Top 100 Black 70's Quotes
#2. Nothing is black or white, nothing's 'us or them.' But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. There's incredible acts of kindness and bravery, and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope.
Dave Matthews
#3. Putting black cloths on the hives is for us. I do it to remind us that life gives way into death, and then death turns around and gives way into life.
Sue Monk Kidd
#4. I've always considered movies evil; the day that cinema was invented was a black day for mankind.
Kenneth Anger
#5. Every white person in this country-and I do not care what he or she says-knows one thing. They may not know, as they put, "what I want",but they know they would not like to be black here.
If they know that, then they know everything they need to know, and whatever else they say is a lie.
James Baldwin
#6. Just a friendly warning: the forces of spiritual darness are nothing to trifle with. Vampires do exist, no matter what the so-called scientific minds might say, and they ARE dangerous!
C.C. Brown
#8. The convicts working the mines were almost all like him. Black, once slave, once free, now slave again.
Yaa Gyasi
#9. I grew up here, and it's always been a very diverse community. So for people to come out and say that there's some long-standing anger or there's a history of racial tension is absolutely ridiculous. There's not a black-white divide in Ferguson.
James Knowles III
#10. It was just a colour out of space - a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it; from realms whose mere existence stuns the brain and numbs us with the black extra-cosmic gulfs it throws open before our frenzied eyes.
H.P. Lovecraft
#11. I love beautiful black-and-white movies - anything Bette Davis, especially 'Now', 'Voyager', 'Casablanca', 'Mildred Pierce'; anything by Orson Welles, Truffaut, or Godard; and 'Paper Moon' by Peter Bogdanovich.
Suzan-Lori Parks
#12. He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as blades, and his jaw curved, giving him an off-kilter beauty. His black hair a mad forest of dirty curls.
Holly Black
#13. That night, as he bounded up the steps and out of the church basement, nobody in the room could have imagined that they had just seen the man who, a decade from now, would become the first black president of the United States. NEW
Isabel Wilkerson
#14. People expect black women to be angry, irrationally so, without reason. They think we are animals and we go around like the Wild Things.
Claudia Rankine
#15. Black widows may be powerful predators, but every predator is somebody else's prey.
Lionel
#16. Bill Cosby is one of America's most successful black performers.
Renee Montagne
#17. Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview.'
Dave Chappelle
#18. What good's a black face if it means I'm just someone else's property? Why give me these arms and legs just to carry someone else's load, not my own?
Stacey Lee
#19. She wears only black-rimmed glasses, and is holding a paperback titled Murder and Mayhem in Goose Pimple Junction. Her light
Dennis Hart
#20. Well you know
that I'm cold
black on constellations gold
and you know
that your soul's
black top under lacing
won't let it go
Pierce The Veil
#21. Happy is a poor word for someone who's trying to live a rainbow-colored life in a black-and-white world.
Kate Bornstein
#22. My fan base is extremely random. It's the 14-year-old white kid sitting next to your auntie from St. Luke's Baptist Church, to the 20-year-old Black girl who probably would go to a Rihanna concert, but she's coming to my show.
Robert Glasper
#23. Workers, black and white, need some kind of international affirmative action to protect them from unfair competition with unorganized or slave labor abroad and unfair competition with robots at home.
Jesse Jackson
#24. Even though sugar was very expensive, people consumed it till their teeth turned black, and if their teeth didn't turn black naturally, they blackened them artificially to show how wealthy and marvelously self-indulgent they were.
Bill Bryson
#25. Christianity fucked men and women up. Men feel guilty and women have misguided anger. The result, a weak male. Fucking controls on our behaviour. It's like a sickness. A control sickness.
Robert Black
#26. He believed there were too many black clergy who were selling heaven to the people.2
Clarence Taylor
#27. My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves.
Moon Unit Zappa
#28. If I got to you once, I can do it again. And maybe next time I won't waste my breath trying to prove the fact that I'm your equal."
"I am the King, you realize."
"And I'm the daughter of a deity, motherfucker.
J.R. Ward
#29. If we're not going to tax the rich anymore, we're going to create class warfare.
Lewis Black
#30. All business is personal ... Make your friends before you need them.
Robert Johnson
#31. Dive deep into the ocean, Sita, and you will find that the greatest treasures you find are the illusions you leave behind.
Christopher Pike
#32. Toward dusk, the black birds descend, millions of them, to sit in the branches of trees nearby. The trees grow heavy with black birds, branches like dendrites of the Nervous System fattening, deep in twittering nerve-dusk, in preparation for some important message ... .
Thomas Pynchon
#34. In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
Bill Condon
#35. I feel that sometimes, holding yourself as black, saying that is your sole identity, can sometimes stand in your way of being a member of the humanity of man, being a member of the family of the divine.
