Top 100 The Black Quotes
#1. That's the result of the black cloud on baseball, .. Until it's rid of steroids, people are naturally going to think that.
Cal Ripken Jr.
#2. 'The Black Magician Trilogy' was about a conflict between countries and was very limited and almost claustrophobic in its range of settings, while 'The Age of the Five' was about a conflict between continents.
Trudi Canavan
#3. night. It was too dangerous. He drove in silence, struggling to keep his attention on the black
Keith C. Blackmore
#4. When you look at the Lady Gagas of the world, or the Jay-Zs, or the Black Eyed Peas, these are people who have one album release and it's a worldwide one.
Tinie Tempah
#5. However, if Moscow regains control over Ukraine, with its 52 million people and major resources as well as access to the Black Sea, Russia automatically again regains the wherewithal to become a powerful imperial state, spanning Europe and Asia.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
#6. Tommy was tall and wide-hipped, but Mills couldn't tell what kind of body lay underneath the black T-shirt and jeans, what kind of person, what kind of smell or ability to reach over in the dark. There were certain things a person could only learn by touching someone else.
Christopher Bollen
#7. When I was done, his arms were spread wide above his head, secured by the black ties at his wrists. he looked like a dark god who was being punished.
Chloe Blaque
#8. While the black coal rose jutting round them, and the props of wood stood like little pillars in the low, black, very dark temple.
D.H. Lawrence
#9. Better start running, the Black Cook's coming! Ha! Ha! Ha!
Gunter Grass
#10. Finally, slowly, drippingly, degrade the term Choice down to its most meager means: The red car not the black one. The 9:25 showing, not the 7:15. Ritz not Wheat Thins.
Geoffrey Wood
#11. Crowned heads, wealth and privilege may well tremble should ever again the Black and Red unite!
-after the split between Anarchists and Marxists in 1872
Otto Von Bismarck
#12. Darkness, whether in mood or in night, is natural. So if we flow with the black bile of melancholia and endure the terrible darkness of depression, eventually we will break through into the light of joy. This is the Tao (the Way) of darkness or depression
this is the Mystery of its evolution.
Arnold Mindell
#13. In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad.
Whitney Houston
#14. Mr. Cain would structurally change the voting demographic. There would be more black economic conservatives, and the Democrats would lose their stranglehold on the black vote.
Alveda King
#15. Anon from the castle walls The crescent banner falls, And the crowd beholds instead, Like a portent in the sky, Iskander's banner fly, The Black Eagle with double head. And shouts ascend on high ... ' Long live Scanderbeg.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#16. I was considered the black sheep of the family, neighbours didn't want their kids playing with me.
Michelle Pfeiffer
#17. And there was a tree stump outside the Black Barn everyone called 'Dave's stump' because for over three years, until a few weeks before our arrival, he'd sat on it to read and write, sometimes even when it was raining or cold.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#18. I am honored to have John Lloyd called the Black Wagner. It is a privilege to have been compared with him.
Honus Wagner
#19. You're playing with fire askin' that question, darlin'."
"Why's that?"
"'Cause my very explicit answer would make you blush like a virgin and run screamin' for the Black Hills.
Lorelei James
#20. The scrape of the skates on the ice. The smell of musty old equipment. The black puck stains on the boards. To the uninitiated they're nothing, but to a hockey player they're home.
Jeff Lemire
#21. People do terrible things. People do beautiful things. It's against the black backdrop of evil that the shining light of good shows the brightest. We can't just focus on the darkness of the night, or we'll miss out on the stars.
Wendy Mills
#22. I stood with my arms stretched wide and trembling, and I felt as if the black sky was my body and I felt as if the white moon, far above me, unwrinkled and shining, was my mind.
Karen Russell
#23. Due to affirmative action, about half of the black law students fall to the bottom 10% percent of the class and they are 2.5 times more likely than whites not to graduate college. Blacks are four times less likely to pass the bar exam on the first attempt.
Peter Kirsanow
#24. I'm a prodigal son. The black sheep of a white flock. I shall die on the gallows.
William A. Drake
#25. The black panic, that's what woke me; that all too familiar blend of terror and heinousness that buzzed beneath my skin where no eye could detect it and no scalpel could dig it out, where it would remain until I exorcised it out of me. Last night's memories were making their entrance.
Alistair Cross
#26. America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.
Malcolm X
#27. I argue that the resurrection was not the Great Resuscitation. It was a total transformation. I just don't accept the black-and-white thinking that goes along with needing to regard the gospels are literally true.
Jay Parini
#28. And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here.
Waylon Jennings
#29. 'Empire' deals with the black experience, the human experience, sibling rivalry, what it feels like to be ignored or doted upon by a parent, illness, death. There are so many things that I think the audience can identify with.
