All Quotes

Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G.
‐‐ Lionel Hampton

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.
‐‐ Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Black audiences are hard. They always think they're better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.
‐‐ Bernie Mac

Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
‐‐ Dan Buettner

Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone at night. I picked up two stones just in case, but I wasn't afraid of him. I felt a hunter's exhilaration and a brotherly feeling.
‐‐ Edward Hoagland

'Black Beauty,' by Anna Sewell, remains a star-dusted memory because my mom read it aloud to my sister and me at night for months. I was no more than 7.
‐‐ Scott Turow

Black beauty - he's a dark horse.
‐‐ Tim Vine

Black Bolt is typically a stoic leader, part of a larger cast of Inhumans who get their hands dirty in ways that he doesn't.
‐‐ Charles Soule

Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical.
‐‐ Dylan Moran

Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
‐‐ Toni Morrison

Black, brown, white, yellow - why are we always talking about colors? I'm a girl. I believe in a global community.
‐‐ Priyanka Chopra

Black coffee is the latest fad I have picked up. Then there are my endless cups of chai! I'm trying to cut down and keep it to no more than three cups a day.
‐‐ Vidya Balan

Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play.
‐‐ Peter Shaffer

Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.
‐‐ Steven Biko

Black Consciousness seeks to infuse the black community with a new-found pride in themselves, their efforts, their value systems, their culture, their religion and their outlook to life.
‐‐ Steven Biko

Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
‐‐ Eddie Huang

Black culture is a fight. We want to hold on to what we are, but sometimes the things that we are can be totally negative. You have to think: can't we try something new and not be seen as suspect?
‐‐ Donald Glover

Black culture is something I don't relate to much at all.
‐‐ Dennis Rodman

Black English is simpler than standard English in some ways; for example, it often gets by with just 'be' and drops 'am,' 'is,' and 'are.' That's because black English arose when adult African slaves learned the language.
‐‐ John McWhorter

Black English is something which - it's a natural system in itself. And even though it is a dialect of English, it can be very difficult for people who don't speak it, or who haven't been raised in it, to understand when it's running by quickly, spoken in particular by young men colloquially to each other. So that really is an issue.
‐‐ John McWhorter

Black Fergusonians have shown that they will vote when they have something to vote for and know that their vote will count. Seventy-six percent of them turned out in November 2012, when Missouri was a key swing state for Barack Obama's reelection.
‐‐ Rick Perlstein

'Black film,' that term allows studios to just marginalize a movie and say, 'We've made our black film. We've made our film with people of color in it,' as opposed to, 'I just feel like people of color should be in every genre.'
‐‐ Gina Prince-Bythewood

Black Flag was formed in 1977. We first recorded in 1978.
‐‐ Greg Ginn

Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It's the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday, seen as the semi-official start of Christmas shopping season.
‐‐ Evan Davis

Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.
‐‐ Georg Trakl

Black girls, I feel, rock, in so many ways, especially coming from five girls.
‐‐ Alek Wek

Black glutinous rice works in both savoury and sweet dishes. It's a popular pudding rice in south-east Asia, where you'll often come across it cooked with water, coconut milk and a pandan leaf.
‐‐ Yotam Ottolenghi

Black history is American history.
‐‐ Morgan Freeman

Black history isn't a separate history. This is all of our history, this is American history, and we need to understand that. It has such an impact on kids and their values and how they view black people.
‐‐ Karyn Parsons

Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.
‐‐ Marty Meehan

Black holes are pretty scary when you ponder them. They seem nihilistic, infinitely destructive on an inconceivable scale, notwithstanding the ideas of Hawking radiation.
‐‐ James Marsh

Black holes are very exotic objects. Technically, a black hole puts a huge amount of mass inside of zero volume. So our understanding of the center of black holes doesn't make sense, which is a big clue to physicists that we don't have our physics quite right.
‐‐ Andrea M. Ghez

Black holes can bang against space-time as mallets on a drum and have a very characteristic song.
‐‐ Janna Levin

Black holes destroy any objects that happen to fall victim to their gravitational pull.
‐‐ Kevin McCarthy

Black holes provide theoreticians with an important theoretical laboratory to test ideas. Conditions within a black hole are so extreme, that by analyzing aspects of black holes we see space and time in an exotic environment, one that has shed important, and sometimes perplexing, new light on their fundamental nature.
‐‐ Brian Greene

Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can't get out, but the puzzle that many struggled with over the decades is, what happens to the information that an object contains when it falls into a black hole. Is it simply lost?
‐‐ Brian Greene

Black is not a color.
‐‐ Edouard Manet

Black is overrated. You'll never find it in my stores. Of course it's slimming, but it's just used too much, especially for men. One black suit by one designer, another one by another - they all look the same in the end. If I walk into a crowded hotel lobby and I'm wearing a black suit, I just look like everyone else.
‐‐ Brunello Cucinelli

Black jurors sit on juries every day and convict black people every day.
‐‐ Johnnie Cochran

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.
‐‐ Louis Farrakhan

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
‐‐ Toni Morrison

Black lives certainly do matter - that's one thing. But, it's just that in every profession, there are bad, as well as there are good. I think it's wrong to make cops - or any group - out to be the enemy based on a generalization. Stigmas and generalizations about groups are what get this world into such turmoil.
‐‐ Reginald VelJohnson

Black lives do matter, and our lives do hold value.
‐‐ Marcia Fudge

Black lives matter. They do. And Indian. And Asian. Hispanic and white. All those lives matter. We should fight for all life, including life of the unborn.
‐‐ Sean Duffy

Black man, you are on your own.
‐‐ Steven Biko

Black-marketeers are really knowing, intelligent, and ordinarily responsible people, and when they indulge in black-marketing, I think they ought to be very severely punished because they undermine the entire system of control and regulation of foodstuffs and essential commodities, and cause wholesale starvation and want and even death.
‐‐ Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'
‐‐ Marilyn Monroe

Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.
‐‐ Jesse Jackson

Black men struggle with masculinity so much. The idea that we must always be strong really presses us all down - it keeps us from growing.
‐‐ Donald Glover

'Black Messiah' is a hell of a name for an album. It can easily be misunderstood. Many will think it's about religion. Some will jump to the conclusion that I'm calling myself a Black Messiah. For me, the title is about all of us. It's about the world. It's about an idea we can all aspire to. We should all aspire to be a Black Messiah.
‐‐ D'Angelo