Black Quotes - Page 46

There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up. [...] The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. [...] To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.

I serve black tea, which I call Froggy tea. And I have green teas and all sorts of nice teas. I'm serving tea all the time.

I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.

And you who sought for magic in your youth but desire it not in your age, know that there is a blindness of spirit which comes from age, more black than the blindness of eye, making a darkness about you across which nothing may be seen, or felt, or known, or in any way apprehended.

I know that I'm freer as a hip-hopper than as an executive. Even as a black man, I enjoy more freedom as a hip-hopper than as a black man. That, s controversial to say, but it's the truth.

I look most like myself... when I'm wearing my black, nerdy engineering glasses.

Republican Party hasn't been black friendly over the many centuries in this country.

I go to castings and see several black and Asian girls, then I get to the show and look around there's just me and maybe one other coloured face.

Leave it up to me while I be livin' proof, To kick the truth to the young black youth.

The only thing I change mainly is my sneakers. I love sneakers. But everything's sort of black or jeans. Jeans, always.

I have always liked black and white! It is simple and the colour of the piano.

Any woman who has a great deal to offer the world is in trouble. And if she's a black woman, seh's in deep trouble.

There's a man outside with a big black mustache. - Tell him I've got one.

Now I began to understand art as a kind of black box the reader enters. He enters in one state of mind and exits in another. The writer gets no points just because what's inside the box bears some linear resemblance to "real life" -- he can put whatever he wants in there. What's important is that something undeniable and nontrivial happens to the reader between entry and exit.

The only good produced by the disappearance of Africville was the appearance of a conscious black nationalism … In this regard, Consecrated Ground is the heir of fierce, vengeful, and epic activism.

Let me state here and now that the black woman in America can justly be described as a 'slave of a slave.

I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn’t have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me.

A bright eye indicates curiosity; a black eye, too much.

In college I was one of six males who auditioned for five male roles in a comedy play. I was the one rejected. At that moment I made up my mind never to place myself at the mercy of some pompous, goateed, black-turtleneck-shirted "should I yay him or nay him?" pantywaist ever again.

My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.

Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the deadly virtues plague my death!

The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.

Black culture is a fight. We want to hold on to what we are, but sometimes the things that we are can be totally negative. You have to think: can't we try something new and not be seen as suspect?

I once had an extraordinary experience with former prime minister Ted Heath. Both of his eyes, including the whites, turned jet black and I seemed to be looking into two black holes.

A lot of black men have problems being emotionally vulnerable because of the boundaries and parameters that have been put onto them by society.