Black Quotes - Page 14

The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre.

One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.

Nobody black or white who really believes in democracy can stand aside now; everybody's got to stand up and be counted.

I don't suppose I can wear the flamingo tie," he said as he pulled on black socks. "It's a bit festive, given the occasion," I responded. "Can't wear it to the opera," said the Colonel, almost smiling. "Can't wear it to a funeral. Can't use it to hang myself. It's a bit useless, as ties go." I gave him a tie.

My mother worshipped at the alter of accessories and I got the bug. She always said, if you have a good, little, simple black dress and you have different accessories, you can have 27 different outfits.

Liberalism Has Nearly Destroyed Black America, And Now It’s Time For Black America To Return The Favor.

Colour is everything, black and white is more.

There are times when one cannot accept facts for fear of shattering one's being. As I listened to Ian's news, all of Digit's life, since my first meeting with him as a playful little ball of black fluff ten years earlier, passed through my mind. From that moment on, I came to live within an insulated part of myself.

If the Black woman is a queen, and I believe that she is, why would I settle for something less than royal?

Black scientists and technicians, many of them women, used cells from a black woman to help save the lives of millions of Americans, most of them white. And they did so on the same campus—and at the very same time—that state officials were conducting the infamous Tuskegee syphilis studies.

I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won

The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid. In Washington, D.C., our nation’s capitol, it is estimated that three out of four young black men (and nearly all those in the poorest neighborhoods) can expect to serve time in prison.

...the evil system of colonialism and imperialism arose and throve with the enslavement of Negroes and the trade in Negroes, and it will surely come to its end with the complete emancipation of the Black people.

It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.

Some people never learn the art of compromise. Everything is either black or white. They do no recognize, or will not concede, that the equally important color gray is a mixture of black and white.

And when I was angry, when I was younger, I was in a cocoon. Now I'm a beautiful, black butterfly.

I write to tell the truth about the black condition as I see it. Therefore, I write to offer a black woman's view of the world.

Black art has always existed. It just hasn't been looked for in the right places.

I applied for a scholarship to Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. I knew I was good enough, but they turned me down. And it took me about six months to realize it was because I was black. I never really got over that jolt of racism at the time.

If intelligence were a television set, it would be an early black-and-white model with poor reception, so that much of the picture was gray and the figures on the screen were snowy and indistinct. You could fiddle with the knobs all you wanted, but unless you were careful, what you would see often depended more on what you expected or hoped to see than on what was really there.

If travel has momentum and wants to stay in motion, as I mentioned earlier, then adventure has the gravitational pull of a black hole. The more you do it, the more you find a way to keep doing it.

Salt is the difference between eating in Technicolor and eating in black and white.

We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.

If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.

A lot of people don't want to feel anti-black by being opposed to Obama.