Black Quotes - Page 69

My passion comes from the things that have historically happened to black people in Mississippi. I can honestly say that most of the things that I've accomplished in my life have come from my spirituality and my belief in God.

That is the Wasp, yes. But it was captured by Black Stache, and he’s coming for this ship now.” “And how do you know that?” asked Slank. “Did a seagull tell you?” This brought chuckles from the crew. Something like that, thought Peter.

Another head - and a black alpaca jacket and a serviette this time - to tell us coffee is ready. Not before it is time, too.

The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.

All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.

I imposed black; it still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around

Black power got to moving so fast that we miscalculated the fallout. I certainly have to take some of the responsibility of that; but there was no way we anticipated the response.

Life is never straightforward or emotionally black and white.

If you're black in this country, if you're a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican?

I'm trying to think overall. Some of our stories [Black Mirror], I think you're right in that they don't tend to have a message.

Go down to the Republican headquarters. They ain't got a single black working there. Not one.

You know how we'd get along better? If everybody'd just remember how we're all related. White, black, Asian, skin. No difference. All the bloodlines go back to that one old mama in Africa.

I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health.

I don't want to be known as the black model. I want to be recognized as Chanel Iman, a personality.

A Black Belt under the Nogueira Brothers is like saying I got a free toy in my happy meal

In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.

The Mexican revolution was a break with the past to recover the past. We were trying to deny we had an Indian and a black and a Spanish past. The Mexican Revolution accepted all heritages. It allowed Mexico to be mestizo.

If Lady Gaga is like an orange Bugatti Veyron, then I am like a black 1970 Chevelle.

I just felt as though I would never be happy again, and as if I had fallen into a big black hole.

Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.

Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic.

I feel so lucky that my high school was right in the middle of Denver, which is one of those sort of segregated towns, with black and white and Hispanic neighborhoods. But the school I went to was right in the middle of the whole thing.

The blackness of darkness, forever.

I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but of late it appears that some men are born slaves, and I regret that they are not black, so all the world might know them.

I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he had solitude to read. Unfortunately, tragically, like so many young black males, that solitude only came in prison.