Marcus Black Quotes

#1. A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.

Marcus Aurelius

#2. The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.

Marcus Garvey

#3. I was made to rule the darkness.

Rae Hachton

#4. I would say that molecular gastronomy is a field of science. I would - I would say that it's probably lumped under chemistry, maybe. Because cooking, while it has certainly biology and some physics, it's mostly chemistry.

Wylie Dufresne

#5. That's the fine balance of a fiction writer ... to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control.

Alan Lightman

#6. I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.

Marcus Garvey

#7. You are the lamb. I am the shepherd. I will control your every move. I will direct and govern you until you learn your place. And I will guide you along the path to your slaughter.

D.H. Sidebottom

#8. In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.

Baron De Montesquieu

#9. If I was a supervillain then I guess I'd want what all supervillains want, which is world domination. I wouldn't want anything less than all the other supervillains.

Joseph Bruce

#10. In Europe I couldn't be anything but a black cook working for somebody. My inspiration was to own, to be the chef.

Marcus Samuelsson

#11. I'm an American chef. I'm American. I live here. I love being here. But, of course, it is different. A black man's journey is different.

Marcus Samuelsson

#12. I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.

Marcus Garvey

#13. Black men of Carthage, Ethiopia, of Timbuktu and Alexandria gave the likes of civilization to this world

Marcus Garvey

#14. Look to Africa, when a black king shall be crowned for the day of deliverance is at hand!

Marcus Garvey

#15. Be Black, buy Black, think Black, and all else will take care of itself.

Marcus Garvey

#16. Building trust takes long- years, sometimes decades. It takes a second, a word, or a misstep to lose it. Regaining trust takes even longer.

Assegid Habtewold

#17. Go to work! Go to work in the morn of a new creation ... until you have ... reached the height of self-progress, and from that pinnacle bestow upon the world a civilization of your own.

Marcus Garvey

#18. I look around. You'd have to be out of your fucking mind to write, as Marcus did, that Black History Month is a ploy to lever more entitlement money out of Congress, but the ho-hum nonresponse of the white crowd reading this bit of transparent insanity is, to me, even weirder.

Matt Taibbi

#19. When you're a confused 19-year-old filled with questions you can't even articulate and a kind of black rage that feeds at your heart from the moment you wake up in the morning, and you discover Marcus Aurelius' 'The Meditations,' that changes your life.

Nic Pizzolatto

#20. I don't want men of experience working for me. The experienced man is always telling me why something can't be done. The fellow who has not had any experience is so dumb he doesn't know a thing can't be done - and he goes ahead and does it.

Charles Kettering

#21. It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.

Gail Sheehy

#22. The rise of African nations concurrent with the spread of the Nation of Islam and the civil rights movement gave black America a burst of pride over and above anything they had had since the decline of the movement of Marcus Garvey.

John Henrik Clarke

#23. the emperor had chewed off his balls and stuffed a one-way ticket to the Black Sea up his rectum [Marcus Corvinus explains what happened to Ovid]

David Wishart

#24. An angel's weaknesses are better than a devil's strengths.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#25. I'm in love with fiction. A fantasy that slips between my fingers when reality sets in.

Moryah DeMott

#26. You Just scared me half to death," I said.
"You should be thrilled you're halfway there.

Rae Hachton

#27. He drew in an answering breath, and she waited to hear the quip, the joke, the dab of levity for the most intense moment they'd ever shared. But he only dropped his head into the crook of her neck and laid his mouth over her leaping pulse as they found their unhurried rhythm in the dark.

Jessica Lemmon

#28. Burn shavings and splinters of pitch pine, and when they turn to charcoal, put them out, and pound them into mortar with size. This will make a pretty black for fresco painting.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#29. With horror he saw that her hair was already afire as the tarred stake burned about her head. He held her agonized gaze with his fierce black eyes. "I'll love you forever, and beyond," he vowed as he raised both arms and plunged his sword into her heart.

~Marcus Magnus

Virginia Henley

#30. Why should not Africa give to the world its Black Rockefeller, Rothschild and Henry Ford? Now is the opportunity. Now is the chance for every Negro to make every effort toward a commercial, industrial standard that will make us comparable with the successful business men of other races.

Marcus Garvey

#31. The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret
that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#32. Black men, you were once great; you shall be great again. Lose not courage or faith, go forward.

Marcus Garvey

#33. No race has the last word on culture and on civilization. You do not know what the black man is capable of; you do not know what he is thinking and therefore you do not know what the oppressed and suppressed Negro, by virtue of his condition and circumstance, may give to the world as a surprise.

Marcus Garvey