Best 3497 quotes in «black quotes» category

Before we ever finished shooting, there were things going on. For instance we always had different fingers exposed in our gloves, and always latex and black. And that Versace collection that hit the runway in the spring, we went, "Oh my gosh!" and then they came out and said it was "Tron" inspired. I love it! To me, there are no insults in that whatsoever. I love that other people are inspired by the movie.

Before the 90s, black metal wasn't a selling tool [and didn't] have money behind it. Then it became a pop sensation. Now that the record industry has collapsed and started to rot, things are livening up a bit again.

Be good children, and we shall all meet in Heaven. I want to meet you all, white and black, in Heaven. Our Federal Union! It must be preserved! [Toast at a celebration of Thomas Jefferson's birthday, April 13 1830]

Being a black woman, I've often felt I've been judged by my sex and my race, and I have always known that it shouldn't hamper me.

Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness and your black presence.

Being a black rapper is like being a Southern, socialite woman: You're always worried about appearances.

Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair.

Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you showed me a script with a black woman character I would tell you that I could do it. That is what we do. We act as if we are someone else.

Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind. Those who accept it are poor; those who struggle are middle class.

Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.

Being black only helps them. Many times they get sponsors because they are black. And they have had a lot of advantages because they can always say, 'It's racism.' They can always come back and say, 'Because we are this color, things happen.'

Being black and speaking properly are not mutually exclusive. My father was an African, and he spoke beautifully at home. Nelson Mandela speaks beautifully. Should Mandela put his hat on backwards and say, 'Yo, homey, this is Nelson. Yo, Winnie, yo, this is def'?

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.

Being gay is harder than being black. I didn't have to come out black. I didn't have to tell my parents about what its like to be black.

Being tall and big was probably more painful than being black.

Being the person I am, you know, the size I am, being a woman, being a black woman, there's not a lot of roles for us.

Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me personal property. I lost the remaining shreds of my anonymity, even to walk a few yards in London, Paris or Frankfurt without being stopped.

Being the first person to go to college that really related to me from the movie [The Butler] because being black and going to college everyone puts so much hope into you.

Believing in things you cannot see Even with my trembling arms I want to protect someone dear to me The place my thought that proggressed up to now struggle on to To see hopes Even in a black, confined world

Be loud, be pretty and keep their black-hatin' asses in their chairs

Ben Starling, you better not have bought your token black friend a racist shirt

Better a pink bottom than a black soul.

Better have a black face than be worried about black deeds.

Between black and white there throbs the universe of chromatic phenomena.

Bet on black. Buy low-debt or no-debt companies. When the economy is in trouble, these companies usually have enough cash on hand to stay out of trouble. And they seldom need to borrow when interest rates are high.

Between the black of yesterday and the white of tomorrow is the great gray of today.

Beware of self-righteousness. The black devil of licentiousness destroys his hundreds, but the white devil of self-righteousness destroys his thousands.

Beyond [known peoples of black West Africa] to the south there is no civilization in the proper sense. There are only humans who are closer to dumb animals than to rational beings. They live in thickets and caves, and eat herbs and unprepared grain. They frequently eat each other. They cannot be considered human beings.

Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.

Bill Clinton is a liar, a perverted kind of a guy anyway, and he is always stroking black folks rather than telling them the truth.

Billy Gilbert hit a kamikaze back pass which Justin Fashinu pounced on like a black Frank Bruno

Bill Clinton did everything in opposition to Black Lives Matter and the things that animate the existence of the Democrat Party today.

Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.

Bill Cosby is one of America's most successful black performers.

Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.

Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit black hearts.

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be a colony in a nation.

Black bears rarely attack. But here's the thing. Sometimes they do. All bears are agile, cunning and immensely strong, and they are always hungry. If they want to kill you and eat you, they can, and pretty much whenever they want. That doesn't happen often, but - and here is the absolutely salient point - once would be enough.

Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical.

Black Box is not a statement about injustice committed against Sephardi Oriental Jews or about the extremism of religious Jews or the lack of imagination of the old Israeli elites. It's a human story, in my view, first and foremost about a mystical communion between enemies. This is the inner story of the novel. This is my business as a novelist. It is not about positions and ideas.

Black crime rates fell more steeply than white crime rates, and now black incarceration is falling more steeply than white incarceration.

Black Americans make up 10 or 11% of the population, but they account now for something of 40 to 45% of all the abortions. This is a privileged position that I'm not sure anyone in their right mind would aspire to.

Black beauty - he's a dark horse.

Black boxes are really important to our investigators. The cockpit voice recorder can give us insight into what's going on with the crew in the cockpit. The flight data recorders can give us insight into what's happening with the performance of the aircraft.

Black does not signify the darkness related to death or nothingness, but a darkness that combines everything and holds the possibility of creation, a temporary death that embraces rebirth.

Black coffee’s a lot like whiskey, you know? All devil and no trimmin’s. Always liked my sins pure and take it as it comes.

Black college-educated people got to where they are on the backs of domestic help, meaning their parents and grandparents. So people should not forget how they got to where they are.

Black Consciousness is in essence the realization by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their oppression.

Black conservatives have a right to exist, but why would I want to walk around with a swastika on my shirt after the way Hitler done messed it up?

Black culture is something I don't relate to much at all.