Black Quotes

The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.

The world is a severe schoolmaster, for its frowns are less dangerous than its smiles and flatteries, and it is a difficult task to keep in the path of wisdom.

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

Perhaps some are confused because they have stereotypes of how blacks should be and I respectfully decline, as I did in my youth, to sacrifice who I am for who they think I should be.

I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won.

Instead of going to the gym, I dress in black – a lot more practical and much more fun.

It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn’t stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.

Green and black go well together, dont they?

I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white.

You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!