Black Quotes
309 quotes
"I don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side."
"I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas."
"The darkness has ink eyes, and if you stare long enough, you’re going to see it blink black. That’s the moment to start writing."
"I had a dream about you. Our relationship faded from red to white, and somewhere in the middle, in the pink zone, I told you I loved you and you returned it. However, at white, our relationship went black and I sought red in the arms of another woman."
"Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black."
"My acquaintances aren’t worth the aqua I drink after they leave me thirsting for something more meaningful. I don’t want refillable relationships—I want connections so deep they are black abysses."
"My past is black and my future is blank. My only canvas is the present. The best color to paint with is love."
"I curse in cursive. It's hard to read and harder take. But if you take it black, like coffee, then at least it may wake you up to the realities of life."
"Think of what starlight And lamplight would lack Diamonds and fireflies If they couldn’t lean against Black. . . ."
"I see black light (his last words)"
"Whose little boy are you?"
"Color is the overpowering of black; white – the final victory over black."
"Little girl, you could wrap my cock in duct tape, and I'll still make you see God."
"I don't think I blushed once in my entire life before I met you," I say."There will be a lot of things your body never did before you met me," he brags unabashedly."
"She may be dressed in black from head to toe, but she is still the brightest thing in my universe."
"A black hole holds all the colors of the universe."
"Black as the night.Black as the depths.Black as your heart.Where your hatred's at rest."
"Even when your life is full of color, you still need to be reminded that things come in black and white."
"Evan Lucien, if it is my last act upon this Earth," he says, his eyes intense and shadowed in the lantern light, "I will make you come."
"I don't like the way people cherish the ghetto, as if it’s some royal palace, or kingdom. I also don't like the way people treat each other in the ghetto. It is really hard to find love, trust, and respect. You don't find too many people that want to do better for themselves in the ghetto because so many people seem to be satisfied with where they're at."
"Why do you feel so powerless? Go spend an hour with ants. Each of those black specks you see is a life. One whole life that you can save, take, or affect in some way. You have the power to make so many lives better. It is within you. Don’t lose sight of that."
"Western funerals: black hearses, and black horses, and fast-fading flowers. Why should black be the colour of death? Why not the colours of a sunset?"
"Things are always either black or white. The grey in between is only a confusion."
"All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide;but a hidden star can still be smiling at night's black spell on darkness, beguiling"
"Let my toes teach the shore how to feel a tranquil lifethrough the wetness of sands Let my heart latch the doorof blackness, as all my pain now blue sky understands"
"She was Black before it was fashionable to be Black."
"The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go"
"You are not white,but a rainbow of colors.You are not black,but golden.You are not just a nationality,but a citizen of the world.You are not just for the right or left,but for what is right over the wrong.You are not just rich or poor,but always wealthy in the mind and heart.You are not perfect, but flawed.You are flawed, but you are just.You may just be conscious human,but you are also a magnificentreflection of God."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"Eventually, some black thinkers believe, this "separation" may be the shortest route to an authentic communication at some future date when blacks and whites can enter into encounters in which they truly speak as equals and in which the white man will no longer load every phrase with unconscious suggestions that he has something to "concede" to black men or that he wants to help black men "overcome" their blackness."
"I cannot believe the path to victory lies in staining our souls so black we become indistinguishable from those we fight."
"...anyone still attempting to argue that Ebonics is a problem for black students or that it is somehow connected to a lack of intelligence or lack of desire to achieve is about as useful as a Betamax video cassette player, and it's time for those folks to be retired, be they teachers, administrators, or community leaders, so the rest of us can try to do some real work in the service of equal access for black students and all students. (15)"
Adam J. Banks, Digital Griots: African American Rhetoric in a Multimedia Age
"A world full of "certainties"All the plans, all the vanities.Where black covers the whiteSuited in "confidence"- the constant fight.A million roads I dream to takeOne destination, knowing not I turn where.A green veil covers for two years, some two decades.But the "plan" awaits, new roads to make.I pant, I struggle, I do my best While they say,"You are, dear, but so inadequate"."
"Black and white is mix of toughest simplicity and easiest complexity."
"Black and white is salt and pepper of colors, for life tastes bland without them."
"Black and white is as if phoenix of colors has eloped into opacity."
"Black and white is heaviest of vibrant and at the same time lightest of achromatic."
"Black and white is refuge of colors from their own nullity."
"Black and white seems a journey into space which is destined back to earth."
"Black and white, oldest of the vintages, newest of the last season."
"Black and white, severally incomplete and at the same time completely several."
"Black and white, vacuum of cosmos vis-à-vis occupancy of skies."
"It is early, early morning. It's that time when it's still dark but you know the day is coming. Blue is bleeding through black. Stars are dying."
"Radical Edwards's profile? He's a seven-foot tall ex-basketball pro hindu guru drag-queen alien.-Jet Black, from the Cowboy Bebop anime script"
"His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin."
"White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there has been a steady undercurrent of mutual admiration, an intermingling of cultures unheard of in any other American city, South or North; although there has prevailed a most joyous and fascinating interface, black anger and white fear has persisted, providing the ongoing, ostensibly integrated fete champetre with volatile and sometimes violent idiosyncrasies."
"19. Those who are the happiest are not necessarily those for whom life has been easiest. Emotional stability results from an attitude. It is refusing to yield to depression and fear, even when black clouds float overhead. It is improving that which can be improved and accepting that which is inevitable."
James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
"Division and separation means no harm to the society. It makes everyone unique."
"If a Black mother says she had a dream, listen. They are psychic."
"Religion serves all of us; men, women, gays, straights, blacks, whites, Americans and Indians. If it does not comply with our needs, wishes and happiness, then religion without a doubt is a plague that must be stopped."
"I would wear pink because I knew my future was anything but rosy. I would accessorize myself to the hilt, and I would wear flirty shoes because my world needed more beauty to counter all the ugliness in it. I would wear pink because I hated gray, I didn’t deserve white, and I was sick of black."
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