Black Quotes - Page 30

It means 'Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234'.

Because I am a one-legged, black, short, woman I had to spend every day of my life pushing against what society told me I should be. I had to sell my value every day of my life. Confidence is what enables us to push back on reality. Once you get good at that, you can use it to live your joy.

In Harlem, I got all my black friends. But when I go downtown, I got black, white, Asian, Indian friends. There's no borders, no barriers.

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

When black women stick together, we are the most powerful force in the universe.

I know that statistically, it has been proven that there is a tremendous amount of black on black crime within the inner cities.

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.

Maybe the only thing that hints at a sense of Time is rhythm; not the recurrent beats of the rhythm but the gap between two such beats, the gray gap between black beats: the Tender Interval.

One of the misconceptions about BlackBerry is that it's your parents' smartphone.

To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.

Stop being so… optimistic. It’s getting on my nerves.

As a black person I am no stranger to prejudice. But the truth is that in the political world I have been far more often discriminated against because I am a woman than because I am black.

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.

Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its shiny, patent-leather finish and its red hourglass trademark. But the poor thing has the fatal misfortune of possessing enormously too much power for its size. So everybody kills it on sight.

If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz.

Let's just shoot in black and white. Don't explain why. Have no reason for it. Just do it because it's interesting.

I find it difficult to say I'm black first and a woman second or vice versa. I can't make that kind of distinction. Amongst Aboriginal women I do my best to raise their consciousness both as women and as Aboriginals.

Poetry is the plough that turns up time in such a way that the abyssal strata of time, its black earth, appear on the surface.

Audiences in London called me the girl with the black cherry eyes.

We live in a world where black humanity is a relatively new idea.

It appears that there is a genocidal plan against Black people.

The enemy has always been able to point the finger of suspicion and/or guilt to Black leaders that they are enriching themselves at the expense of the people.

I'm a 3rd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do and 2nd degree in karate, and I'm a licensed bodyguard.

If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.

They that are against Superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I will wear all colours but black, then am I superstitious in not wearing black.