Black Quotes - Page 40

Our bodies are garbage heaps: we collect experience, and from the decomposition of the thrown-out eggshells, spinach leaves, coffee grinds, and old steak bones out of our minds come nitrogen, heat, and very fertile soil. Out of this fertile soil bloom our poems and stories. But this does not come all at once. It takes time. Continue to turn over and over the organic details of your life until some of them fall through the garbage of discursive thoughts to the solid ground of black soil.

Remember that you are a Black Swan.

Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.

God is on my side, and that's all I need. I get up in the morning, I pray to God. I don't pray to the president, the governor, the mayor, no black caucus, no this and that. I pray to God, and that's the end of it.

Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.

This time, we went up to Big Bear for 3-4 weeks and sequestered ourselves writing this album [ "The Black Crown"].

We believe that black holes collapse to rings hitting very fast. If you follow through the ring you don't die. The mathematics says you fall straight through, perhaps to another universe.

We were also fortunate enough to engage in our service a Canadian Frenchmen, who had been with the Chayenne Indians on the Black mountains, and last summer descended thence by the Little Missouri.

I usually just wear black so my shoes and my socks are my rays of sunshine.

Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black.

Go to work! Go to work in the morn of a new creation... until you have... reached the height of self-progress, and from that pinnacle bestow upon the world a civilization of your own.

The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.

The most unprotected person in America is the black woman.

Let's stop all of this foolishness and come together as a people or we will deserve the chastisement of God that is about to come down. Especially on the rich and the professional well-educated Black person who could make a way in the desert for our people, but you're so tied to your slavemasters and their children. You don't want to leave them nor do you want to lead your people into doing something for self. We're at the end of it now.

They don't make red noses to fit black people. I have a wide nose like a Volkswagen and I have never had a red nose that fitted me.

Seeing a black transgender woman embracing and loving everything about herself might be inspiring to some other folks.

Many of us in Nashville accepted nonviolence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.

Mass incarceration is a policy that's kind of built up over the last four decades and it's destroyed families and communities, and something we need to change. And it's fallen disproportionally on black and brown communities, especially black communities, and it's kind of a manifestation of structural racism.

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!!

There's a lot of difference between being well known and being notorious and the black paintings didn't make me well known - they made me notorious.

I guess I'm the Black Death,' he said slowly. 'I don't seem to bring people happiness any more.

I bring terror like Stephen King, A black Casanova, runnin niggaz over like Christine

Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it's show business. You know, we all got rhythm.

I understand that life is not black and white, everything has a different hand, lots of them, I act according to the situation.