Quotes on Black

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being.

Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination - employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food stamps and other public benefits, and exclusion from jury service - are suddenly legal. As a criminal, you have scarcely more rights, and largely less respect, than a black man living in Alabama at the height of Jim Crow. We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.

Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview.'

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

The working-class black Southern Christian culture I come from still nurtures me, and I mean directly, daily.

In the end, the only heritage we have is our planet, and I have decided to go to the most pristine places on the planet and photograph them in the most honest way I know, with my point of view, and of course it is in black and white, because it is the only thing I know how to do.

What comes forth from you as an artist cannot be controlled. But you have responsibilities as a global citizen. Your history dictates your duty. And by writing about black people, you are not limiting yourself. The experiences of African-Americans are as wide open as God's closet.

I ain't going to jail no more. The only_x000D_ way we gonna stop them white men from whuppin' us is to take over._x000D_ What we gonna start sayin' now is Black Power!

That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free.

Reconstruction is the great black hole that remains to be filled. Even experts on the Civil War don't really understand its full significance.

Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.

I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

When you were straight, evil thoughts and memories came pouring up out of the darkness inside you; buzzing black flies clinging to the insides of your skull.

I had a wonderful father, and I couldn't bear that television virtually ignored black fathers.

Black man, you are on your own.

I am a Black woman raised by parents who were active in the civil-rights movement.

In fact, black students with college degrees are twice as likely to be unemployed as white students with college degrees. So, to say there there is not an issue for black Americans and Latinos in terms of the opportunity that college is supposed to create would be wrong.

We put stereotypes on ourselves. Everybody does that. But I think it's just a little harder for black kids to just be who they are.

Every day of my life I walk with the idea that I am black, no matter how successful I am. And our success is tempered by that; you're successful in this way given the fact you are black, and most blacks don't get to that point.

I love black dresses. I think everyone should own a lot, but black dresses don't sell online because on the computer they don't read like anything.