Top 100 Black Is Quotes
#1. Black is too morbid; red will set them on edge; pink is too juvenile; orange is freakish
Lauren Oliver
#2. Something like 'Rust and Bone' would be a dream. Very pared down. 'Orphan Black' is such a challenge. I just need something that isn't as full-on intense as that.
Tatiana Maslany
#3. That reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white black is a matter of concern. It raises questions about our ways of education and about the values that guide our conduct.
Solomon Asch
#4. Black is carrying a gun (a kind of metal wand which Muggles use to kill each other),
J.K. Rowling
#6. My character on 'Orange is the New Black' is not one that requires being absolutely shredded with 5% body fat. But I wouldn't be opposed to doing that for a role one day.
Matt McGorry
#7. He thinks being black means having plenty of attitude; I think having plenty of knowledge is what black is all about;
Eric Jerome Dickey
#8. Women think black is the most flattering color, but they're wrong. Pink adds a cosmetic-like radiance and warmth. Black drains the skin of color; pink delights the eye.
Oscar De La Renta
#9. Black is like a broken vessel, which is deprived of the capacity to contain anything.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#10. Black isn't beautiful and it isn't ugly - black is! It's not kinky hair and it's not straight hair - it just is.
Gloria Naylor
#11. Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#12. Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
William Faulkner
#13. The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.
Jesse Jackson
#14. The camera implies meaning where no meaning exists. I had not celebrated that brother and sister. I had mocked them. I had exploited their sorrow. I had tried to make them part of a hopeful message on the state of the Union. To be black is to be the actor. To be white is to be the critic.
Don DeLillo
#15. There's something really unique about 'Orphan Black' is that it has a lot of female leads, so it's about a lot of women's stories, but it's not women's stories in terms of trying to find a guy or keep a guy; it's about entirely other things.
Tatiana Maslany
#16. When you say 'Black is beautiful' you are saying, 'Man you are okay as you are, begin to look upon yourself as a human being'.
Steven Biko
#17. Where white is black and black is white, I won.
Ted Hughes
#18. Beyond the black is the light.
Rob Davis
#19. Black is the hardest color in the world to get right-except for gray ...
Diana Vreeland
#21. To justify their avoidance of embarrassment, the whole profession tells the rest of us, based on "extensive scientific studies," that black is white.
Timothy Ferriss
#22. White is not always light and black is not always dark.
Habeeb Akande
#23. Never let anyone tell you, your Black is not beautiful.
Habeeb Akande
#24. Protein is to diets what black is to fashion: it makes everyone thinner.
Lou Schuler
#25. Out of the blue and into the black is what they called going into a tunnel. Each one was a black echo. Nothing but death in there. But, still, they went.
Michael Connelly
#26. Black is the most essential of all colors. Above all, if I may say so, it draws its excitement and vitality from deep and secret sources of health ... One must admire black. Nothing can debauch it.
Odilon Redon
#27. Richmond has fallen - and I have no heart to write about it ... They are too many for us. Everythign lost in Richmond, even our archives. Blue-black is our horizon.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
#28. It's too easy to say that orange is happy and black is sad. To me, black is perfect. You can fill it with the emotion you want to express.
Ann Demeulemeester
#29. I like the way black looks. I think I look better in darker clothes. And maybe the fact that I wear black so much makes me more aware of putting people at ease. The black is sort of the bad-guy guise, so I work overtime to make people comfortable.
Joan Jett
#30. You have to assess every situation that you're in and you have to decide, is this happening because I'm black? Is this happening because I'm a woman? Or is this happening because this is how it happens?
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
#32. Black is your safeword. If it becomes to much, say it.
Dani Nichole
#33. Orange is the New Black is a really boring porn.
Mitty Walters
#34. When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
Patricia Sun
#35. Holly Black is the Real Thing: a gifted writer with a solid grounding in what matters. Her stories are dark and splendid blooms rising from roots sunk deep in myth and tradition.
