166 quotes found
“I'll stop wearing black when they invent a darker color.”
“Every nation is part of the history we inherit, blacks and whites, slaves and gods; we have no other option, embracing each other.”
“I want you to be my black vulture:forever monogamous!”
“Oh, hey, kettle, Im pot and wow, youre black. - Owen”
“What is it about humans that make us so prone to prejudice?Blue arches one of his unnaturally colored eyebrows and looks up to meet my gaze. If we didnt form prejudices, we wouldnt be learning from...”
“You don't have to be a certain thing to be cool. If you're white, you don't have to act black or whatever. Just be you and know who you are.”
“I like black because it is a vacant space.”
“It used to be that the black comic figure had to have this bravado and always showed strength.”
“In the public, it seems to be painted that when minorities get pregnant, they need to get abortions, especially when it comes to teen pregnancy. It's like, when black girls are pregnant, it's like ...”
“I was a big fan of black gospel. As a kid, there were black groups I sang with from my teen years to my early 20s.”
“I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.”
“I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only ide...”
“Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.”
“But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?”
“When you're 8 years old, and you've become subconsciously familiar with the layout and design of Black Sparrow books, and you know the difference between Miles Davis and John Coltrane, something is...”
“Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had, are sort of insulted that the civil rights movement is being hijacked - the rhetoric of the civi...”
“Faith is the black person's federal reserve system.”
“If you look at shows like 'Def Comedy Jam' in its heyday, there were so many really funny, talented black comics that never would have gotten on that show because they just weren't doing comedy tha...”
“Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.”
“Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.”
