Browsing Topic Best All Black Quotes

I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.

It isn’t a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that’s beautiful.

Yes?’ Joe Solomon sounded like someone with far better things to do. ‘Is there any homework?’ she asked, and the class turned instantly from shocked to irritated. (Never ask that question in a room full of girls who are all black belts in karate) ‘Yes,’ Solomon said, holding the door in the universal signal for get out. ‘Notice things.

But nothing is all black in nature.

Racist dermatologists think all black people have really bad skin.

Any style that Nike makes in all black, shoe, sweatshirt, onesie, doesn’t matter, I pretty much need to have.

What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.

Do you remember when we stood together on Blackfriars Bridge? he asked softly, and his eyes were like that night had been, all black and silver. Of course I remember. It was the moment I first knew I loved you, Jem said. I will make you a promise. Every year, Tessa, on one day, I will meet you on that bridge. I will come from the Silent City and I will meet you, and we will be together, if only for an hour. But you must tell no one.

Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it’s grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind social changes in the United States. And why has there never been an all-black daytime network soap? It would probably blow the white soaps off the map.

I’m against an all-white anything or an all-black anything.

I know now it’s a hashtag and people have various feelings about it, but really if you look at all black art, even in hip-hop, it’s all about that I exist and these are my feelings and this is what I feel about the world. It’s always been an undercurrent.

If you think about black art, all black art, whether it’s Invisible Man or whether it’s James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Zora Hurston, or Richard Wright, they all deal with elements of identity and trying to humanize our experience and our struggle in the world where people have been indifferent to who we are and what we are. It’s basically just saying that our lives have meaning.

I’m an avid hockey fan and I’ve been playing for about 17 years, and somebody recently told me that the first organized hockey teams in Canada were all black. Telling those stories would be cool.

We’re ready for a real black President – someone like Jay-Z. Obama’s fine, just not all black. He’s our gateway Negro.

I played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, firemen’s fairs, policemen’s balls, in front of supermarkets, bar mitzvahs, weddings, drive-in theaters. I’d seen it all before I ever walked into a recording studio.

I’ve never been an all-black girl. I like pinks and blues and greens. If you come over to my closet, you’ll be able to find a rainbow of things to wear.

I instinctively dress a bit tougher because I’ve spent a lot of time in the U.S. and I realised there was a certain image projected of me here. I’ve always been an absolute rebel. When I was in my teen years I had piercings and wore all black.

Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.

I don’t like the fact that most black people or black comedians have to present themselves in a flamboyant way. It’s good if you can do that, but I don’t like to think that’s the way all black comedians are. I’m not that type.

You know, you walk through this hotel, you’re not going to see all white people; you’re not going to see all black people; you’re going to see what the world looks like. I promised myself that if I ever got an opportunity where I would be able to make a difference and have a say, that I would want to deliver [that] message [of inclusivity].

People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

Let all Black Poets die as trumpets,And be buried in the dust of marching feet.

A bear! A bear! All black and brown and covered in hair!

When I was younger, living in an all-black neighborhood the other kids thought I was better than them because of my light skin and straight hair. Then we moved to an all-white neighborhood and that was a culture shock … I’d been used to being around all black kids.

Rock and roll came in and changed my life and changed the whole music scene forever, and then I grew to love R&B and Motown and all black music, gospel music. But I never dismiss any form of music. I listen to everything.

I’m not interested in making all-black films – I come from a very diverse culture, I want to work with every type of person. I work a lot with women executives because they seem to be a lot more open minded about that and a lot more progressive in that way.

We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.

We’re more Christian than the Pope. And, I mean, that’s not our religion. We pray to the Gods of our conquerors… all black and brown people.

I remember watching Mike [Michael Jordan]. I remember him having a royal blue blazer and all black t-shirt and he came out of a blue Corvette. That was dope to us. We were like, ‘Yo, Michael killed today.’ He didn’t even talk to the media and walked straight into the arena. Everyday’s like Mike.

Just wearing all black comes from Johnny Cash. I’m on the road so much that if I wear all black my clothes never get dirty. You can’t tell if I’ve worn the same shirt twice.

Part-black generally means all-black in Americans’ minds. Just as part-Asian or part-Hispanic or part-anything-else usually puts individuals in those minority-groups’ camps.

I didn’t really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn’t see how it was possible not to like me!

Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn’t white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.

Can’t be all men, can’t be all white, can’t be all black, can’t be all straight. [It has] got to be a wide range of people. Can’t be all people of one faith group. We need diversity so we can have the views of all Americans reflected in congressional outcomes.

If you have an all-white neighborhood you don’t call it a segregated neighborhood. But you call an all-black neighborhood a segregated neighborhood. And why? Because the segregated neighborhood is the one that’s controlled by the ou – from the outside by others, but a separate neighborhood is a neighborhood that is independent, it’s equal, it can do – it can stand on its own two feet, such as the neighborhood. It’s an independent, free neighborhood, free community.