Black Quotes - Page 23

As long as you like me the best. And you think I’m good-looking—sort of. I’m prepared to be annoyingly persistent.

The first thing you must do is forget that I'm Black. Second, you must never forget that I'm Black.

1-2 out of every 100 students reach Black Belt and of those only 1 out of every 1,000 achieves his 2nd Dan

Part of the history of black people in the western hemisphere, in some ways, has been fleeing from this notion that they were black. So I can represent an ideal, and with that, you can demonstrate that there is nothing to be afraid of, nothing to run from, and that, in fact, a good deal of beauty that resides there.

The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.

One of the worst things that happened to black people in America historically is integration. People ask me why I say that and I tell them it's because we gave up all of our control.

The greatest percentage of poverty is found in female-headed households. Over 70 percent of female-headed households are poor. A large percentage of poor people are children (17 percent); fully 85 percent of black children living in poverty reside in a female-headed household.

The Lighthouse was then a silvery, misty-looking tower with a yellow eye, that opened suddenly, and softly in the evening. Now— James looked at the Lighthouse. He could see the white-washed rocks; the tower, stark and straight; he could see that it was barred with black and white; he could see windows in it; he could even see washing spread on the rocks to dry. So that was the Lighthouse, was it? No, the other was also the Lighthouse. For nothing was simply one thing. The other Lighthouse was true too.

I thought Black Friday was when everyone puts on blackface and steals children from Wal-Mart.

As a black man, I have to respect myself and have nice things. As a man in general.

I believe that the essence of photography is black and white. Color is but a deviance.

Black men should be with Black women. And they should love and honor them.

Puerto Ricans are many colors - we are Spanish, we're French, we're Thai, Indian, we're almost black, some of us.

I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a white face will have a black mind.

One puts on black robes to scare the hell out of white people, while the other puts on white robes to scare the hell out of blacks.

Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom.

You got 3 things going against you: you're good, you're left-handed, and you're black

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

One ought to be against racism and sexism because they are wrong, not because one is black or one is female.

To begin at the beginning: It is a spring moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black.

Why black and white? Because color can be too demanding.

Black has depth.. you can go into it.. And you start seeing what you're afraid of. You start seeing what you love, and it becomes like a dream.

In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that's kind of natural for anyone who's just embraced Islam - or any religion - as a convert. It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.

Punch a black belt in the face, he becomes a brown belt. Punch him again, purple.