Black Slang Quotes

#1. I have no desire to be hip to the latest black slang and do the stereotypical black thing. I was a Richard Pryor fan, and I have used profanity in my act. But when it becomes a whole thing that defines blacks, we're limiting ourselves. The enemy is us.

Franklyn Ajaye

#2. Having regrets and things, it just takes your time away.

Leif Garrett

#3. One must act in painting as in life, directly.

Pablo Picasso

#4. We live in the river of being, if we truly live.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#5. Did you know that in The Lion King, the hyenas - the bad guys - all speak in either black or Latino slang? And that the little cubs are told not to go where the hyenas live?" He looks at me, amused. "Do you realize that Scar, the villain, is darker than Mufasa?

Jodi Picoult

#6. I never know which Starr I should be. I can use some slang, but not too much slang, some attitude, but not too much attitude, so I'm not a "sassy black girl." I have to watch what I say and how I say it, but I can't sound "white." Shit

Angie Thomas

#7. Who originates the latest slang terms that are, seemingly overnight, known to every black youth across the country?

Donald Jeffries

#8. What oftentimes draws the good church girl to the bad boy is the bad in the good church girl, which the Bible calls the flesh.

Daniel Whyte III

#9. I aim to be content with what I produce. It's an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.

Graham Greene