Black Quotes

I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.
Bob Marley

God, Stand, Side

Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.
Bob Marley

Live, Together, Happen

Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.
Jim Morrison

Remember, Actually, Born

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
Maya Angelou

Women, Men, Lonely

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.
Marcus Garvey

Rather, Greatness, National

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
Frederick Douglass

Freedom, Progress, Republican

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
Muhammad Ali

Men, Two, Boxing

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.
Groucho Marx

Path, Animal, Somewhere

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.
Barack Obama

America, United, Liberal

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.
Muhammad Ali

Long, Made, Free

I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.
Michael Jordan

Person, Wish, Realize

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.
Eminem

Past, Person, Between

It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.
Tupac Shakur

God, Judge, Struggle

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
Nelson Mandela

Whether, White, Detest

When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.
Eminem

Mind, Trying, Friends

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'
Marilyn Monroe

Women, Men, Accept

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
H. L. Mencken

Times, Normal, Hands

There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'.
Eminem

Feeling, Through, While

But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?
Robert Kennedy

God, Lives, Heaven

There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy?
Will Smith

Father, Friends, Negative

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
Vince Lombardi

Win, Player, Inside

I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.
Marcus Garvey

Good, Here, Desire

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
John Wayne

Everything, Why, Hell

If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.
Barack Obama

Free, Leader, Choice

Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.
Mae West

Big, Space, Audience

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
Tiger Woods

Men, Basketball, Hockey

It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.
Bill Cosby

Beautiful, Matter, White

I wasn't always black... there was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.
Bill Cosby

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
Barack Obama

Friends, Students, Avoid

The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.
Nelson Mandela

Effort, Act, Africa

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