Black Quotes - page 2

Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye. (Bill Hicks)
I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images. View quote
Huey P. Newton
Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed. View quote
Henrik Ibsen
Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study. View quote
William Congreve
The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet. View quote
William Butler Yeats
We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other. View quote
Audre Lorde
I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man. View quote
Nelson Mandela
All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead. View quote
Anna Akhmatova
We're going to fight racism not with racism, but we're going to fight with solidarity. We say we're not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we're going to fight it with socialism. View quote
Fred Hampton
Life is about choices. Some we regret, some were proud of. Some will haunt us forever. 'Black Rain' was very much about choices. The message - we are what we chose to be. View quote
Graham Brown
To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be. (Thomas Ligotti)
It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on what you look like. I'm black. So I'm supposed to think a certain way. I'm supposed to have certain opinions. I don't do that. You don't create a box and put people in and then make a lot of generalizations about them. View quote
Clarence Thomas
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. View quote
Theodor Adorno
George W. Bush doesn't care about black people. View quote
Kanye West
Colour is what gives jewels their worth. They light up and enhance the face. Nothing is more elegant than a black skirt and sweater worn with a sparkling multi-stoned necklace. View quote
Christian Dior
Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and separation of the white and black races. This goal must include freeing of the American media and government from subservient Jewish interests. View quote
David Duke
In the dark, all cats are black. View quote
John Cage
I do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too. View quote
Jim Henson
I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision. View quote
Carl Sandburg
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them. (Maya Angelou)
Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff. View quote
Steven Wright
The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. View quote
Frederick Douglass
Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people. View quote
Coretta Scott King
I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist. View quote
Ernest Hemingway