Best 3497 quotes in «black quotes» category

I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me.

I decided to live as an individual and as I grew older, and thought more, and read more and experienced more, my views became more conservative. But my group is liberal. Not only that, they say, 'If you're not liberal and not a Democrat, you're not black. If you're conservative, you're a sellout.' Here, then, I'm living with that kind of a pressure against my individuality.

I decorated my house like a medieval gothic castle, European-style. Chandeliers and red velvet curtains. My bedroom is pink and black, my bathroom is totally Hello Kitty, I have a massive pink couch and a big antique gold cross.

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

I’d gone heavy on the black eye makeup until raccoons and I could pass for cousins.

I did have fun, for example, in The Black Hole which was very popular among youngsters.

I didn't elect [Barack] Obama because he's a black; I voted for Obama because he was the right person at the time.

I did not believe what I was told about being poor and black and female in Mississippi in 1954.

I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.

I did not have a computer until recently. I'm not really a computer person; I'm really hands-on. I can't make it work if it's all behind the black curtain. It doesn't interest me. I want to see what's actually happening back there.

I did not know that 'poetess' was an insult, and that I myself would some day be called one. I did not know that to be told I had transcended my gender would be considered a compliment. I didn't know — yet — that black was compulsory. All of that was in the future. When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me — yet — the many, many reasons why it could not be written by me.

I didn't feel like it was essential to have a white host or a black host, I wanted a good host.

I didn't form a group to perform Cilla Black songs.

I didn't like The Wiz and it wasn't because black people were doing it. I didn't like The Wiz because it was a badly made movie off a classic. Why are you remaking something unless you have something better in mind?

I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!

I didn't realize, when I decided to be a comic, that a black person had never been allowed to stand flat-footed in America and talk to white folks. It never happened before.

I didn’t want to kill girls… even vampire girls. Though I might make an exception for that blonde.

I'd like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy and cherish. Culture is for everybody.

I'd like to see more beauty campaigns for girls who are mixed Latina and black. And if I'm in them, that's great, but overall there's a scarcity there. Companies need to be more mindful of the world we live in and who their consumer is.

I do a chimichurri sauce with garlic, parsley, olive oil, and red and black pepper. You just mince the garlic and the parsley and mix it all together. Brush a little of that on a steak and it kicks it up, like, 10 notches.

I’d noticed that his eyes were black – coal black.

I do consider myself part of black history.

I do have a favorite Zeppelin song, Larry, Black Dog.

I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could - if that were your sole purpose - you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down.

I do not remember-that is the point-the first impulse that pumped and shoved most of the earlier poems along, and they are still too near me, with their vehement beat-pounding black and green rhythms like those of a very young policeman exploding, for me to see the written evidence of it.

I don't agree with the Black Lives Matter organizers. They are stated as anti-capitalists. And it's much more than just the police to them. It's about changing society entirely.

I don't care if you're black, white, short, tall, skinny, rich or poor. If you respect me I'll respect you

I don't care if you're gay, black, Chinese, straight. That means nothing to me. It's all an illusion.

I don't care who the president is - it isn't just all about who's black or who's white or who's Republican or Democrat, it's about who is for the betterment of people, period.

I don't claim to say, "All black women are like me," because they're not.

I don't care if it's five dead cops, a dead black citizen in Minnesota or in Louisiana, there are people trying to profit from it, politically profit from it. It's undeniable. I think it's cheap and I think it's sick. But they are there. And you and I both know who they are.

I don’t care if the cat is black or white, I just want it to kill the mice.

I don't do black music. I don't do white music. I do fight music, unified in Christ music.

I don't eat meat, fish, or eggs. I was never a big meat-eater, but I've got more energy now. I eat a lot of tofu, and I drink soy shakes with fruit every morning. I always have soybeans, black beans, or chickpeas for lunch or dinner

I don't get back as much as I'd like to, so I don't have a lot of close ties [Pittsburgh], but I'll bleed black and gold until I die.

I don't go and study other folks. I come from where I came from, as a kid, in the little black church I grew up in. And some of the things they did I rejected, because I could see that it was a manipulation and an exaggeration. My struggle is never to fool folks; to keep it authentic - who we are and who we are becoming - rather than to mimic or to translate what others do into my own terms.

I don't have any leeches on my speed dial." — Jacob Black

I don't have much contact at all with other black metal bands.

I don't have an objective overview of Black Sunday.

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, etc... but always custom.

I don't know exactly what a black Chinese restaurant would be, but I would sure love to see one.

I don't just want to be the best black player or the best Asian player. I want to be the best golfer ever.

I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from India.

I don't like perpetuating the stereotype of black males being drug dealers, and criminals.

I don't know why people always compare me [ with Amiri Baraka] I was never part of the Black Arts Repertory Theater or the Black Arts Movement; people who claim that I was are wrong. I was downtown. I was living in Chelsea when they were operating in Harlem.

I don't like black. You wear black when you're miserable.

I don't like the fact that most black people or black comedians have to present themselves in a flamboyant way. It's good if you can do that, but I don't like to think that's the way all black comedians are. I'm not that type.

I don't like to see projects that are all black or all white. It's how life is. I do like to make sure that I do a nice black family film; that's like keeping my home base. I do other things, but I like to always come back to a positive family film, because of all the negative influences today.

I don't like toast... the black stuff gets in my teeth.

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