Grace Gealey
#30. Since felons are subsequently disfranchised, the US now has 1.75 million people disqualified from voting because of their criminality- 1.4 million black men have forfeited their right to vote, almost 15 per cent of the black male population.
Jeremy Seabrook
#32. People called me 'Iman the black model'. In my country, we're all black, so nobody called somebody else black. It was foreign to my ears.
Iman
#33. In the early '70s, I started to feel like Philadelphia soul was the black-sheep brother of rock and roll. I decided to try to get away from it.
Daryl Hall
#34. Most writers stick to what they know. The black experience is our experience, so it's not that challenging for us. That's why sometimes you'll see writers that start off telling black stories, but later branch out into other material. People say they "sell out." No, they evolve as writers.
Lena Waithe
#35. In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the New Left.
Marisha Pessl
#37. In the same way that Occupy Wall Street forever elevated that concept of income inequality, the Black Lives Matter protesters have elevated the idea of inequity in policing as it relates to minority communities.
Charles M. Blow
#38. American mainstream is obsessed with black creative genius - be it music, walk, style - but at the same time puts a low priority on the black social misery which is the very context out of which that creativity flows.
Cornel West
#39. You know the black bits in bananas? Are they tarantulas eggs?
Noel Fielding
#40. Know the white, But keep the black, Be an example to the world! Being an example to the world, Ever true and unwavering, Return to the infinite.
Laozi
#41. I lifted my hand toward the black smoke. People hissed, but when my fingers passed through, there was only uncomfortable warmth. The sylph hummed, calmer.
Jodi Meadows
#42. In fact, very few people on the face of the planet know that the very shape of the M25 forms the sigil *odegra* in the language of the Black Priesthood of Ancient Mu, and means 'Hail the Great Beast, Devourer of Worlds'.
Terry Pratchett
#43. a generation:
the black night gave me black eyes
still I use them to seek the light
Gu Cheng
#44. If the government can't get the black man justice, then it's time for the black man to get some justice for himself.
Malcolm X
#45. The man with the black-and-white-striped eyes shivered, and began hunting for a door, but none of the guests had remembered to bring a door with them.
Neil Gaiman
#46. I only think about you. The black abyss inside my head is obliterated by your light. I'm too absorbed in your tight body and swollen lips. You chase away my demons.
K. Webster
#47. I'm coming for Ryan Seacrest - I want to be the black Ryan Seacrest for BET. I want to host, I want to produce, I want to do everything for the network.
Bow Wow
#48. We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
Rand Paul
#49. Bakhchisaray was formerly the capital of the Crimean khanate and once an important crossroad of the Silk Road, where traders met from across the Black Sea, the steppes of Central Asia, Russia, and eastern Europe.
Tim Cope
#50. The two stallions, the silver and the black, represent the equine god (whomsoever horses pray to) in this ritual so ancient that no one knows what god to thank.
Janet Morris
#51. The black dress of the average witch was usually only theoretically black. In reality, it was often rather dusty, and quite possibly patched in the vicinity of the knees and somewhat ragged at the hem and, of course, very nearly worn through by frequent washings. It was what it was: working clothes.
Terry Pratchett
#52. The Democrats were crushed in the midterm elections. The Republican juggernaut pounded the Democrats, and the pundits say they will not really know what happened to the Democrats until they find the black box.
David Letterman
#53. With satanic joy in his face, the black-haired Jewish youth lurks in wait for the unsuspecting girl whom he defiles with his blood, thus stealing her from her people.
Adolf Hitler
#54. Many of the Jews who owned the homes, the apartments in the black community, we considered them bloodsuckers because they took from our community and built their community but didn't offer anything back to our community.
Louis Farrakhan
#55. And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers.
Buddy Rich
#56. Whose the spiritual people pon earth. The Black people. Dem a deal wit God. And God no let dem down.
Bob Marley
#57. Darkness engulfed me...There was no ground below me, no sky above. Only the black, and the cold.
Amanda Hocking
#58. Why do I need clothes?" she said as she found the black lacy pair she'd been looking for. "Two words -- burnt eggs.
Paige Tyler
#59. The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.
Milton Friedman
#60. A people who have suffered so much for so long at hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere ... the black communities of America must rise up as one man to halt the progression of a trend that leads inevitably to their total destruction.
Bobby Seale
#61. I'm the king of the 20th century. I'm the boogeyman, the villian, the black sheep of the family.
Alan Moore
#62. The black church often has reinforced certain self images that are damaging to black peoples' beauty, black peoples' confidence.
