Black Quotes - Page 18

We''d like to be welcomed with open arms and open legs

I don't consider myself just a black man. I consider myself a brotha. I love my people.

A black belt is a white belt who never quits!

I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey.

I'm not interested in edges. I'm interested in the mass and color, the black and white. The edges happen because the forms get as quiet as they can be. I want the masses to perform. When I work with forms and colors, I get the edge.

When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.

Marcus Garvey was one of the first advocates of Black Power, and is still today the greatest spokesman ever to have been produced by the movement of Black Consciousness...He spoke to all Africans on the earth, whether they lived in Africa, South America, the West Indies or North America, and he made Blacks aware of their strength when united.

I think love keeps on changing every day. It’s not black and white and it’s definitely more than 50 shades of grey.

I was the first American citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having skin darkened by melanin. When you put it that way, it sounds like a foolish reason for fame. In a just and free society it would be foolish. That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black and a woman proves, I think, that our society is not yet either just or free.

It’s an odd thing, happiness. Some people take happiness from gold. Or black pearls. And some of us, far more fortunate, take their happiness from periwinkles.

The way I was taught, being black was a plus, always. Being a human being, being in America, and being black, all three were the greatest things that could happen to you. The combination was unbeatable.

I have one good characteristic: I'm a pessimist, so I always imagine the worst - always. To me, the future is a black hole.

I asked her if I was black or white. She replied "You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!

I am black or white, I'll never be grey in my life.

Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview.'

The devil is not as black as he is painted.

No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around.

Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.

All business is personal...Make your friends before you need them.

Black people still call me Prince. Sometimes I ask them, "Why do you call me Prince?" And people say, "Because you are a prince to us." Usually when they say that, you know my heart goes out and I have to say, "I don't mind your calling me that."

What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.

Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms.

Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.

I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.

Black holes result from God dividing the universe by zero.