Quotations About / On: BLACK

Better have a black face than be worried about black deeds.

The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around.

The world is not black and white. More like black and grey.

The twilight is long fingers and black hair.

In the United States the whites speak well of the Blacks but think bad about them, whereas the Blacks talk bad and think bad about the whites. Whites fear Blacks, because they have a bad conscience, and Blacks hate whites because they need not have a bad conscience.

If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.

A body would think that your heart was as black as your face. People thinks now that sweeps is black all through instead of black all over.

A black boxer's career is the perfect metaphor for the career of a black male. Every day is like being in the gym, sparring with impersonal opponents as one faces the rudeness and hostility that a black male must confront in the United States, where he is the object of both fear and fascination.

Elvis' disappearing body is like a flashing event horizon at the edge of the black hole that is America today.

... the Black woman in America can justly be described as a "slave of a slave."