Black Quotes - Page 82

In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee.

There's a class divide in black America that doesn't seem to trouble black Americans so much, but whites use it and exploit it. The progress of a few is allowed to stand for the progress of everyone. We can't afford that kind of disaffection at the moment.

Every day of my life I walk with the idea I am black no matter how successful I am.

Celluloid will be the next decade's black and white.

Racing does to white guys what movies do to black guys.

Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.

The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.

Black Power If the motive is good, and there are no other possibilities, then seen most deeply it [violence] is nonviolence, because its aim is to help others.

If you understand the Black Lives Matter movement, there's no central leadership of the movement. This is an organic, grassroots movement all around America.

I'm black, so, you know, I'm again with black folk, but it's a love that spills over to vanilla suburbs and red reservations and brown barrios and yellow slices.

When it comes to our precious poor children of all colors, maybe disproportionally in percentage black and white and red, but all colors, yellow as well as white, we need to push toward integrated schools.

Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.

The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina

They say they don't know when but a day is gonna come. When there won't be a moon and there won't be a sun. It will just go black. It will just go back to the way it was before.

I do have a favorite Zeppelin song, Larry, Black Dog.

I was always the only black in the movie theater, the only black in class, the only black in the library, the only black in the discotheque. I always felt observed and judged.

Scheherezade is easy; a little black dress is difficult.

I always took note of them, because I think if you're in the black or brown body, you're negotiating them all the time. It's like women taking note of sexism. It's a kind of incoherency that you are constantly negotiating.

I like making black and white films in natural surroundings, but I much prefer shooting a color film inside a studio where the colors are easier to control.

My favorite sound is definitely mules. If it was an instrument, it's really pingthe touch of the black keys of the piano.

What!? You tell people that, I won't get no more black movies?

A black Christian is like a black person with no memory.

I love black people, but I hate niggers.

Business is about belonging which means inclusion is the new black.

I'm wearing black leggings and a loose top festooned with a Menger sponge of empty pockets stitched out of smaller pockets and smaller still, almost down to the limits of visibility woven in freefall by hordes of tiny otaku spiders, I'm told, their genes programmed by an obsessive-compulsive sartorial topologist.