- Free
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Black Quotes
Black holes, bias, and belonging, all in one word.
This collection ranges from cosmic curiosity about black holes and possibility to a pointed observation about racial conditioning and who gets blamed for problems. For quotes on subtler, quieter qualities, see Mystery quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Captain America
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The majority of the DC and Marvel comic lines are white male characters, and the minute you make Thor a woman or Captain America a black guy, the Internet is filled with hateful comments and people saying, 'That's not what Captain America is supposed to look like.'
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The one thing I've learned, getting out to all those foreign and domestic locales, is that people in every country of the 'civilized' world wish - either secretly or openly - that they had the expressiveness, the flair, the I'm-so-glad-to-be-me spirit that black folks have made a part of American life.
- Know
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
You don't have to be a certain thing to be cool. If you're white, you don't have to act black or whatever. Just be you and know who you are.
- Foreign Country
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The reality is, is that the military is full of native nomenclature. That's what we would call it. You've got Black Hawk helicopters, Apache Longbow helicopters. You've got Tomahawk missiles. The term used when you leave a military base in a foreign country is to go 'off the reservation, into Indian Country.'
- Black Or White
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Anything written or printed under a print or picture takes the attention from it and, if it is very black or white in any marked degree, will utterly destroy its beauty.
- War
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
All I can tell you is 'Black Panther' sets up the MCU to go in a really wonderful new direction, sets up a new language, a new world for the MCU to play in, and that construction is then rocked to its core when Thanos enters in 'Infinity War' - get ready.
- Dumb
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I need to not be typecast as big, black, and dumb but be seen as an intelligent, witty, bold, and charismatic person.
- Nov 07, 2020
The film 'Black Orpheus' is one of my favorite films of all time, which is set in Carnival in Brazil.
- Professional
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports.
- Money
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5' 11". So I just picked baseball.
- Making
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I always enjoyed playing ball, and it didn't matter to me whether I played with white kids or black. I never understood why an issue was made of who I played with, and I never felt comfortable, when I grew up, telling other people how to act.
- Look
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My training in martial arts was kind of a crash course in how to look like a black belt. I know the moves of a black belt - my kicks, and my stretches, and my punches and all that.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him have a chance to rise by his own efforts.
- History
- |
- Nov 07, 2020