determine such crucial issues for our country as abortion, pornography, same-sex 'marriage,' and…

— Richard Land

The Olympic flag [] has a white background, with five interlaced rings in the centre: blue, yellow, black, green and red [].…

— Pierre de Coubertin

I can not forget Melina Mercouri in black dress at 'Never on Sunday'.

— Jean Paul Gaultier

I've tried to move [the sidhe-seers] during times of peace and quiet and had the luck of a broken mirror nailed beneath…

— Karen Marie Moning

The Black woman is the most unprotected, unloved woman on earth...she is the only flower on earth...that grows unwatered.

— Kola Boof

As a black and as a woman, I didn't think that I would really want to live in any of the eras…

— Octavia E. Butler

In America, Black people are always getting robbed.

— Jason Johnson

My work on black holes was on the connection between black holes and elementary particles.

— Ashoke Sen

I will go out again this very night with my rockets and fuses. I will blow them straight out of their comfortable…

— Jennifer Donnelly

I don't like conservatives. They always talk about the good old days. I'm black, we have no good old days.

— Alonzo Bodden

This is a concept that western culture has forgotten : everything is one! The idea of dichotomy is deeply wrong and nothing…

— Tiziano Terzani

When I was a kid and we played baseball we used to use that "eye black" stuff sometimes - that kind of…

— Ben Lerner

In the films I've done recently, I've been learning a little more about the side of myself that enjoys being a light.…

— Angelina Jolie

The black community has been the foundation of the progressive community in this country for a long time.

— Benjamin Todd Jealous

What the white man in America needs to realize is there's a new thinking among black people today which makes them not…

— Malcolm X

We have triumphed in the effort to implant hope in the breasts of the millions of our people. We enter into a…

— Nelson Mandela

If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and the Rolling Stones because they're…

— Chris Cornell

Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found…

— Annette Funicello

Black people, we built America, and we gave it all of its pop culture and all of its great musical genres.

— Robert Glasper

However, if Moscow regains control over Ukraine, with its 52 million people and major resources as well as access to the Black…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.

— Rachel Zoe