Black Quotes - Page 4

The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the 'Negro's' reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images.

Every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you'll never get back.

I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

At this time I'd like to say a few words especially to my sisters: SISTERS. BLACK PEOPLE WILL NEVER BE FREE UNLESS BLACK WOMEN PARTICIPATE IN EVERY ASPECT OF OUR STRUGGLE, ON EVERY LEVEL OF OUR STRUGGLE.

When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black.

Black Consciousness therefore takes cognizance of the deliberateness of God's plan in creating Black people black.

You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.

Doesn't the world inside a black and white photograph seem more real? It's because the real world is losing its color

I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren't many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.

People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

The Marines don't have any race problems. They treat everybody like they're black.

One of my favorite stories was Black Orchid, because it was so different from all the others. I especially enjoyed dancing the Charleston. I have always been keen on dancing.

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.

Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.

Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.

Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.

Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, becausetime has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.

I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people.

When I was perceived as a black man I became a threat to public safety. When I was dressed as myself, it was my safety that was threatened.

The empowerment of black women constitutes the empowerment of our entire community.

Just wearing all black comes from Johnny Cash. I'm on the road so much that if I wear all black my clothes never get dirty. You can't tell if I've worn the same shirt twice.

Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth.

Only the BLACK WOMAN can say 'when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me.'

Never give in, never back down.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.