Quotes About Black

They are pursued by a pair of hawk-faced men dressed in black and white: both forbidding, both hungry, but one tall and slender, the other short and fat. Two reflections of the same soul in the cosmic house of mirrors, or uncanny coincidence? It is impossible to say.

My philosophy, like color television, is all there in black and white.

Self-pity is not a pleasant emotion and is a fruitless one as well, for its point of no return is an onset of black despair in very short order.

The free black community, especially in the border states, steadily increased at the turn of the nineteenth century. No black population grew more dramatically during the early years of the republic than Maryland's. Its free people of color made up the second largest free black population in 1790—and became the largest free black population of any state by 1810.

Compte tenu de la rareté relative des Allemands noirs et du nombre élevé de figurants nécessités par l'usine à images de Goebbels, le cinéma devint un moyen privilégié de survie pour échapper au pire.

sur ce camp comme sur d'autres, on possède d'assez nombreux témoignages anglais sur le racisme américain envers leurs codétenus noirs.

The big television crouched in the shadowy beam of the porch light. Mattie could see its black, open face, and she felt as though she were looking into the mouth of a deep, dangerous cave.

I am girl of definitions, of logic, of black and white. Remember this.

I looked into her eyes, and saw my own staring back, the same peculiar shade, pale grey, flecked with yellow, rimmed with black. Now I knew the nature of her debt. It had weighed on her conscience for fourteen years. I was looking into the eyes of mother and I knew that I would never see her again.

Legend gathered around him, swirling around him like a great black cloak.

I feel truly blessed to be one of the many black women who are leading ladies on television.

There was a manifesto in the late '60s/early '70s, and it basically laid out what 'black art' was and that it should embrace black history and black culture. There were all these rules - I was shocked, when I found it in a book, that it even existed, that it would demarcate these artists.

The party lines don't change, that's what makes them a party and you'd be a fool to think that just because there's a black man in there it's not gonna change the real foundation of the system. Especially when you look at his largest contributor to his campaign, AIG, one of the culprits in the economic meltdown itself.

Barack Obama is not black America's messiah.

I try not to read the stuff online because it's so hurtful and stuff. There was somebody that said I was messing up my genetics by dating my boyfriend because he's not black. It was an interesting thing to read.

I was a big fan of hardcore music growing up, black metal.

I like thrash metal and black metal, stuff like that.

I've always said if you're comparing movies to music, then horror would be the black metal of the categories.

I really love 'Killchain' - it's got this groove, it's the groove I always talk about in death metal and black metal, people try to discredit it but you cannot deny it.

I'm the only tenured black faculty in the sciences at Columbia, in the middle of Harlem.

My composition often goes toward the black middle class or the black super-wealthy or strong historical black figures.

There was a criticism of 'Milk' that I found truth in, which was that it was focused on gay white men.

I was doing economic development for minorities. I was getting black folks to use their dollars to help each other.

Her companion, also in black, appeared as a well-formed young woman about 18, completely possessed of that ephemeral precious essence youth, which is itself beauty, irrespective of complexion or contour.