Successful Black Quotes

#1. If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary.

Tyler Perry

#2. The twenty-first-century successful black woman is brilliant and tenacious and not afraid to flex her intellectual, spiritual, or financial muscles. She has accomplished, earned, and owned more than black women of any other generation in American history.

Sophia Nelson

#3. Films portraying successful black people getting married are great, but films that only show one aspect of our culture, bother me.

Drake

#4. I would say for every successful black woman in America or in the world, really, it's difficult to be the head of the household, financially. It is for the man in your life. It can be very hard for them. And there's a delicate balance. I'm not quite sure I know what that balance is just yet.

Jill Scott

#5. People don't know that there were very successful black businessmen in the years of apartheid.

Patrice Motsepe

#6. Any successful black person will have to face suspicion within his or her own community about his or her loyalty to other blacks.

Randall Kennedy

#7. Bill Cosby is one of America's most successful black performers.

Renee Montagne

#8. There were so few black men who were successful and who successfully conveyed black male fear - how America can make you feel crazy, and how America can create interesting levels of contradiction.

Hilton Als

#9. Unfortunately, as I tell my white friends, we as black people, we're never going to be successful not because of you white people but because of other black people,

Charles Barkley

#10. Ask successful men or women about their early years in business, and nearly every one will be able to tell you about the first person who showed faith in his or her abilities or offered genuine encouragement.

Cathie Black

#11. No matter how much you've worked so hard to be as successful as you are, there will always be those ignorant haters who don't understand.

Jinxx

#12. To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.

X.J. Kennedy

#13. I'm glad that young black people are successful with the music. I'm not a hater.

DMX

#14. There are still plenty of movie people peddling black stereotypes. I guess Tyler Perry's probably the most massively successful.

Paul Mooney

#15. I've played lots of villains in my time and I think the reason they've been so successful is that they're not two-dimensional. They're not black and white. That's the gig.

Mark Strong

#16. Black folks are judged by quantity, not quality. It's a decimal point or figure. How different is that from slavery? There's no moral code, it's just about successful business for America.

Chuck D

#17. Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history.

Conrad Black

#18. All the work that I do, whether or not it ends up being commercially successful or not, feels like the most important thing to me while I'm doing it. I try to take something away from every project, and so they all feel like milestones for one reason or another.

Michael Ian Black

#19. I can't say I'm surprised I was successful. I was determined - and I got it.

Cilla Black

#20. I used to think that I could be successful if I pretended to be a 23-year-old black woman. I wanted to find a young black woman who would be willing to go in on this with me. I would write her novels, and then she would do the touring. I always thought I was too old and the wrong color.

Edmund White

#21. Haiti is unique - the first successful slave revolt in history, the first black republic etc., and then when you get into the culture, the voodoo, and that wonderful synchretization of Christian and African belief and symbology, it's like nothing the world has ever seen.

Ben Fountain

#22. Every day of my life I walk with the idea that I am black, no matter how successful I am. And our success is tempered by that; you're successful in this way given the fact you are black, and most blacks don't get to that point.

Danny Glover

#23. I definitely am drawn to strong females who are successful, smart women because I am a woman like that. I think it's important to portray those kinds of women on film and television. Especially as a black woman, I think it's important.

Megalyn Echikunwoke

#24. Until the late 1970s there'd either be only black or white in the paintings or if there were colours it would be a small amount, not a large area, and with the color separated from other colors by black or white (which is formula for Damien Hirst's successful dot paintings, incidentally).

Matthew Collings

#25. It would seem that some black people want to say that when you, as a black, become successful, you cease to be black. That's ridiculous.

Clarence Thomas

#26. I just wish all these young black kids would realize how significant it is to stop acting a fool out there, killing each other, not getting their education. You know, people have died to put us in a situation to be successful.

Charles Barkley

#27. I didn't like any British music before The Beatles. For me, it was all about black American music. But then I became a successful pop singer, even though the kind of music I liked was more elitist, which is what I'm trying to get back to.

Lulu

#28. Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's history.

Conrad Black

#29. Black and white thinking limits understanding and feedback, two necessary ingredients for successful resolution in creative conflict and successful understanding.

David W. Earle

#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. Whenever Black succeeds in assuming the initiative in maintaining it to a successful conclusion, the sporting spirit of the chess lover feels gratified, because it shows that the resources of the game are far from being exhausted.

Savielly Tartakower

#32. There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. Horrible as successful artists often are, there is nothing crueler or more vain than a failed artist.

Erica Jong

#33. Barry Bonds is outspoken. I think that the people of Pittsburgh felt, it's a syndrome of you've got to apologize for being successful if you're successful (as well as) black and outspoken.

Dave Parker