Black Quotes - Page 22

I fully recognize and appreciate the many substantial contributions of black Americans and other minorities to the creation and preservation and development of our great nation

Black Power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.

I decided to live as an individual and as I grew older, and thought more, and read more and experienced more, my views became more conservative. But my group is liberal. Not only that, they say, 'If you're not liberal and not a Democrat, you're not black. If you're conservative, you're a sellout.' Here, then, I'm living with that kind of a pressure against my individuality.

In black and white you suggest, in color you state.

Blackmail is more effective than bribery.

I see the world for what it is, beyond the white and the black.

The God's tropical...ladies call me 'Black Fruit Punch.'

the only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your mouth and dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not are

When I grew up, you wanted to look like Marlene Dietrich, Betty Grable. Fortunately, I didn't know that I really wanted to look like Lena Horne. When I grew up... black stars were stigmatized. Nobody wanted to look like Lena Horne.

What happens to Black Folks today, happens to White Folks tomorrow.

The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have conserved their racial purity by a lack of affinity with washing, have seen their patch invaded by a different kind of slave: The Portuguese. the black is indolent and fanciful, he spends his money on frivolity and drink; the European comes from a tradition of working and saving which follows him to this corner of America and drives him to get ahead.

You have to start looking in the mirror and saying, 'this is who I am, this is what I am and this is how I'm going to be' and start demanding more from yourself. In spite of everything that this system has thrown at us, we still have to live at the end of the day. We still have to find purpose and find ways to prosper and make a profit so you have to find ways to stand on your own two feet and fulfill your potential as a black man or black woman on this planet no matter how marginalized or oppressed you may be.

You are at home when you're at a Black Veil Brides concert.

It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are.

Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.

My life is a black hole of boredom and despair." "So basically you've been doing homework." "Like I said, black hole.

No matter how much you've worked so hard to be as successful as you are, there will always be those ignorant haters who don't understand.

You must begin to define yourself. You must begin to define your Black heritage.

You showed me everything was black cause my eyes were closed.

Everything isn't black and white, but for me it might as well be.

Because when you unite, that is the power of God, you know. God love Love, which is unity. So when you unite, you get the whole power of God. That's what him want. Until Black people unite...if the Black people don't unite, the world, no one, no one can live good.

There are too many black players. Italy has no dignity, no pride.

One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

Trying to find my flaws is like trying to find a black person at one of our concerts

South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white.