Black Quotes - Page 67

Oh, the self-importance of fading stars. Never mind, they will be black holes one day.

Colonialism has a bad reputation in the modern context, but Colonial Africa was a far better place for both black and white before the colonists gave up.

I remember being on a black-and-white set all day and then going out into daylight and being amazed by the colour.

In the sense that I also try to reflect the fullness of the black experience, I’m very much a jazz poet.

Did the poet use red to symbolize blood? Anger? Lust? Or is the wheelbarrow simply red because red sounded better than black?

But I think the possibility of a black and white society feeding each other's expertises, living harmoniously, will probably go along in fits and starts now but at least it has a great constitution now to back it up.

With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and disfiguration meet.

Has the God who made the white man and the black left any record declaring us a different species? Are we not sustained by the same power, supported by the same food. . . . And should we not then enjoy the same liberty. . .?

I didn't know it would be black," she murmured with a little smile. Horror flooded his face. "Oh, Christ!

The narrow path had opened up suddenly onto the edge of a great black lake. Perched atop a high mountain on the other side, its windows sparkling in the starry sky, was a vast castle with many turrets and towers.

You don’t understand — there are things worth dying for!

You are — truly your father’s son, Harry. . . .

I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year.

People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfeld next to me.

I'm pretty selective. I generally edit the contact sheets and then do work prints. Because I have my own lab and printers, I can afford the luxury of going through the contact sheets for black-and-white, making up work prints, seeing them big, and honing them down.

When Black Flag and DOA and all those bands were touring in the early 80s, it was kind of a forest and you just kind of got your way through it. Now it's like a six lane highway with Starbucks every twenty meters. That's just civilization.

The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass.

Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.

Stain my eyes as I may, on all sides all is black.

The stars are always up in the sky...then when it is perfectly black, they feel less vulnerable and out they come.

I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.

Being a black woman, I've often felt I've been judged by my sex and my race, and I have always known that it shouldn't hamper me.

I don't like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.

It's about you. If you win, it's you; if you lose, it's you. Black and white. Nowhere to hide.

Black Flag was formed in 1977. We first recorded in 1978.