Black Quotes - Page 96

Right now I'd like all my troubles to stand in front of me in a straight line, and one by one I'd give each a black eye.

When I cook him dinner and I burn it black, he better say hmmm, I like it like that.

Depression - that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction - had over the years worked itself out in Charlotte's life in a curious pattern. Its onset was often imperceptible: like an assiduous housekeeper locking up a rambling mansion, it noiselessly went about and turned off, one by one, the mind's thousand small accesses to pleasure.

Oh God, Mae," said Jamie in a hollow voice, descending the stairs. "I will never drink again. I'm only seeing in black and white. My arms feel all floppy, like flightless wings. I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror and I looked like a very sad penguin.

Everybody is different. I can think of three black men I've dated and they couldn't be more different from each other.

People make jokes about how black people are the first ones to be killed off.

By holding to the first woman, the first black, the first homosexual, the first transgender, the first native American, the first whatever, there is also something else more hideous that is woven into this intricate web of deceit, and that is the built-in excuse to why they might or will fail. It's because America is unjust. When you have the first woman to do something, the media questions, "Why haven't there been more?" Well, America is unfair, unjust, bigoted, sexist, and misogynistic.

Better have a black face than be worried about black deeds.

Regardless of how black the page, he had always managed to turn it and move on to a new chapter in his life.

I love going to black churches, and I love some of these black preachers. The best preacher I ever saw in my life was a 93-year-old in a black church in Hamilton, Virginia. What a preacher!

In Sacramento, my brown was not halfway between black and white. On the leafy streets, on the east side of town, where my family lived, where Asians did not live, where Negroes did not live, my family's Mexican shades passed as various.

If comics are modern mythology, then black participation and representation is crucial.

And, for example, like, when you're having the conversation with your child about getting their driver's license. Well, a white family - their biggest fear is just that you're driving safely and that they're minding the rules of the road, whereas a black family - their biggest fear is that their child is going to get pulled over and treated unfairly for a reason that they won't understand.

There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.

Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.

The new Black doesn't blame other races for our issues.

The outside world is black and white with only one color dead.

I don't do Twitter, Facebook; none of that. My email I do from my Blackberry or my iPhone.

What does it mean to be too black for Hollywood? It's self-explanatory. Hollywood has certain kinds of blacks that they like.

I never thought I could write anything or do a show sober, ever. But I did the Black Sabbath shows sober, and it was so much better fun for me, and everybody.

I love what the church offers to us as a culture - black people in particular. We would be nowhere without the black church.

I am a product of every other black woman before me who has done or said anything worthwhile. Recognizing that I am part of history is what allows me to soar.

In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours.

The physician knows that his little black bag can carry him only so far and that the body's own healing system is the main resource.

It would certainly would be great to see more films featuring the black family and showing that we are capable of having that unit strong and present and beautiful, because that's so much of who we really are.