Black Quotes - Page 13

She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn.

The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

I Hated Duke. I Felt Like They Only Recruited Black Players That Were Uncle Toms.

They call me racist too just because I disagree with a President who happens to be black. You are not racists - you are patriots.

I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me.

I decided to start anew-to strip away what I had been taught, to accept as true my own thinking. This was one of the best times of my life. There was no one around to look at what I was doing, no one interested, no one to say anything about it one way or another. I was alone and singularly free, working into my own, unknown-no one to satisfy but myself. I began with charcoal and paper and decided not to use any color until it was impossible to do what I wanted to do in black and white. I believe it was June before I needed blue.

The great Big Black Things that have loomed against the horizon of my life, threatening to devour me, simply loomed and nothing more. The things that have really made me miss my train have always been sweet, soft, pretty, pleasant things of which I was not in the least afraid.

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping.

One of the things I have an allergic reaction to playing, especially as a black actor, is the mandatory kind of best friend/cop/detective type. You will never see me in that movie.

To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.

I'm very proud of the Rome episode of 'No Reservations' because it violated all the conventional wisdom about making television. You're never, ever supposed to do a food or travel show in black and white.

It should be remembered that hundreds of people of African ancestry also walked the Trail of Tears with the Cherokee during the forced removal of 1838-1839. Although we know about the terrible human suffering of our native people and the members of other tribes during the removal, we rarely hear of those black people who also suffered.

I'm not a witch, I just like Halloween, and I thought that blondes look skinnier in black.

I have one thing in common with the emerging black nations of Africa: We both have voices, and we are discovering what we can do with them.

The piano keys are black and white but they sound like a million colors in your mind.

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.

We weren't pushing Black is beautiful. We just showed it.

Life's a choice: you can live in black and white, or you can live in colour. I'll take every shade of the rainbow and the gazillion in between!

I am the attorney general of the United States. But I am also a black man.

I wanted to show the history and strength of all kinds of black women. Working women, country women, urban women, great women in the history of the United States.

Just tell the truth, and they'll accuse you of writing black humor.

If you cross a pickle with a female deer...You get a dill-doe!

If you want to know who the oppressed minorities in America are, simply look at who gets their own shelf in the bookstore. A black shelf, a women's shelf, and a gay shelf.

[On being first black woman to earn a PhD in economics and first black woman admitted to Pennsylvania bar:] I never looked for anybody to hold the door open for me. I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down: because I knocked all of them down.