Giancarlo Esposito
#36. She'd read in novels of people who couldn't speak because their hearts were too full and she'd always thought, Not my black heart.
But now she couldn't speak, because it was too much, whatever it was.
Loretta Chase
#37. To speak as black, female, and commercial lawyer has rendered me simultaneously universal, trendy, and marginal.
Patricia J. Williams
#38. If I describe a person's physical appearance in my writing, which I often do, especially in fiction, I never say someone is "black" or "white." I may describe the color of their skin - black eyes, beige skin, blue eyes, dark skin, etc. But I'm not talking about race.
Jamaica Kincaid
#39. Is it possible for white America to really understand blacks' distrust of the legal system, their fears of racial profiling and the police, without understanding how cheap a black life was for so long a time in our nation's history?
Philip Dray
#41. I want to introduce my readers to people they may never have met, take them places they may never have visited, and present them with situations they may never have encountered.
J. Everett Prewitt
#42. My mother is black and my father is Filipino. I got the best of both worlds.
Cassie Ventura
#43. I talked to members of my family, and did some personal research that didn't really have anything to do with the time and place I was writing about, but that gave me a feeling of the experience of being black in a time and place where it was very difficult to be black.
Octavia Butler
#44. Give me Pablo Neruda, picnic beneath a full moon & iridescent stars, black olives, cherries, dark things, canoe on a river ... that's romance.
Brandi L. Bates
#45. Lynching's legacy, though, is also evident today in law enforcement's freedom from accountability in the shooting of black and other youth of color, thus displaying a de facto, and often actual, legalization of white supremacist killing of black life.
Mark Lewis Taylor
#46. I have a father who was the first black student at his junior high and high school and had to do a lot to get to that point.
Solange Knowles
#47. Black is now in desperate need of a good idea. Or, to put it standard chess notation, +-
Mark Dvoretsky
#48. I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you - you - you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality.
George H. W. Bush
#49. I do not need the strength of your arm to make a knight of you, Gavin. All I need is your heart, and that you have given,' the Prince said.
Chuck Black
#50. the cow crossly shook her head and craned her neck, mooing plaintively, and beyond the black barns of Meliuzeievo the stars twinkled, and invisible threads of sympathy stretched between them and the cow as if there were cattle sheds in other worlds where she was pitied. Everything
Boris Pasternak
#51. Because one day I'll leave you a phantom to lead you in the summer to join the black parade
Gerard Way
#52. What I want to do is play roles as a black man, instead of playing black man's roles. You know?
Jim Brown
#53. I think you impressed him with the sheer force of your stupidity.
Holly Black
#54. I don't see myself as a 'black actor,' I'm just Shemar Moore the actor. I'm very proud to be black, but I'm just as much black as I am white.
Shemar Moore
#56. This house feels unfamiliar and disturbingly full of possibilities.
Holly Black
#57. He [Iggy] started reaching for things around the table, and his hand landed on Total. "You're black."
"I prefer canine-American," said Total.
James Patterson
#58. I like songs that make me feel tough. Like 'Back in Black.' You want to hear it again and get in a fight.
Chris Stapleton
#59. I've always been a social network retard, even before there was a social network. People would say, "You want to go to this party and do some networking?"
Lewis Black
#60. All these many-coloured feelings fell... like light on a black surface, producing no change, meeting no return.
Catharine Maria Sedgwick
#61. I think there is unnecessary conflict right now between the vehemently religious and the LGBT community. The extremes of religion I think and the LGBT community have an issue and because a lot of black families in America are more religious, I think that is where the conflict comes into play.
John Amaechi
#62. In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable.
Angela Davis
#63. That one smooth black eye stared, and reflected in it I fancied I could see the cyclopeon city, and the endless column of the marching dead.
Stephen King
#64. I made up my mind that I was going to be just like Elvis. It never occurred to me that Elvis was a man. I just wanted to be him. He had a huge impact on me, right down to that black leather jumpsuit he wore on the '68 Comeback Special.
Suzi Quatro
#65. Faith pulls the black mask from the face of trouble, and discovers the angel beneath.
Charles Spurgeon
#66. Quick question. Does this magical skill with gray matter come with a total lack of compunction for your kind, or is it just you who were born without a conscience?
V: I beg your pardon?
J.R. Ward
#67. I was 26 when I went to my first acting class. I'm naturally quite shy. I'm a quite private person. There's this really strange acting class in New York called Black Nexxus. For someone who's slightly shy or self-conscious, it's the most frightening thing you can do.
