Black Quotes - Page 9

Our concept of beauty is taken from Hollywood, which is anti-black. We don't see ourselves as beautiful in most cases. Although we are naturally one of the most beautiful peoples out there, we don't see it. We don't get the point. Hollywood sets the standards.

Life is in color, but black and white is more realistic.

Too hard for MTV, not black enough for BET, just let me be.

Time will tell ... whether folks want to point and stare at the black woman filmmaker who made a certain kind of film, and pat her on the back, or if they want to actually roll up the sleeves and do a little bit of work so that there can be more of me coming through.

There's one more thing I want to say. It's a touchy subject. Black beauty. Black sensuality. We live in a culture where the beauty of black people isn't always as celebrated as other types. I'd like to help change that if I can!

Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight.

All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.

When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their soul!

Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first.

Instead of going to the gym, I dress in black - a lot more practical and much more fun.

Black men of Carthage, Ethiopia, of Timbuktu and Alexandria gave the likes of civilization to this world

The only difference is now more young black men are in the spotlight.

So Einstein was wrong when he said, "God does not play dice." Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.

Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.

No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion.

Black and white might be sufficient. But why deprive yourself of color.

So, to say Barack Obama is progress is saying that he's the first black person that is qualified to be president. That's not black progress. That's white progress.

I have a lot of looks but right now I'm really into grunge. Messy hair, black heels. I get Michelle Pfeiffer with it.

Now look at the crowd. We’ve got everybody here tonight: Black, white, Asian, Latinos—and guess what? President Obama says we can all stay! God Bless America!

The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.

I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous disease.

My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves.

Don't mess with me! I'm a black-belt!

A small speckled visitor Wearing a crimson cape Brighter than a cherry Smaller than a grape A polka-dotted someone Walking on my wall A black-hooded lady In a scarlet shawl.

There’s one thing about Black Sabbath which should not be understated: If Black Sabbath is missing any one of its members it’s no longer Black Sabbath.