Black Comedians Quotes

#1. Why do you read many books? The great book is within your heart. Open the pages of this inexhaustible book, the source of all knowledge. You will know everything.

Sivananda

#2. Kids are so smart these days. They sense when there's a phony bologna out there. Especially in music, when they see something that's being marketed to them, they'll call it out. They'll be like, "This chick is bullshit."

Katy Perry

#3. Elvis had animal magnetism, he was even sexy to the guys, I can't imagine what the chicks used to think.

Ian Hunter

#4. There are words that I wouldn't say because they hurt people's feelings. I just happen to be a white guy who writes for a lot of black comedians but if I wrote for a lot of gay comedians there might be stuff I would say then.

Neal Brennan

#5. Where are the exhortations for children to reject the self-defeating stereotypes that reduce black people to violent, oversexed 'gangstas,' minstrel show comedians and mindless athletes?

Juan Williams

#6. If you don't believe in yourself, who will?' ~Maybeck

Ridley Pearson

#7. There is a linear way in which black comedians are expected to talk about race by all audiences - black people are like this, white people are like this - and it really is hard to break through that. I never was doing it that way.

W. Kamau Bell

#8. There's this misconception that comedy and music go together. They don't. Comedians can't compete with rock stars; they're just not on the same level. Rock stars will always be cooler. They will always get more girls.

Michael Ian Black

#9. The War office kept three sets of figures - one to mislead the public, another to mislead the cabinet and the third to mislead itself.

H. H. Asquith

#10. I thought comedians had to have black on their faces or red beards.

Dorothy Gish

#11. Black comics, they only watch Black comedians. You're a comedian; you're not just a Black comedian. You're a comedian. I try to get that through to everybody.

Chris Rock

#12. Sometimes our experiences helps us build the monument that forms the base for what God wants us to do.

Bidemi Mark-Mordi

#13. 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.

Franklyn Ajaye

#14. As far as stand-ups go, I always loved Richard Pryor, Chris Rock, and Sinbad. Basically, I love black comedians because they're the funniest. I wish I were a black comedian, actually.

Adam DeVine

#15. Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers.

Jack Black