Hannah Ware
#68. I am Levi Black and my record was spotless; I didn't mess around with students, I didn't lose cases, and I sure as hell didn't air my dirty laundry in public.
J.J. McAvoy
#69. Fatima's hair, what was left of it, had pulled free of the coil into which she'd put it before striking the match. Her face was now black and shiny, as if an artist commissioned to lacquer the eyes of a statue of
Katherine Boo
#70. In fairy-tales, witches always wear silly black hats and black cloaks, and they ride on broomsticks. But this is not a fairy-tale. This is about REAL WITCHES. The most important thing you should know about REAL WITCHES is this. Listen very carefully. Never forget what is coming next.
Roald Dahl
#71. I feel the need to scream, and even if the scream is not answered, I find my sanity in the echo.
Lewis Black
#72. It is wonderful how much depends upon the relations of black and white A black and white, if properly balanced, suggests colour.
Winslow Homer
#73. Many voted in 2008 with the desire to see racism and racists humiliated by having a qualified black man elected president.
Douglas Wilder
#75. I think the best comedy is tragicomic. Yeah, I suppose if you were to look at everything I've done, there is a bit of a black streak through all of it. It's not deliberate: it's what makes me laugh, and there's a fine tradition of it, especially in Ireland.
Sharon Horgan
#76. I saw the Supremes when they were still singing in little black skirts and white blouses.
Aretha Franklin
#77. Before me no one would have dared dress in black
Coco Chanel
#78. People are always going to, you know, find something wrong with people who are not the exact same as them. That's just what it is. Black, white, short, tall, religions, whatever. People are bad.
Chris Rock
#79. If you were expecting Prince Charming, I'm sorry. He's with his boyfriend.
Shayla Black
#80. Black-on black crime' is jargon, violence on language, which vanishes the men who engineered the covenants, who fixed the loans, who planned the projects, who built the streets and sold red ink by the barrel.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#81. Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.
Audre Lorde
#82. I believe there is no one principle which predominates in human nature so much in every stage of life, from the cradle to the grave, in males and females, old and young, black and white, rich and poor, high and low, as this passion for superiority.
David McCullough
#83. After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and did not touch it when I walked.
Black Elk
#84. He didn't notice the fist clad in a black silver-studded glove as it flew towards the side of his face. But although the night was dark, the moon was new and the sky overcast, he suddenly saw ten thousand dazzlingly bright stars.
Andrzej Sapkowski
#85. You can't make me mad by calling me names that are true. Certainly I'm a rascal, and why not? It's a free country and a man may be a rascal if he chooses. It's only hypocrites like you, my dear lady, just as black at heart but trying to hide it, who becomes enraged when called by their right names.
Margaret Mitchell
#86. Unfortunately there is a standard set for it that precedes hip-hop. It would be great if corporate America didn't do this, but there is a huge market for sex and violence and anti-Black representations in America and the world that doesn't begin or end with hip-hop.
Bakari Kitwana
#87. The two of us praying like this to the Black Madonna Sudenly washes over me, and I'm filled with love for my mother. The best gift she has give me is the constancy of her belief. Whatever I become, she loves me. To her, I am enough.
Ann Kidd Taylor
#88. Had I a thousand daughters, by Heaven! I'd as soon have them taught the black art as their alphabet!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#89. I'm going to write about them as I took them -- with a smile.
Jack Black
#90. There are not more than five primary colors (blue, yellow, red, white, and black), yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen.
Sun Tzu
#92. When I was in High School I fell for pretty much any girl I ever met. But I was so desperate that I couldn't get any of them because they sensed my desperation! After many, many years, I learned to relax and just be myself.
Jack Black
#93. We'd like to be welcomed with open arms and open legs
Andy Biersack
#94. My songs don't play on pop radio; they play on black radio.
Robin Thicke
#95. Hell, everybody is a masochist. Some of us are just a little more private.
Cecil Brown
#96. We don't consider black, urban films as 'indies,' though many of them are shot for under $10 million which is kind of the definition of an indie.
Gabrielle Union
#97. Stop saying you're not racist because you have a friend that's black. That's like saying you're not a pedophile because you have a friend that's a kid.
Daniel Tosh
#98. Since shotguns are not military weapons, your local sporting goods dealer will have good information about them, as long as you aren't black, Spanish, or a white freak.
William Powell
#99. The fact that picking out china patterns was pretty gay didn't bother me, since we were picking them out to shoot them. Frank chose the design. Ivory white with solid black borders and real gold edging. Fucking expensive. He made me pay.
Nicole Castle
#100. On the one hand, there is no reason that a black person needs to live a portion of his or her life being concerned about the people of color around him. On the other hand, if you don't you're crazy.
Henry Hampton
