Black Quotes - Page 64

I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it.

My dad was never one of those dads you could ask for a quarter if you saw a gumball machine. Instead he had one of those black American Express cards not available to general public. Gumball machines didn’t have slots for those.

There'll be a black lesbian in the White House before I'm James Bond.

I have compromised down the line. I've disliked it intensely in the old days when you were trying to talk race relations and they would not allow you to talk about the legitimacies of race relations. In the old days, you didn't talk about black, you talked about Eskimo or American Indian, and the American Indian was assumed not to be a problem area.

There were only two times in my life when I've actually felt down about things and gotten myself into a full mental mess. One of the times was in 1982. I had a horrible time for a few months and felt pretty desperate. Then again in 1984, for various reasons, not all of them within my control. Since then, I just wander in and out of black moods.

Prostitution, black marketeering, and informing on ones neighbors and friends all had such a deep-rooted tradition in Romania that there was a charming naturalness and innocence about it.

That hour o' night's black arch the keystane.

To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.

There are eyes half defiant, Half meek and compliant; Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm To bring us good or to work with harm.

Nothing is going to happen to you if you throw salt on the floor, stand under a ladder, or see eight black cats on the street.

I'm black because that's the way the world sees me.

It’s just what they are — they’re jokes…most jokes are about Jewish people, rednecks, black folks…I can’t determine what offends another person.

A flat black bug, that is London.

Newman's second law: Just when things look darkest, they go black.

Arizona has always been anti-black.

I like most kinds of music. So I haven't got a bag, as they say... except the big black one in the hall outside.

Books were my pass to personal freedom.

I always knew I'd be a millionaire by age thirty-two. In fact, I am going to be the richest black woman in America.

I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.

I wish that she had had a black loon because I don't think that Nina [Simone] did. I have always had - I've been very fortunate - a group of little old ladies that I love and who love me, and who turned and to whom I turn at different times.

We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.

Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy

Life just makes so much more sense with black framed glasses on.

If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.

I look at modeling as something I'm doing for black people in general.