Quotes and Sayings About Black

One symptom of his (Hitler) being strangely at variance with reality, or the nature of things,was his gift for wearing inappropriate of ludicrous clothing...When he was supposed to be starting a militaristic revolution he was wearing evening dress and an ill-fitting black tailcoat...and his army medals.
-- A. N. Wilson

#Army #Reality #Black

Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write. On you go.
-- A.L. Kennedy

#Writing #Self #Black

I'm nothing you can catch now. I am black powder, I am singe, I am the bomb that bursts the night.
-- A.M. Homes

#Night #Black #Bombs

People are gonna look up to me because I'm young, black, and female.
-- Aaliyah

#People #Black #Female

My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.
-- Aaron Levie

#Coffee #Hands #Black

I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.
-- Aaron McGruder

#Black #Made #Mass

Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.
-- Abdelkader El Djezairi

#Death #Black #Camels

Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.
-- Aberjhani

#Brother #Son #Black

Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.
-- Aberjhani

#Black #Assumption #Individual

I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
-- Abraham Verghese

#Believe #Past #Black

I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
-- Ad Reinhardt

#Ideas #Black #Want

There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.
-- Ad Reinhardt

#Black #Shadow #Dull

Women are so perverse. Look how they won't wear black when nothing suits them so well!
-- Ada Leverson

#Black #Looks #Suits

Eventually I got the call for 'Iron Man,' and I read sides that had nothing to do with what I did in the movie, and I performed it once while no one was in the room - it was videotaped, and I'm sure Shane Black was watching it from his helicopter or something. And then I got a call the next day that I was going down to shoot it.
-- Adam Pally

#Men #Iron #Black

In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don't start, it's either the fuel system or the electrical system. Teach yourself about the path of each in your engine and tracing it is fairly straightforward. But at the beginning, mastering each new system seems like an unreachable shore. The car is effectively a black box.
-- Adam Savage

#Simple #Car #Black

Some, while deploring animal abuses, on the same breath approve 'benefits to humans from certain animal abuses'! Who would criticize the Jewish holocaust or Black slavery, and YET praise the benefits to Germans or Whites??? This convenient ambiguity at the expense of animals is unacceptable!!!
-- Adela Popescu

#Animal #Holocaust #Black

I'm like Johnny Cash. I only wear black.
-- Adele

#Self Esteem #Black #Cash

The material of typography is the black, and it is the designer’s task with the help of this black to capture space, to create harmonious whites inside the letters as well as between them.
-- Adrian Frutiger

#Space #Black #Tasks

Black smoke, the flickering sister of fire.
-- Aeschylus

#Fire #Black

The only difference is now more young black men are in the spotlight.
-- Afeni Shakur

#Men #Differences #Black

You have to look at the fact that Hip Hop is under attack. It's not just Hip Hop but Black people, Latino people and all people are under attack for different things.
-- Afrika Bambaataa

#People #Hip Hop #Black

They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be carried out in the streets. That's like when they tell you after you buy your VHS and you rent movies they tell you not to copy the movies.
-- Afrika Bambaataa

#Disrespect #Black #Criminals

I'm black, and black don't crack. It does droop.
-- Aisha Tyler

#Black #Doe #Cracks

Who is your opponent tonight, tonight I am playing against the Black pieces
-- Akiba Rubinstein

#Black #Pieces #Opponents

My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So. . .you're black.
-- Al Roker

#College #Silence #Black

I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
-- Al Sharpton

#Holiday #Black #Goes On

If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey... then I should be praised for it, and it's more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.
-- Al Sharpton

#Loss #Media #Black

If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
-- Al Sharpton

#Passion #Wife #Black

Black Americans make up 10 or 11% of the population, but they account now for something of 40 to 45% of all the abortions. This is a privileged position that I'm not sure anyone in their right mind would aspire to.
-- Alan Keyes

#Abortion #Mind #Black

I know what's good for me. I can't play black or gray. I can't be a villain or anything close to one. I have to play white
-- Alan Ladd

#Play #White #Black