Black Quotes - Page 63

Naturally we need black men to give this movie serious credibility.

Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament.

Christmas is the season when you buy this year's gifts with next year's money.

So what you do [under apartheid system] is you convince black people that the reason they are being oppressed is because there are some within their community who just can't behave. And if only they could behave, then everyone else would have more freedoms and liberties, which, of course, is not true.

Everybody knows there is no such thing as normal. There is no black-and-white definition of normal. Normal is subjective. There's only a messy, inconsistent, silly, hopeful version of how we feel most at home in our lives.

The most interesting thing about being alive is that there is no black and white; there are many shades of gray.

How did we suddenly become entranced with gangster culture? I saw it this morning on campus. When did the black community say we should all look like criminals?

Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force.

The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.

In the deep night of metaphysics, all cats look black.

Let’s just say it’s not a stereotype that Black women are less submissive and harder to deal with. Being around them Black women made me really miss my wife.

Specifically for black women, our images and our bodies in the media and in history have been so hypersexualized.

When you spend your life acting and being other people, as opposed to being the one person that you are, you learn that life is gray sometimes, not black and white. That what you thought was true isn't necessarily true if you switch sides.

The way I was brought up by my parents and guided through my football life by the influences of various managers means that in some ways I am black and white.

The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.

I was born in Detroit, in an all black neighborhood.

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.

What a paragon of virtue you are, gunslinger!" the man in black laughed.

Everybody has their black moments.

Illegal immigrants are beginning to comprise a black market class of workers in our society, jeopardizing the financial health of companies which play by the rules, while themselves vulnerable to the exploitation by those willing to take advantage of their illegal status.

I like the black and white movies on AMC.

If black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people?

I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black.

I am grateful for what I call well-spent moments: Making a tuna fish sandwich with the works. Taking at least a half hour to eat it outside. Ironing my vintage tea towels while watching old black-and-white film noir movies and sipping one martini with extra olives - a quirky combination, but it works.

You would never expect a black woman to be the hero.