Famous Quotes & Sayings

She goes to a cocktail party that's a sea of little black dresses and it's get boring. So she comes in with this little opulent couture pastel complexion cocktail, and they're so charming.

She dressed as a goth, wore dark eye make-up and a long black coat, but was a neat, clean girl.

Charles Barron

She doesn't play the gender card or the race card in the debates, but when she's in the streets and in the churches, she makes it very clear that she's a proud black woman who is out to make history,

She passed as a black woman. She was treated as a black woman. That is her place in history. She did not try to pass as a white woman.

She looks really tired. She had really black circles under her eyes and her hair was kind of messed up.

We have a responsibility to see that the business of the city is run efficiently; we must run it in the black and not be in the negative, ... It's unfortunate, but it comes down to if you can run the business effectively.

Bill Cowher

We have an unbelievable fan base. You go around the country and pull into hotels, there is always black and gold and Steelers fans hollering. There is no question it goes back to the rich tradition this team has and this organization built back in the '70s. What we are seeing now is the second generation of that fan base. It's great.

We have heard reports of people with a lot of money, including sports figures, trying to one up each other by buying exotic fish such as black tip reef sharks. We're concerned that reefs might be wrecked and fish depleted.

Brian May

Einstein got most of the things right about black holes. I'm not an expert, I must admit

Bow Wow

I'm coming for Ryan Seacrest - I want to be the black Ryan Seacrest for BET. I want to host, I want to produce, I want to do everything for the network.

Let's call it a black eye. Black eyes look ugly for a bit, but they go away. Hopefully, a few lessons will have been learned.

James Oliver

Many people, blacks as well as whites, have some trouble having the story of slavery told in a major public venue, ... But we do not have the right not to tell the story.

James Allen

Many times they would lynch someone by a railroad track so that passing trains would see and pass the word on and also as a form of intimidation to people in surrounding black community.

Many times, black businesses are under-utilized or overlooked.

Senator, I am one of them. You do not seem to understand who I am. I am a black woman, the daughter of a dining-car worker If my life has any meaning at all, it is that those who start out as outcasts can wind up as being part of the system.

Security is a frustrating business. And the hardest thing to do is stop an internal black hat. The risk can't ever totally be eliminated -- it can only be minimized.

Gerard Way

So how was Christmas for you guys? Did you all get lots of nice black tee shirts?

She was the blackest white woman in the world. She was a white woman passing for black in a black world.

She showed the power of black women, ... A woman who stood for justice, a matriarch.

When I hear of an 'equity' in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat - which isn't there.

Diane Keaton

Why black and white? Because color can be too demanding.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.

Eddie Trunk

Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.

Ever since the romantic comedy-drama 'She's Gotta Have It' antagonized black women and black men in 1986, Spike Lee's films have enjoyed the outrage of various groups.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The most formidable of all the ills that threaten the future of the Union arises from the presence of a black population upon its territory; and in contemplating the cause of the present embarrassments, or the future dangers of the United States, the observer is invariably led to this as a primary fact.

Alexei Navalny

I'm on the very blackest part of the black list.

Issa Rae

I would love 'Awkward Black Girl' to be on television, with the right team of people who understand and get it. If 'Awkward Black Girl' could make it to HBO starring a dark-skinned black girl, that would be revolutionary.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

There is a perception within our community and the world that black people don't love each other. That we don't fight for each other. That perception is so dangerous. We need positive images to counter the negative portrayals we see every day. And positive doesn't mean perfect. Perfect is boring.

Vincent Bugliosi

'Helter-Skelter' was the motive for the murders. Manson borrowed that term from a Beatles song on the 'White Album.' In England, helter-skelter is a playground ride. To Manson, helter-skelter meant a war between whites and blacks that the Beatles were in favor of.

Billy Graham

My father had a dairy farm. He employed three black families and one white family, and I used to play with black children.

The patient is not out of hospital yet, but he's not dying. This black cloud is dispersing a bit. A couple of heads should roll, but most likely not very important.

Richard Lamm

We must recognize that all the civil rights laws in the world are not going to solve the problem of minority underachievement. Ultimately, blacks and Hispanics are going to have to see that their solution is largely in their own hands.

Taye Diggs

Like I went out to a predominantly black club last night and nobody said anything and I was wishing somebody would so that someone would dance with me.