Black Quotes

Who could imagine a poet wearing anything other than black?

We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.

Poor white people and poor black people just don’t know how much they have in common. Rich people don’t give a damn about either group.

When a black girl dies; the last thing to decompose is her heart.

I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man’s inhuman treatment of the Negro.

Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.

We ought even to hold as a fixed principle that what I see white I believe to be black, if the superior authorities define it to be so.

Blue green orange red. I could eat all the colors of the rainbow and still see life in black-and-white reruns I’ve watched a thousand times. – rumination.

I’ve changed the way I look a bit but not intentionally. I’ve cut my hair. I’ve got a bit of pink in it and lately I’ve become a bit monochrome, wearing a lot of black and white.

Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.