Black Quotes - Page 31

Profound sadness is always the result of an unhealthy condition of the body. ... We [should] say, 'I am sad; everything looks black to me; but external events are in no way responsible. It's my body that insists on reasoning. These are the opinions of my stomach.'

Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of.

Black is not a color.

We put stereotypes on ourselves - like, everybody does that. But I think it's just a little harder for black kids to just like, you know, be who they are.

You weigh how much you should criticize the President because hes black.

I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi.

I didn't realize, when I decided to be a comic, that a black person had never been allowed to stand flat-footed in America and talk to white folks. It never happened before.

In schools of theology Negroes are taught the interpretation of the Bible worked out by those who have justified segregation and winked at the economic debasement of the Negro at times almost to the point of starvation.

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

Most of life is grey, with a little tiny bit of black and white. We're always subject to what I call the compression industry, which is an attempt to compress a million shades of grey with a little bit of black and white to just a hundred, or to ten, or to one!

Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers.

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.

What right had they to make me suffer like that?

The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.

I'm like Johnny Cash. I only wear black.

Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.

I don't like perpetuating the stereotype of black males being drug dealers, and criminals.

I'm a black lady from the Lower East Side of New York. Not a lot intimidates me.

How can we teach our children to respect Black women if Black women don't respect Black women?

So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities.

Less is more when you do a bright, bold lip. Just draw on black liner and some mascara and you're good to go!

when michael jackson died i wonder if his life flashed before him and if it did, i wonder if he thought 'who's that little black kid singing my songs?!'

Whenever Black succeeds in assuming the initiative in maintaining it to a successful conclusion, the sporting spirit of the chess lover feels gratified, because it shows that the resources of the game are far from being exhausted.

A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for him, and setting it before him in black and white.