Black Quotes - Page 101

Ah! the curse of slavery, as the common phrase goes, has fallen not merely on the black but perhaps at this moment still more upon the white, because it has warped his sense of truth and has degraded his moral nature. The position and the treatment of the blacks, however, really improve from year to year; while the whites do not seem to advance in enlightenment.

White lies are ushers to black ones.

Being black and speaking properly are not mutually exclusive. My father was an African, and he spoke beautifully at home. Nelson Mandela speaks beautifully. Should Mandela put his hat on backwards and say, 'Yo, homey, this is Nelson. Yo, Winnie, yo, this is def'?

She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought.

The only crime I'm guilty of is being a young black woman.

There was already a deep black wordless conviction in him that the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin.

Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.

I want to explain how exhausted I am. Even in my dreams. How I wake up tired. How I’m being drowned by some kind of black wave.

You see, in recent history, the Democrat party has created the illusion that their agenda and their policies are what's best for black people.

Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.

Many voted in 2008 with the desire to see racism and racists humiliated by having a qualified black man elected president.

The first black president will be a politician who is black.

A remarkable documentary and the first in-depth record of many black women, slave and free.

God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone's sexual preferences are or if they're black, brown or purple.

I will be the first black James Bond.

Since neither black animosity nor the Left's falsehood of 'racial tensions' is based on the actual behavior of the vast majority of white Americans, nothing white America could do will affect either many blacks' perceptions or the leftist libel.

The greatest hope most Americans - including Republicans - had when Barack Obama was elected president was that the election of a black person as the country's president would reduce, if not come close to eliminating, the racial tensions that have plagued America for generations.

Once one understands that 'racial tensions' is a euphemism for a black animosity toward whites and a left-wing construct, one begins to understand why the election of a black president has had no impact on most blacks or on the left.

Scientists have discovered a black hole that is 12 billion times the size of our sun. It's full of Hillary Clinton emails.

I love Black Sabbath. They made an amazing contribution to music today. Almost every band that made it big in the Nineties owed a debt to them.

What I do isn't black music, it's just my music.

Identity has several parts, and the self needs to expand. Black youth should be encouraged to have as many parts or as rich an identity as possible. It's a form of allowing them to be curious about the world.

The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization.

Democracy is about criticism. I didn't elect Obama because he's a black; I voted for Obama because he was the right person at the time. Period. The exceptionalism of a black U.S. President is not important to me. It's what he does. And who he has at the table. And what he does to change the world - that's what's important.

Boredom is not black licorice, Snicket," she said. "There's no reason to share it with me.