Famous Quotes & Sayings

I don't see any black clouds on the horizon.

I don't think Gary Black saw himself as a perennial No. 2. I think he took the job hoping to be No. 1 at some point.

Abraham Lincoln

I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office,

I am a black woman/ the music of my song/ some sweet arpeggio of tears/ is written in a minor key/ and I/ can be heard humming in the night/ Can be heard/ humming/ in the night

He's got a special talent, whether he's skiing black diamonds, or running back kicks.

He's (McKie) not going to wave a magic wand and find a loose-head prop that's going to demolish the All Blacks or pull out a winger that will put Rockokoko to shame. That's not his role. There is no quick fix,

Steve Shaw

I can confirm that the black boxes have been recovered.

I call it the BlackBerry prayer. You know, your head is bowed and your hands are in your lap.

Ann Taylor

I don't mean to offend, ... but whites just didn't see that blacks should be included in the history.

I do have personal pride. That's the one black mark. I'm not perfect, and it shows I have room to improve. It doesn't get at me at all. There are no hard feelings.

Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown

Hunter S. Thompson

Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.

Hunter S. Thompson

I may sound a little black, but I'm really pretty well adjusted.

Jamaica Kincaid

A piece of cloth that is called "linen" has more validity than calling you and me "black" or "negro." "Cotton" has more validity as cotton than yours and my being "black."

Certainly the message was directed at African-Americans both inside and outside New Orleans. It's a political message that he intends to be the mayor of a majority black city. But the statement that God intended New Orleans to be majority black certainly could be interpreted as inflammatory by non-black voters.

Larry Fitzgerald

Chicken... I am a black man, we love our chicken, but I don't eat it anymore. My genotype means I don't process it as well as other things. But I eat lamb twice a week; that is a super food for me.

He stuck a pistol in my face. It was a big black gun and looked like a police pistol.

Juan Williams

I'm not a predictable black liberal.

Parker Posey

Black eyeliner says 'You've been through stuff, you know things'.

Learned Hand

Would we hold liberty, we must have charity- charity to others, charity to ourselves, crawling up from the moist ovens of a steaming world, still carrying the passional equipment of our ferocious ancestors, emerging from black superstition amid carnage and atrocity to our perilous present.

Natasha Lyonne

Rather than spend so much time wondering if I'm going to get hired, or is it a problem that I've got this black-tar history, I've just got to keep doing what I'm doing and try to be decent.

Muhammad Ali

I understand that the worst people in England at a time were ran to America, for some reason. Then slavery came and calls of aggression. But we've been there 600 years and there ain't no peace between black and whites because the cultures are different - like the Chinese and Mexicans cannot integrate: the music is different, the eating is different.

Muhammad Ali

Be loud, be pretty and keep their black-hatin' asses in their chairs

Mari Evans

Who can be born black and not exult!

Martin Luther King, Jr.

This is the great new problem of mankind. We have inherited a large house, a great ‘world house’ in which we have to live together– black and white, Easterner and Westerner, Gentile and Jew, Catholic and Protestant, Muslim and Hindu– a family unduly separated in ideas, culture and interest, who, because we can never again live apart, must learn somehow to live with each other in peace.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Whatever my doubts, however heavy the burden, I feel that I must accept the task of helping to make this nation and this world a better place to live in - for all men, black and white alike.

Nicholas D. Kristof

There seems to be this sense among even well-meaning Americans that Africa is this black hole of murder and mutilation that can never be fixed, no matter what aid is brought in.

Nathan Myhrvold

The simplest fix for better grilling is to line the inside of your barbecue with tin foil. It dramatically affects how evenly the heat is distributed. That crusty black hibachi or Weber grill is doing your food no favors.

Naomi Campbell

I'm not angry. And I don't like the thing of the 'angry black woman,' either.

Preet Bharara

In some respects, inside information is a form of financial steroid. It is unfair: it is offensive; it is unlawful; and it puts a black mark on the entire enterprise.

Nelson Mandela

The majority of South Africans, black and white, recognize that apartheid has no future. It has to be ended by our own decisive mass action in order to build peace and security. The mass campaign of defiance and other actions of our organization and people can only culminate in the establishment of democracy.

Noam Chomsky

The criminalization of Black life was something specific to the United States in the post-Reconstruction period and there's something like it happening today with mass incarceration, directed largely against black males.

Oprah Winfrey

I am a product of every other black woman before me who has done or said anything worthwhile. Recognizing that I am part of history is what allows me to soar.