Ellen Kushner
#36. It was human who said BLACK is SAD. I don't believe. You know why. Because I am BLACK but am HAPPY.
Ahamed Nafaz Raja.S.N
#37. There are 365 days in a year and you will meet all the colours of life throughout the year: The blue, the black, the pink ... Only blue is not a life, only pink is not a life, only black is not a life! Life is all the colours!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#38. I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements ... producing ... developing a half-hour sitcom ... working on a movie ... leading acting workshops all over the world ... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
Tasha Smith
#39. Some people think black is the color of heaven, and that the more they can make their faces look like midnight, the more evidence they have of grace. But God, who made the sun and the flowers, never sent me to proclaim to you such a lie as that.
Henry Ward Beecher
#41. Conrad Black is a picture of a man hugely enjoying himself.
Kate Reardon
#44. Black is not a notion. Africa is not a color. Africa is a culture. So you can be pitch black and I am my color but I'm more African than you can ever be because culturally there are certain things that you just don't understand.
Jihan El-Tahri
#45. Just two days in Manhattan and you find yourself looking for a place to wash your handkerchief after you wipe your forehead and it comes away black. Is there a dirtier or more fascinating city anywhere in the land? The answer to both parts of the question has to be positively negative.
Herb Caen
#47. If (Black) is going for victory, he is practically forced to allow his opponent to get some kind of well-known positional advantage.
Mikhail Tal
#48. The best thing about wearing black is that you can hide pretty easily, unless you're in like Hawaii, then you can't hide.
Gerard Way
#49. Black Is The Most Beautiful colour because it does not reflect it absorbs all into itself.
Amit Abraham
#50. In South Africa today, black is the new black, bra.
Zukiswa Wanner
#51. The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.
George Bernard Shaw
#52. Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy - but mysterious. But above all black says this: "I don't bother you - don't bother me".
Yohji Yamamoto
#53. Black is a great color!!! it sets off your wig!
Stan Freberg
#54. I wear black on the outside, because black is how I feel on the inside.
Steven Morrissey
#55. a loyal willingness to say that black is white when Party discipline demands this. But it means also the ability to believe that black is white, and more, to know that black is white, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary. This
George Orwell
#56. Black is greenest ever.
Vikrmn
#57. As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.
Ad Reinhardt
#58. It's really easy to get colors right. It's really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but it's also an illusion.
Donna Karan
#59. She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought.
Frank Herbert
#60. If you force me to pick one color, it'd be Black ... It covers up the things inside of me that I don't want to be known. Well, for the same reason, black is the color I hate, too ...
Gosho Aoyama
#61. Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone.
Flip Wilson
#62. Black is now in desperate need of a good idea. Or, to put it standard chess notation, +-
Mark Dvoretsky
#63. Many people believe that determining who is 'black' is rather easy, a task simplified by the administration of the one-drop rule. Under the one-drop rule, any discernible African ancestry stamps a person as 'black.'
Randall Kennedy
#65. While Muggles have been told that Black is carrying a gun (a kind of metal wand that Muggles use to kill each other), the magical community lives in fear of a massacre like
J.K. Rowling
#66. Black is my favorite color. It's limitless. It's indefinable. It keeps you guessing. When there's nothing to see, you're forced to imagine. It makes every shape, every person more mysterious because you can't see all the details.
Katie Kacvinsky
#67. black is beautiful
Me
#69. Black is a blind remembering, she thought. You listen for pack sounds, for the cries of those who hunted your ancestors in a past so ancient only your most primitive cells remember. The ears see. The nostrils see.
Frank Herbert
#70. Human beings go to church. The guy in the front dressed in black is the guy you defer to. He is in charge of the mysteries of universe, which ordinary human beings don't seem to have the inclination to understand.
Frederick Lenz
#71. Black is the most slimming of all Colors. It is the most flattering. You can wear black at any Time. You can wear it at any age. You can wear it for almost any occasion. I could write a book about black.
