Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ta-Nehisi Coates

To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.

Ronald Reagan

The White House is the leakiest place I've ever been in. (On special measures to ensure secrecy of plans to bomb Libya)

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election.

Malcolm X

He [liberal white person] may stand with you through thin, but not thick; when the chips are down, you'll find that as fixed in him as his bone structure is his sometimes subconscious conviction that he's better than anybody black.

Malcolm X

There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.

Malcolm X

America is subsidizing what is left of the prestige and strength of the once mighty Britain. The sun has set forever on that monocled, pith-helmeted resident colonialist, sipping tea with his delicate lady in the non-white colonies being systematically robbed of every valuable resource. Britain's superfluous royalty and nobility now exist by charging tourists to inspect the once baronial castles, and by selling memoirs, perfumes, autographs, titles, and even themselves.

Malcolm X

I'm with an old family" was the euphemism used to dignify the professions of white folks' cooks and maids who talked so affectedly among their own kind in Roxbury [Massachusetts] that you couldn't even understand them.

Malcolm X

It is incorrect to classify the revolt of the Negro as simply a radical conflict of black against white or as a purely American problem. Rather, we are today seeing a global rebellion of the oppressed against the oppressor, the exploited against the exploiter.

Malcolm X

The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.

John Milton

Black it stood as night, / Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, / And shook a dreadful dart.

Anne Rice

I am not times fool, nor a god hardened by the millennia; I am not the trickster in the black cape nor the sorrowful wanderer. I have a conscience. I know right from wrong I know what I do and yes, I do it. I am the Vampire Lestat. That's your answer do with it as you will.

Andrew Sullivan

The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting.

D. H. Lawrence

Along the avenue of cypresses, All in their scarlet cloaks and surplices Of linen, go the chanting choristers, The priests in gold and black, the villagers. . . .

Cuba Gooding, Jr.

I am admiring of my fellow peers, black filmmakers and black actors and actresses.

Danny Glover

Democracy is about criticism. I didn't elect Obama because he's a black; I voted for Obama because he was the right person at the time. Period. The exceptionalism of a black U.S. President is not important to me. It's what he does. And who he has at the table. And what he does to change the world - that's what's important.

Curt Flood

I am pleased that God made my skin black - but I wish He had made it thicker.

Andre Leon Talley

The zenith of elegance in any woman's wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement.

Alice Childress

And realizing there is no such thing as the Black experience. Time and events allow for change on both sides.

Richard Branson

To stand still today is to go backwards...and quickly...!

Bob Gilder

I think I made more putts today than I've made all year,

Hermann Hesse

The bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow.

Henri Matisse

I was driven on by.. A force which I see today as something alien to my normal life... so I have been no more than a medium as it were.

Hayley Williams

I needed music today. And like always it was there for me.

Helen Reddy

Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.

Hideo Kojima

Super Mario Bros. is equivalent to the Big Bang of our gaming universe. If it were not for this blindingly spectacular creation, digital entertainment as we know it today would not exist.

Henry Fielding

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

Larry Foote

They showed us today why they're the champs.