Black Quotes - Page 83

The people who couldn't get out of New Orleans to escape the storm were predominantly Black.

We all have a large stake in preserving our democracy, but I maintain that those without power in our society, the black, the brown, the poor of all colors, have the largest stake not because we have the most to lose, but because we have worked the hardest, and given the most, for what we have achieved.

It always looks darkest just before it gets totally black.

My sin is the black spot which my bad act makes, seen against the disk of the Sun of Righteousness. Hence religion and sin come and go together.

I don't think I have written a poem when I was completely sober. But I have written a few good ones or a few bad ones under the hammer of a black hangover when I didn't know whether another drink or a blade would be the best thing.

Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote.

The man on the radio says Elvis Presley's died. We drove to Memphis, the sky was hard and black.

The film Black Hawk Down paints the Somali people as wild savages.

There's a black man inside of me just trying to make bail.

Quite frankly, I've always listened to the black side of the radio dial. Where I grew up, there was a lot of it and there was a lot of live music around.

I believe in freedom for everyone, not just the black man.

I always thought the best kind of sunglasses are the motorcycle helmets with the black plastic masks on them. That way, nobody can recognize the back of your head either.

I haven't done a great deal of it but this was a chance to do more and bring it to that part of the business and even more so, but the fact that it was a black superhero was really the catalyst to me.

They said the black oil wouldn't come ashore. Well, it is ashore. It's here to stay and it's going to keep coming.

I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish.

There was one awkward moment where a black man stood-up to ask a question and out of habit, Bush said 'Clemency denied.'

The trick generally is to break programs into pieces and have those pieces be individually testable and so then when you move on to the other pieces you treat it as a black box knowing that it either works or doesn't work.

In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.

Black bears rarely attack. But here's the thing. Sometimes they do. All bears are agile, cunning and immensely strong, and they are always hungry. If they want to kill you and eat you, they can, and pretty much whenever they want. That doesn't happen often, but - and here is the absolutely salient point - once would be enough.

At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.

So one of the things that happened with integration in the South is they found that the black teachers were much more educated than the white teachers.

Most black singers like to slow the word down and, and go directly to your heart. They're not interested in your ears, we just want to go directly to your heart.

Nothing is all good or all bad, nothing is black or white, everything is just messy and human and difficult.

No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.

The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings, and a fat white body with black spots running down it like a snowman's coal buttons. No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.