Black Quotes - page 3

Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black. (Shirley Chisholm)
No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women. View quote
Bell hooks
Still falls the Rain - Dark as the world of man, black as our loss - Blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails Upon the Cross. View quote
Edith Sitwell
The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness. View quote
Marcus Garvey
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. View quote
James Baldwin
Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. View quote
James Baldwin
Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it. View quote
Oscar Wilde
I'm for the poor man - all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. 'Every man a king' - that's my slogan. View quote
Huey Long
We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer. View quote
Jules Verne
We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa Baa Baa We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa-aa-aa Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity, God ha' mercy on such as we, Baa Yah Bah. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
It's great to be black in Hollywood. When a black actor does something, it seems new and different just by virtue of the fact that he's black. (Will Smith)
Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all. View quote
Bob Marley
Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash. View quote
Louis Aragon
I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish. View quote
Michael Jordan
Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white. View quote
William Blake
Just when things look darkest, they go black. View quote
Paul Newman
There's so much gray to every story-nothing is so black and white. View quote
Lisa Ling
Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters. View quote
Eden Ahbez
If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us, and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country. View quote
Malcolm X
The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community no more. View quote
Malcolm X
Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs. (Jim Morrison)
Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us. View quote
Buchi Emecheta
There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else. View quote
Audre Lorde
I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man. View quote
Morgan Freeman
There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'. View quote
Eminem