Christian Dior
#72. The piano has eighty-eight keys, and you have to be able to play all of them. And the range of white to black is analogous to the eighty-eight keys and you have to be able to play all eighty-eight keys in that palette from white to black.
Ansel Adams
#73. Tony Black is the Tom Waits of Crime Fiction, yes, that good.
Ken Bruen
#74. Yes, black is slimming, but it's not always youthful. The right tone of red, however, is flattering on all women.
Twiggy
#75. What shall I do, singer and first-born, in a
world where the deepest black is grey,
and inspiration is kept in a thermos?
with all this immensity
in a measured world?
Marina Tsvetaeva
#76. A riveting and realistic portrayal of space travel gone wrong, and of a crew who must fight for their survival. Bones Burnt Black is exciting, and expertly told. A must-listen.
J. C. Hutchins
#77. Black is an old wrinkled-face queen sitting on a porch while rocking away her last days, thinking of her grandchildren
Black is the old lady's grandchildren yelling "Revolution!" so that their grandmother would die free
Umar Bin Hassan
#78. Coal-black is better than another hue,
In that it scorns to bear another hue;
For all the water in the ocean
Can never turn the swan's black legs to white,
Although she lave them hourly in the flood.
William Shakespeare
#79. Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.
Steven Biko
#80. Designing bridal is perfect for me, because black is my least favorite color, if you could call it a color.
Lela Rose
#81. Black is not a vice. Nor is segregation a virtue.
Kiese Laymon
#82. I think it's too easy to just say that there is a direct and necessary conflict between black identity and gay identity. I think it's more nuanced than that simply because I think black is a color and then people layer on top of it all kinds of socio-cultural elements.
John Amaechi
#83. Black is the Color and none is the number
Bob Dylan
#84. Black is a color of power and strength, and to see all those players, with the captains linking their arms in front - it's a powerful picture.
Hayden Fry
#85. Black is real sensation, even if it is produced by entire absence of light. The sensation of black is distinctly different from the lack of all sensations.
Hermann Von Helmholtz
#86. If you are going to think black, think positive about it. Don't think down on it, or think it is something in your way. And this way, when you really do want to stretch out and express how beautiful black is, everybody will hear you.
Leontyne Price
#87. It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.
Gary Oldman
#89. [H]umans tend to start the process of change by acknowledging themselves thus blacks asserted black pride and black is beautiful; women declared I am woman, I am strong:;; men are saying I am man, I am okay. After a quarter of a century of male bashing, that's not a bad start.
Warren Farrell
#90. Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life.
Wassily Kandinsky
#92. Start with a blank surface. It doesn't have to be paper or canvas, but I feel it should be white. We call it white because we need a word, but its true name is nothing. Black is the absence of light, but white is the absence of memory, the color of can't remember.
Stephen King
#93. You can show black is white by argument,' said Filby, 'but you will never convince me.
H.G.Wells
#94. Black is a good color anytime you're flinging around blood.
Richard Kadrey
#95. Black is associated with power because all vibrational energies of all colors are drawn into one place, ready to be used. Wear black when you feel the need to draw energy to yourself for reviving your strength, energy, and will.
Tae Yun Kim
#96. For me black is not dark, it's poetic. I don't think of gothic I think of classic - it's a big difference.
Ann Demeulemeester
#97. Red next to black is a friend of Jack; red next to yellow will kill a fellow.
Anne McAneny
#98. It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.
Bill Cosby
#99. The key word for my book The Woman in Black is unsettling ... because you're not terrified all of the time or even frightened, but you're unsettled and once you're unsettled, then the door's open.
Susan Hill
#100. They claim we're products from the bottom of Hell,
But the black is back, and it's bound to sell.
Picture us coolin' out on the Fourth of July ...
And if you heard we were celebratin', that's a worldwide lie.
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