Best 3497 quotes in «black quotes» category

Education remains one of the black community's most enduring values. It is sustained by the belief that freedom and education go hand in hand, that learning and training are essential to economic quality and independence.

Einstein got most of the things right about black holes. I'm not an expert, I must admit

Either a peaceful old age awaits me, or death flies round me with black wings. [Lat., Seu me tranquilla senectus Exspectat, seu mors atris circumvolat alis.]

Either because I was an athlete or because I was black - probably both - there seemed to be a clear assumption that I wouldn't be up to the work.

Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it's show business. You know, we all got rhythm.

Electing a black man named Barack Obama President in the same country that elected George W. Bush - twice! - is as far-fetched as a hustler from Marcy performing at that President's inauguration. But it happened.

Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of what we dreamed and struggled and died for.

Electoral reforms are necessary if India has to be rid of black money.

Eliminate irrelevant and inaccurate comunications about what it means to be male or female, black or white, young or old, rich or poor, disabled or temporarily able-bodied, or to hold a particular belief system.

Elvis' disappearing body is like a flashing event horizon at the edge of the black hole that is America today.

Enough white lies can scorch the earth black.

Etching will suggest subtle variations of tone, the most delicate shadings, all with black lines, which, as far as lines go, are unsurpassed for sheer beauty.

Eve: Anyway, thanks for riding to the rescue. You need a white hat. Good guys wear white, right? Roarke: I look better in black.

Even after the child, the life of the black child was saved, but that same white man will have to toss him right back into the discriminate, into discrimination, segregation, and these other things.

Even as someone who's labeled a conservative - I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm heading up this organization in the Reagan administration - I can say that conservatives don't exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they're welcome.

Even during the casting process, the pools of talent are so deep when you have a call for Latin women or black women or a middle-aged woman because they never get their shot. There's so much talent there.

Even if its a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.

Even in the days when they did Othello, you didn't necessarily have to be black to play Othello. You wore the makeup.

Even in 2012, if there's a black character in the movies or on television that's a professional, if we even hear about their backgrounds they're always 'up from the streets.

Even if you meet the perfect person, it ain’t gonna be at the perfect time. You’re married, they’re single. That’s right. You’re Jewish, they’re Palestinian. You’re a Mexican, they’re a raccoon. You’re a black woman, he’s a black man.

Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic.

Even somebody like The Black Keys or Royal Blood, they all have this original roots base to what they do.

Even pirates, before they attack another ship, hoist a black flag.

Even though I couldn't speak English, there were many times that my black-American parents could read my mind and I could read theirs.

Even the notion that, you know,[Bill] Clinton was the black president strikes me as the greatest irony of all times.

Eventually [black men] are arrested, whether they've committed any serious crime or not, and branded criminals or felons for life. Upon release, they're ushered into a parallel social universe in which the civil and human rights supposedly won during the Civil Rights Movement no longer apply to them.

Eventually I got the call for 'Iron Man,' and I read sides that had nothing to do with what I did in the movie, and I performed it once while no one was in the room - it was videotaped, and I'm sure Shane Black was watching it from his helicopter or something. And then I got a call the next day that I was going down to shoot it.

Even when we're blindfolded, even when you're wearing sunglasses, even in the pitch black of night, we can always tell if you just ogled another woman.

Ever since the civil rights movement, the black church has always encouraged people to utilize their voting right, which is a right that was fought for.

Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview.'

Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers.

Everybody in the '80s, well, we hate rap. Now, the biggest rapper in the world... Eminem. Rap's a black thing.

Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.

Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.

Everybody knows that Black Sabbath started everything and almost every single thing that people are playing today has already been done by Black Sabbath. They wrote every single good riff... ever.

Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black legs and drove you mad, wicked mad.

Every day of my life I walk with the idea that I am black, no matter how successful I am. And our success is tempered by that; you're successful in this way given the fact you are black, and most blacks don't get to that point.

Everybody was wearing rhinestones, all those sparkly clothes, and cowboy boots. I decided to wear a black shirt and pants and see if I could get by with it. I did and I've worn black clothes ever since.

Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first.

Every day of my life I walk with the idea I am black no matter how successful I am.

Everyone said that the NBA could not possibly make it because it had too many black players.

Every girl should have a little black dress, a great boyfriend blazer and a pair of skinny jeans in their wardrobe.

Every person that steps up and commits to social change helps solidify the black movement cause. It is not easy for those who fill in the leader role.

Everything about us black people is complicated, us being here, being a minority, being a woman, all those things are complicated.

Every refugee finds his American dream on the backs of the nightmare of Black suffering in America.

Every pastor I talk to says, and particularly if they're African American they'll say, "I'm not black enough for African Americans. I'm not white enough for the whites. I'm not Hispanic enough.

Every second, ten stars set behind the black water in the west.

Everything I talk about in stand-up is my experiences as an American, as a father, as a husband, as a black man, as a human being.

Everything the black people are doing comes from the Honorable Elijah Mohammed. They are black now, they don't want to be called Negroes. This come from the Honorable Elijah Mohammed.

Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.