Quotes on Black

In the Fifties, there were certain places we couldn't ride on the bus, and now there is a possibility of a black man being in the White House. You have to feel good about it.

If you think about the way we experience art, the paradigm is still Western European. If I go to the National Gallery, what am I going to see the most of? I'm not going to see a whole lot of black figures in pictures.

There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity.

Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side, not the white man's side. Me dip on God's side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

From 1968 on, I was pretty much the black, gay SF writer.

We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.

I can't even see me wasting my time or my talent to disrespect another black man.

Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.

The death penalty is an inhumane punishment that disproportionately violates the human rights of Black, brown, indigenous, and other marginalized people.

We must begin to tell black women's stories because, without them, we cannot tell the story of black men, white men, white women, or anyone else in this country. The story of black women is critical because those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it.

The empowerment of black women constitutes the empowerment of our entire community.

Black women's intersectional experiences of racism and sexism have been a central but forgotten dynamic in the unfolding of feminist and antiracist agendas.

There are many, many different kinds of intersectional exclusions - not just black women but other women of color. Not just people of color, but people with disabilities. Immigrants. LGBTQ people. Indigenous people.

O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?

When you go to an art museum, the thing you're least likely to encounter is a picture of a black person. When it comes to ideas about art and about beauty, the black figure is absent.

One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.

People can have the Model T in any color – so long as it’s black.

The cool thing about dope black style becoming in style is that the industry has no choice but to try and reduplicate that.

Black Power can be clearly_x000D_ defined for those who do not_x000D_ attach the fears of white America_x000D_ to their questions about it.

I was so fortunate to play my club cricket at Moseley Ashfield. We had loads of Asians, white players, black players. You grow up from that knowing it just doesn't matter what religion or culture people are into, everyone is different.

I want history to remember me... not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of the United States, but as a black woman who lived in the 20th century and who dared to be herself. I want to be remembered as a catalyst for change in America.