Cornel West
#63. If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
Richard M. Nixon
#64. Save it fucker. I'm gonna slit you open and gut you like a fish and pull out your insides. I'm going to show you the black stuff inside your belly, and then I'm gonna make you eat it.
Brian Keene
#65. Half a capital and half a country town, the whole city leads a double existence; it has long trances of the one and flashes of the other; like the king of the Black Isles, it is half alive and half a monumental marble.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#66. Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.
Dustin Hoffman
#67. Death is the black backing on the mirror that allows us to see anything at all.
Saul Bellow
#68. I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the wrench of transference from a happy home to a school.
Henry George
#69. A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks what's best for all.
Cornel West
#70. Most of the black women who lived in the lower end of Vrededorp came from the countryside and were there to be near their menfolk who worked in the mines. They spoke neither English nor Afrikaans.
Peter Abrahams
#71. The minute you start getting in trouble, you can't try to do new stuff. You can't try to make a nasty pitch or 'paint the black' because that's when you fall behind. You have to stick with what works for you and go after hitters like there's nobody on base.
Mark Mulder
#72. and when you find yourself lost in the darkness and despair, remember it's only in the black of the night you see the stars.
Jenny Markas
#73. All that night he followed bends of the black road jeweled by starlight until the wan light of the dawn touched the east with red and the pastures turned green. (pg. 76)
Robert Olmstead
#74. was freed to truly consider how I wished to live - specifically, how do I live free in this black body? It is a profound question because America understands itself as God's handiwork, but the black body is the clearest evidence that America is the work of men. I
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#76. I've gotten nothing but warmth from the Black community and positive feedback.
Misty Copeland
#77. Coming from Morocco was just different, man. It's a third-world country, and you are trying to make it happen. That's all it is. I didn't have any problem hooking up with the black kids because I'm from North Africa. And as far as Latinos, we are all the same.
French Montana
#78. I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me.
Andre Rieu
#79. I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.
C.L.R. James
#80. Blaming Black mothers, then, is a way of subjugating the Black race as a whole. At the same time, devaluing motherhood is particularly damaging to Black women.
Dorothy Roberts
#81. Where the really sincere white people have got to do their 'proving' of themselves is not among the black victims, but out on the battle lines of where America's racism really is - and that's in their own home communities.
Malcolm X
#82. Nietzsche was so intelligent and advanced. And that's how I am. I'm the black, basketball-playing Nietzsche.
Shaquille O'Neal
#83. Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
Bobby Fischer
#84. There are many positive things to say about the black community. No question about it.
William Julius Wilson
#85. Insofar as we, critics of the black tradition, master our craft, we serve both to preserve our own traditions and to shape their direction. All great writers demand great critics.
Henry Louis Gates
#86. Do not be naive. AIDS is not a curse from God to Africans or the black people. It is a tool to control them designed by some evil-minded scientists, but we may not know who particularly did it.
Wangari Maathai
#87. I admit that the black man is inferior. But what is it that makes him so? It is the ignorance in which white men compel him to live;
Harriet Jacobs
#88. The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
H.P. Lovecraft
#89. The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge and sleek which are characteristics I try to apply when I'm out there on the basketball court.
Kobe Bryant
#90. The costs of engaging in the black market of religion in China are very high. Once found by the authorities, leaders and believers may suffer psychological abuse, physical torture, monetary fines,
Anonymous
#91. Inside the floating cloak he was tall, thin, and bony; and his hair was red beneath the black cap. His face was crumpled and freckled, and ugly without silliness. Out of this face stared two light blue eyes, frustrated now, and turning, or ready to turn, to anger.
William Golding
#92. Master Michelangelo once said that 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.' This is what we must do when we see an ignorant man: To set him free from the black marble we call ignorance!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#93. I try to do much of the necessary alteration on the black and white [cartoons] rather than leave it to be done on the paintings.
E. J. Hughes
#94. I AM the current curator of the black trunk and the stories it holds within.
Hope Barrett
#95. I believe in freedom for everyone, not just the black man.
Bob Marley
#96. How in the hell could God take the black earth and make himself a white man out of it?
Louise Meriwether
#97. I had choosen the path of the black sheep rather than that of the unicorns and puppies.
Magenta Periwinkle
#98. You're all like black boxes here," he said. He meant the black boxes that record information on airplanes. We think that we're living, talking, walking, eating. Loving one another. But we're just recording information!
Svetlana Alexievich
#99. Had they taken her from me, I would willingly have gone with thee into the forest, and signed my name in the Black Man's book too, and that with mine own blood!
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#100. Death ... " The voice dropped even more, black-gloved hands disappearing into the black folds of material. "Don't you feel it? We're all dead here ... all ... very ... dead.
Richie Tankersley Cusick
