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Quotes About Black

As long as black people preserve their culture in Harlem, Harlem will always be alive.
~ Cheo Hodari Coker
It's not impossible for a woman - a Black woman - to become President.
~ Carol Moseley Braun
The first black president will be a politician who is black.
~ Douglas Wilder
I would say 'Gremlins,' 'Die Hard,' and 'Black Christmas' are all pretty good Christmas movies that aren't really about Christmas.
~ James Roday
As a father of two black sons now, you ask yourself, 'What do I have to do to assure the safety of these boys?' It can be daunting.
~ Sterling K. Brown
For whatever reason, gay characters, or characters that deal with sexuality issues, who are black, in 'black films'... are typically not dealt with with any sort of complexity. They're exoticized: their being gay is sort of the point.
~ Justin Simien
I don't wear a lot of color because I live in New York, and I'm sort of color-blind, so colors don't match to me a lot of the times, and it makes me anxious. So I'll always defer back to black.
~ Verite
I wasn't young, I wasn't pretty, and I was a black woman looking for success in a business where those attributes were certainly not in demand in the 1960s.
~ Isabel Sanford
I can never kind of fathom a character's journey beyond the moment when you go to black, any more than when people ask me what Jason Patric did with the tape recorder at the end of 'Narc,' you know what I mean? Even in 'Blood, Guts,' like, what happens down the road with these characters?
~ Joe Carnahan
My 'Black Panther' run really wasn't about Black Panther. It was about Ross. It was about exploding myths about black superheroes, black characters, and black people, targeted specifically at a white, male-dominated retailer base.
~ Christopher Priest
Sorrows are like thunder-clouds: in the distance they look black, over our heads, hardly gray.
~ Richter
A telkhine was hunched over a console, but he was so involved with his work, he didn't notice us. He was about five feet tall, with slick black seal fur and stubby little feet. He had the head of a Doberman, but his clawed hands were almost human. He growled and muttered as he tapped on his keyboard. Maybe he was messaging his friends on uglyface.com.
~ Rick Riordan
Black collegians created BGFs in an effort to provide the interpersonal, social, educational, and professional support denied to them in many U.S. social and political structures, but they did not autonomously create the process of violent initiation.
~ Ricky L. Jones
Prendergast's face appeared even whiter, his veins even blacker, like a living corpse. He kept twitching, shaking. His eyes shot around him as if he was surrounded by invisible, swooping demons.
~ Rob Lloyd Jones
Those clouds above formed a pattern that looked familiar. Black on white, white on black. It's the symbol, she realized with a start. The ancient symbol of the Aes Sedai. Under this sign...shall he conquer.
~ Robert Jordan
Consider the true picture. Think of myriads of tiny bubbles, very sparsely scattered, rising through a vast black sea. We rule some of the bubbles. Of the waters we know nothing...
~ Larry Niven Jerry Pournelle
White teas required only one to two minutes, and black teas between two and three minutes, while herbal teas could steep for three to six minutes.
~ Laura Childs
The sun is setting in a burnt orange sky; the cliffs are black silhouettes; the sea, liquid silver.
~ Laura Treacy Bentley
Rafael, the Rat King, stared at the carnage with black-button eyes. She is dead. Ding dong, the witch is dead
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Right now, I couldn't have cared less if someone had waltzed across the room in a large flower costume with a sign saying GET YOUR BLACK TULIPS HERE. Every nerve in my body was on man-alert, screaming, incoming!
~ Lauren Willig
A Frenchman, judging from the black turtleneck and the fact that his armpit was a deodorant-free zone.
~ Lauren Willig
Eating plain toast will detonate her. I'll have some honey. When the bread is done I scrape on a microscopic layer of it and pour a cup of coffee, black. She pretends not to listen or watch as I crunch through my breakfast. I pretend that I don't notice her pretending.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Thine eyes I love, and they as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black, and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain.
~ William Shakespeare
As Believers, we shine brightest in a sad and dark world; like a diamond that illuminates best when placed on black velvet.
~ Chris Alexander