Black Quotes - page 98

My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So. . .you're black. (Al Roker)
Choices of right or wrong are not presented to you in black and white. If they were, I'm sure most people would choose white. View quote
Bethany McLean
I don't care who the president is - it isn't just all about who's black or who's white or who's Republican or Democrat, it's about who is for the betterment of people, period. View quote
Big Boi
My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument. View quote
Bill Kreutzmann
As a matter of fact they'd blacken us down. I guess there's a reason that according to what the Caucasian wanted us to look like. He wanted us to look-if we were Black, then he had his idea of what we look like. View quote
Billy Eckstine
I was so beat down as a young person - being black, being gay, being unable to assimilate because I could never, ever pull off being butch. View quote
Billy Porter
I grew up when one of America's greatest black playwrights, August Wilson, was writing about life in Pittsburgh, but I never saw myself in any of his straight-male plays. And then I see 'Angels,' which was so honest and painful, and it had this black drag queen in it, Belize, with a big heart. I finally had a character to relate to. View quote
Billy Porter
I heard we'll get you a pass because we know you're married to a black woman. You're married to a sister so we'll give you that pass but also, those who know me but also if they look at the body of work, it is the bigger picture. View quote
Blair Underwood
When I talk about rock n' roll, to me, that goes back to the beginning of the 1950s. Blue suede shoes and sideburns, man. Pink and black coloured clothes. Turn your collar up, comb your hair in ducktails. And the music was cool. It was a whole culture then - a different world. View quote
Bobby Keys
I was very young at the time, and I mainly appreciated their vocal qualities, even though I was already living as they did - as black performers in a white world. View quote
Bobby Short
I'm coming for Ryan Seacrest - I want to be the black Ryan Seacrest for BET. I want to host, I want to produce, I want to do everything for the network. (Bow Wow)
I am angry about the world's conditions for black people. View quote
Brenda Fassie
I tend to look for the good in bad people and the bad in good people, to make them human. 'Cause I don't think that people generally are that black and white. Maybe in movie-land they can be... but that isn't necessarily all there is. View quote
Brendan Gleeson
I mean, I'm pretty good in real life, but sometimes people seem surprised that I'm like a normal teenager and wear black nail polish and I'm just a little bit more edgy than the person I play on television. View quote
Brittany Snow
I actually had kind of one of those crazy experiences where when I hit, it was black out excruciating pain, and then white out absence of pain, and the subconscience thought that I want to go back. View quote
Brooke Burns
My sons remember me most as a Cardinal. My one son is 26 years old, and I don't think he's ever seen me without a beard. It's not as black as it used to be, but it's still there. View quote
Bruce Sutter
Black is overrated. You'll never find it in my stores. Of course it's slimming, but it's just used too much, especially for men. One black suit by one designer, another one by another - they all look the same in the end. If I walk into a crowded hotel lobby and I'm wearing a black suit, I just look like everyone else. View quote
Brunello Cucinelli
I have a black lab named Luke. View quote
Bryan Clay
In the rural South, 'Bubba' is like how people say 'dude' in California. It's a name for a regular Southern man. I know a Chinese Bubba, a black Bubba. View quote
Bubba Sparxxx
It was a black and white only computer at the time, but it kept me fascinated. View quote
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Reggae music don't really focus on one thing, you know. If reggae music is speaking about the struggle of people, and the suffering, it don't mean black people. It mean people in general. (Burning Spear)
Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be. View quote
Barbara Smith
I don't have an objective overview of Black Sunday. View quote
Barbara Steele
Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships. View quote
Barney Ross
There's not too many rich black people in this world. View quote
Barry Bonds