Black Quotes - Page 72

Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn't have each other you had nothing.

I really think the range of emotions and perceptions I have had access to as a black person and as a female person are greater than those of people who are neither.... So it seems to me that my world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger.

Anything I have ever learned of any consequence, I have learned from Black people. I have never been bored by any Black person, ever.

Fifty-five crystal spheres geared to God's crankshaft is my idea of a satisfying universe. I can't think of anything more trivial than quarks, quasars, big bangs and black holes.

I love black dresses. I think everyone should own a lot, but black dresses don't sell online because on the computer they don't read like anything.

No, nothing can change my world --Ichigo Kurosaki, Black Moon Rising

In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus.

Share what you do profusely, because it will be remixed by others into something new, rich and strange.

Stanley Kubrick went with his gut feeling: he directed 'Dr. Strangelove' as a black comedy. The film is routinely described as a masterpiece.

While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level it is often a claim- or arrogation- of power to stifle the autonomy of others.

Have you ever hung a piece of black velvet behind you and looked at yourself in the mirror? We are each of us quite alone, and that's what I try to paint.

Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light.

Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence.

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

I went to an historically black college where we're always told that there's limitation. And so I'm happy to represent for black colleges.

We're not as materialistic and income-tax conscious as we think. At the moment our superstitions are tucked away, but come out sometimes in strange ways sex crimes, black masses.

When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.

Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences.

There's something really unique about Orphan Black is that it has a lot of female leads, so it's about a lot of women's stories, but it's not women’s stories in terms of trying to find a guy or keep a guy; it's about entirely other things.

South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation.

Large men in black plate mail with red cloaks and plumes don't sneak worth a damn.

All you need to understand is that the officer carries with him the power of the American state and the weight of an American legacy, and they necessitate that of the bodies destroyed every year, some wild and disproportionate number of them will be black.

Every time you enter into a job it's a whole new universe. There's a new language with a new power structure. If you are in an all Black cast its a different dynamic, the same with an all male cast or a crew that is mainly women.

We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. The red-winged blackbird flies in us.

Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that’s why people gravitate to that so much.