Best 3497 quotes in «black quotes» category

This day's black fate on more days doth depend; This but begins the woe, others must end.

This depression comes over me whenever the Lord is preparing a larger blessing for my ministry; the cloud is black before it breaks, and overshadows before it yields its deluge of mercy. Depression has now become to me as a prophet in rough clothing, a John the Baptist, heralding the nearer coming of my Lord's richer benison

This impeccably researched study of the classic black insult game may be the funniest work of serious scholarship ever published.

This is about black people selling out other black people.

This is a tradition of resistance to the term that's as old as the term itself, especially because that term has been used to commodify and reduce black creativity, and also to appropriate and sell it. That's what John Coltrane said in an interview with a Japanese journalist: "Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist." And he's treated as one of the central figures in the history of jazz. So if he rejected it, then why is it weird when I do it? I'm in the tradition!

This is brain surgery. Ski masks on my bullets, let 'em commit brain burglary. Emergency, it's an emergency. Someone in all black left the whole scene burgundy.

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is scared of something. He doesn't have confidence in himself or else he doesn't believe in what he's doing.

This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary. The trees of the mind are black. The light is blue.

This is the very center of everything there is. A huge black hole eating up the galaxy. The end of everything.

This morning the electricity came on for a few minutes, and when it did, Jonny said, "Hey, it's a black-on." This is what passes for humor around here.

This time, we went up to Big Bear for 3-4 weeks and sequestered ourselves writing this album [ "The Black Crown"].

This ring belongs to the black hand. He killed your dad.

This whole notion that all African-Americans are not going to vote for Obama is not necessarily true. I believe a third would vote for me, based on my own anecdotal feedback. Not vote for me because I'm black but because of my policies.

This would be so much easier if they actually issued black hoods.

Those who are most sensitive about "politically incorrect" terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even belong to any "oppressed" group but come from privileged strata of society.

Though I'm not the first king of controversy, I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley. To do black music so selfishly, and use it to get myself wealthy.

Though it be a thrilling and marvellous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so - doubly dynamic - to be young, gifted and black.

Thoughtful white people know they are inferior to black people.

...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears.

Through a process of trial and error and experimentation, I discovered the simplest method - using only black - produced work with the strongest visual impact installed.

Throughout history there have been black people who have played mammies, all sorts of offensive images, who didn't mind doing it.

thus, in a sense, we are all doomed. even if we stay away from black holes

Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Time will tell ... whether folks want to point and stare at the black woman filmmaker who made a certain kind of film, and pat her on the back, or if they want to actually roll up the sleeves and do a little bit of work so that there can be more of me coming through.

To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.

To a large extent the evil-doers have succeeded in producing at the output end of their machine a kind of black man who is man only in form. This is the extent to which the process of dehumanization has advanced.

To be Christian is to be one of those whom God has chosen. God has chosen black people!

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.

To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.

To begin at the beginning: It is a spring moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black.

To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.

To Craig's [ Brewer] credit, I felt totally safe on the set [of Black Snake Moan] . And because I felt safe, Sam[L.Jackson] had to protect me. He got upset at all the physical stuff Craig wanted me to do. When I start doing stuff like that, all the screaming and running, I kinda go out of my head. I'm not necessarily in my own body anymore.

Today we reject the notion of equality between a regime that belongs to the democratic world - even if it is conservative and disagreeable - and a totalitarian dictatorship, whether its colors are black, red, or green. This is why we will never again say that Chamberlain is no better than Hitler, Roosevelt no better than Stalin, and Nixon no better than Mao Zedong, even if we do condemn Roosevelt for Yalta, Chamberlain for Munich, and Nixon for Watergate.

To fairy flutes, As the light advances, In square black boots The cabman dances.

To me, not every black filmmaker who is making black films is trying to make black cinema.

To me, entertainment is really the new plantation. It's the new sugar, the new cotton, that black people work for somebody else to be richer than them.

Too hard for MTV, not black enough for BET, just let me be.

Tonight the sky was utterly black. Perhaps there was no moon tonight—a lunar eclipse, a new moon. A new moon. I shivered, though I wasn't cold.

Tommy told Sal about the strange white-cloth figure with black stitches that he had found on the front porch. "Sounds like Pillsbury Doughboy gone punk," Sal said.

Tony Black is the Tom Waits of Crime Fiction, yes, that good.

To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.

To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another.

To rally every black sheep is my goal.

to speak as black, female, and commercial lawyer has rendered me simultaneously universal, trendy, and marginal.

To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.

To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.

To tell a lie in cowardice, to tell a lie for gain, or to avoid deserved punishment--are all the blackest of black lies.

To those who feel that their values are THE values, the less controlled systems necessarily present a spectacle of "chaos," simply because such systems respond to a diversity of values. The more successfully such systems respond to diversity, the more "chaos" there will be, by definition, according to the standards of ANY specific set of values- other than diversity or freedom as values. Looked at another way, the more self-righteous observers there are, the more chaos (and "waste") will be seen.