Black Quotes
Black holes, bias, and belonging, all in one word.
This collection ranges from cosmic curiosity about black holes and possibility to a pointed observation about racial conditioning and who gets blamed for problems. For quotes on subtler, quieter qualities, see Mystery quotes.
In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.'
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The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them.
The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador attain liberty, and inspired our forefathers to shed their blood for the United States' independence, cannot die....
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
People think that everyone wears black in France; in fact they all wear grey.
It would be much easier to just make black, brown and beige clothes. But I do not see the world in black and white and beige. I find colors incredibly important.
Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made.
What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes...
It's very important to get facials. Facials and sunscreen - people don't believe that black people need sunscreen, but sunscreen with save your life.
We grew up in a very strange world, because my mother was up against it all when she had three black children.
I really like black. I love wearing black, different aesthetics and shades. I like earth tones. Those are my go-tos.
I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree.
The black comedians meeting? Oh yeah, we hold one every year at Eddie Murphy's house.
When you grow up in New Orleans, like, the only way to be an artist is to be a 55-year-old black musician. That's basically what we wanted to be. If you had asked me very truthfully what I wanted to...
It's like one of the best things that can ever happen to you as an actor: to have your story reach people, even if they don't look like you and even though they may not be able to identify with...
The definition of gumbo is almost as slippery as that of Creole. Just as gumbo can contain pretty much any kind of meat or seafood, Creole is a vague and inclusive term for native New Orleanians, who may be black...
It may be for 20 or 30 years no one has yet been able to decide the length of the life of the black bass.
