Black Voices Quotes

#1. As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write songs for black voices.

Mike Stoller

#2. Since I am from Spain, once the morning has gone, I like to take a nap while falling asleep to black and white movies. It feels less lonely. There is a comfort in hearing their voices, like when you're a child and your mother tells you a story before bedtime.

Jordi Molla

#3. Taboos on the human heart are more dangerous than any risk we run by using our emotions. Sensation is the life of man; it is his actual energy. To suppress it is to lose creative power!

Phyllis Bottome

#4. Men imagine gods to be born, and to have clothes and voices and shapes like theirs....Yea, the gods of the Ethiopians are black and flat-nosed, and the gods of the Thracians are red-haired and blue-eyed.

Michio Kaku

#5. For me, one of the biggest thrills is going to a theater and going, "Oh, I got a laugh!" Because you never quite get to hear it [otherwise].

Jeremy Irvine

#6. I hate white people writing for black people; it's so offensive. So we go out and look specifically for African-American voices.

Lee Daniels

#7. When there is nothing you can do to stop the march of adverse events, then the best thing, she felt, was to get on with life and not to worry.

Alexander McCall Smith

#8. There must be a way to fight this. To block out the black thoughts and make the voices go away. But with each memory fading, their hold on me strengthens. Soon the person I was, still am, will be gone. I'll be hollow.

Jeyn Roberts

#9. Sounds of depression
remembering rejection
Hope turns to despair
black roses everywhere

Keep hearing echoes
voices in my mind
repeating endless lies
evil in disguise

Diana Rasmussen

#10. This is the country for cruel experiments - it's where idealists are sent to die, my friend. Killing people who believe in things is our national sport." With

Philip Kerr

#11. Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in the stillness can we hear the truth of our own unique voices.

Pearl Cleage

#12. When I get you to say more than two words at a time, I feel like I've won something major.

Christina Lauren

#13. Gutenberg and Richter were very great men.

Frank Press

#14. Come seek us where our voices sound, We cannot sing above the ground, And while you're searching, ponder this: We've taken what you'll sorely miss, An hour long you'll have to look, And to recover what we took, But past an hour - the prospect's black, Too late, it's gone, it won't come back.

J.K. Rowling

#15. I've been so afraid of getting closeness wrong, because I don't know how to do it, because I don't know what my mistakes reveal
maybe they reveal very good reasons for my having been unloved as a child, I just don't know.

Helen Oyeyemi

#16. "Getting away from it all," many people want that, and of course ultimately the only way to get away from it all is to go within, now.

Eckhart Tolle

#17. Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay,
Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away,
Gone from the earth to a better land I know,
I hear their gentle voices calling Old Black Joe.

Stephen Foster

#18. Doing voiceovers is so great because even though many people would think it's just your voice, you really do use all your physicality. I've done everything from playing a butterfly to Alice in Wonderland when she's 10 feet tall, so it allows you to be an actor and build new characters.

Ashley Bell

#19. Black New Yorkers' distressing personal accounts of poverty and unemployment, inadequate housing, white supremacy and state-sanctioned violence politicized St. Clair, leading her to become one of New York's staunchest yet most unlikely voices against urban inequity.

LaShawn Harris

#20. I was a bit of a coward when I was small. I was terribly frightened of the dark.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#21. I really want to be the black Tina Fey, where I just am able to produce my own content and produce other content for other minority filmmakers and put their voices on screen and basically be able to have free range to produce.

Issa Rae

#22. Black skin was filled with so many barriers, so many restrictions, so many.

Randi Pink

#23. The first time I went to Abbey Road and put those headphones on, I discovered I had two voices. I no longer had to shout in the studio, but I can't knock the Cavern or the other clubs because they gave me my strong voice.

Cilla Black

#24. I have one thing in common with the emerging black nations of Africa: We both have voices, and we are discovering what we can do with them.

Miriam Makeba

#25. Must one become seventy years old to recognize that one's greatest strength lies in creating musical kitsch?

Richard Strauss

#26. I started modeling at 14. It's simple. You respond to what the photographer wants and wear other people's ideas. I got bored with it, though, so I went to university.

Lily Cole

#27. I think that there is a changing wind. There are black conservatives out there, and their voices need to be heard.

Allen West

#28. Adele's voice is incredible. Chet Baker also has one of my favorite voices of all time, and so does Joni Mitchell. And Frank Black. Oh, and Stevie Nicks.

Megan Boone

#29. When you have a policy of making sure that African Americans cannot build wealth, of plundering African American communities of wealth, giving opportunities to other people, it's only right that you might want to, you know, pay that back.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#30. I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.

Black Elk

#31. Our voices, wrapping around each other's, entwining, and then tugging free, in the pitch black.

Rick Yancey

#32. I like men. I like the sound of their voices, the way they think. They're more sensitive than women. With a woman, everything is either this or that, black or white. But a man can see shades of gray. That's what I call being sensitive.

Carolyn Jones

#33. I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not being afraid to try to write about baseball, choral music and dinosaurs in the same week and see connections among them.

Stephen Jay Gould

#34. Delight and cheer in life, and let it uplift and inspire you. Spread happiness.

Amy Leigh Mercree

#35. Maybe that's all she saw, the end of her suffering, the black, blank silence of the departed. No more bells, no more noises, no more voices and their terrible, disapproving faces. No past, no future, no more sad todays. No tomorrows.

James Preller

#36. It's black women as perpetual sidekick. We need to hear from more women's voices. And it would be nice to see some books geared toward us.

Cheryl Lynn