Black Quotes - Page 15

Be black or white with no shades of gray. In other words, don't be a nagging mother.

The data is going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic indicator category.

Life is a million different dots making one gigantic picture. And maybe the big picture is nice, maybe it's amazing, but if you're standing with your face pressed up against a bunch of black dots, it's really hard to tell.

Whenever there is discussion, I make it clear that I do not want any grey zones, just black and white.

There is no shame in black beauty.

A very good drink they call Chaube that is almost as black as ink and very good in illness, especially of the stomach. This they drink in the morning early in the open places before everybody, without any fear or regard, out of clay or China cups, as hot as they can, sipping it a little at a time.

You want to believe in black and white, good and evil, heroes that are truly heroic, villains that are just plain bad, but I've learned in the past year that things are rarely so simple. The good guys can do some truly awful things, and the bad guys can sometimes surprise the heck out of you.

I opened fire when the whole windshield was black with the enemy . . . at minimum range . . . it doesn't matter what your angle is to him or whether you are in a turn or any other maneuver.

The Internet is not a place. It’s a great void, a black hole, from which you can call up an incredible amount of disorganized information.

I am the unarmed black kid who maybe needed a hand, but instead was given a bullet.

When you fall into a black hole you will be literally spaghettified.

From the cab stepped a tall old man. Black raincoat and hat and a battered valise. He paid the driver, then turned and stood motionless, staring at the house. The cab pulled away and rounded the corner of Thirty-sixty Street. Kinderman quickly pulled out to follow. As he turned the corner, he noticed that the tall old man hadn't moved but was standing under the streetlight glow, in mist, like a melancholy traveler frozen in time.

There's something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery.

Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.

The eye should learn to listen before it looks.

Black and white can show how something is. Color adds how it is, imbued with temperatures and humidities of experience.

Hillary Clinton could say she was a woman and running for president. And Sarah Palin could say she was a woman and running for vice-president. But Obama couldn't say, 'I'm black and I'm running for president.' It couldn't come out of his mouth. He couldn't say that because, if he did, he'd lose votes.

Listen, we've got one little ol' black president, and white folks are upset, but they've had 43.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

Well everyone's a world class ground fighter until they get a punch to the face. So that's how I deal with all these ground fighters like everyone else. I hit 'em in the head and there goes your F**king black belt.

I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.

I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.

I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage. Our history will be what we make it. And if there are any historians about fifty or a hundred years from now, and there should be preserved the kinescopes for one week of all three networks, they will there find recorded in black and white, or color, evidence of decadence, escapism and insulation from the realities of the world in which we live.

The cops drive by to do some more good deeds A young black male spits a sunflower seed in the air.