Welcome to Black Quotes, a curated collection of thought-provoking and inspirational quotes that celebrate the rich cultural heritage, resilience, and achievements of the Black community. This page serves as a tribute to the voices that have shaped history, challenged the status quo, and continue to inspire change. Within these pages, you’ll find a diverse range of quotes from prominent Black leaders, activists, artists, and thinkers, spanning various aspects of life, from civil rights and social justice to art, literature, and personal empowerment.
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There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce. Carl Sagan
The American dream comes from opportunity. The opportunity comes from our founding principles, our core values that’s held together and protected by the Constitution. Those ideas are neither Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal, white, or black. Those are American ideologies. Ted Yoho
The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge and sleek which are characteristics I try to apply when I’m out there on the basketball court. Kobe Bryant
Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black. James Baldwin
I want to be known for what I am, black and white, because I’m proud of both. Logic
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
I don’t believe there’s two sides to every story. It’s black and white. There’s right and wrong. Joe Wurzelbacher
The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet. William Butler Yeats
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
A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. Groucho Marx
I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly. Bessie Coleman
Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people. Coretta Scott King
Won’t it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history. Maya Angelou
There’s so much grey to every story – nothing is so black and white. Lisa Ling
Basically what I’m trying to tell you is that it’s almost impossible to drive a jet ski at night time unless you’re in a city with lights lit up so you can navigate. Besides being pitch black, that water turn black at night. Listen, I don’t recommend it. DJ Khaled
We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict. Nathan Bedford Forrest
Life isn’t always black and white. You’re not always sure you’re right. At least I’m not. Brad Paisley
Black men struggle with masculinity so much. The idea that we must always be strong really presses us all down – it keeps us from growing. Donald Glover
We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation’s greatness. Yvette Clarke
Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
I love black and white and very simple and classic clothes. Vogue Williams
The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn’t see many paintings with black people in them. Jean-Michel Basquiat
A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people. Toni Morrison
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
I once had an extraordinary experience with former prime minister Ted Heath. Both of his eyes, including the whites, turned jet black, and I seemed to be looking into two black holes. David Icke
I’m light-skinned. I’m mixed with black and white. Trae Young
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey. Graham Greene
I see the world in black and white, and I don’t like compromising. Greta Thunburg
You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There’s a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that’s just begun. James Weldon Johnson
That little man in black there, he says women can’t have as much rights as men ’cause Christ wasn’t a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him. Sojourner Truth
I’ve said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed. B. B. King
My favorite color is black. Johnny Depp
A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments that God has laid aside His mercy. Charles Spurgeon
Intersectionality is an analytic sensibility, a way of thinking about identity and its relationship to power. Originally articulated on behalf of black women, the term brought to light the invisibility of many constituents within groups that claim them as members but often fail to represent them. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
Life isn’t black or white, it’s all sorts of shades of grey. Nicky Morgan
It’s really rare in life that a situation is as black and white as we tend to paint it. Aesop Rock
My mother is black, from Grenada, so my blackness was always there, but It wasn’t until I started hanging with the upperclassmen black actors at my high school that I really got my roots in being a black American, which is a distinctly different identity and experience. Amanda Seales
Life isn’t black and white. It’s a million gray areas, don’t you find? Ridley Scott
I’m a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity. Michael Jackson
Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans. Thomas Sowell
It doesn’t matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice. Deng Xiaoping
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
Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white. William Blake
We are all somewhere or the other a little grey, not black and white. We have our imperfections. Kriti Sanon
The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness. Marcus Garvey
I get that racism exists, but it’s not a catalyst for my content. I don’t need to talk about race to have material. My style of comedy is more self-deprecating. I think that makes me more relatable. When you deal with ‘topics’ – race, white versus black – you’re not separating from the pack. You’re doing what everybody else is doing. Kevin Hart
I believe in God, who made of one blood all nations that on earth do dwell. I believe that all men, black and brown and white, are brothers, varying through time and opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and the possibility of infinite development. W. E. B. Du Bois
First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that. Carlos Santana
I wasn’t shy, but I was really hyper. Nobody got my sense of humor. I was a black skater kid. Tyler, The Creator
I’m very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That’s my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it’s not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question. Denzel Washington
Do you realize that if you fall into a black hole, you will see the entire future of the Universe unfold in front of you in a matter of moments and you will emerge into another space-time created by the singularity of the black hole you just fell into? Neil deGrasse Tyson
The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren’t as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young. Maeve Binchy
Black man, you are on your own. Steven Biko
A mirror reflects what you see, and a black mirror shows the dark side of it. Madeline Brewer
I was a goth in my student days. I dyed my hair black, but it came out grey, with a blue scalp. Then I dyed it red and it came out fuschia pink. Alice Roberts
As far as playing, I didn’t care who guarded me – red, yellow, black. I just didn’t want a white guy guarding me, because it’s disrespect to my game. Larry Bird
In the 1920s prohibition in the US notoriously failed to tackle alcohol use, led to lethal forms of liquor entering the black market, fuelled organised crime and its associated violence, and wasted public money. Owen Jones
I’ll always love the time I spent making ‘Black and White.’ Peter Molyneux
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
Motown was about music for all people – white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone. Berry Gordy
Although humans see reality in colour, for me, black and white has always been connected to the image’s deeper truth, to its most hidden meaning. Peter Lindbergh
I had a vision – and I saw white spirits and black spirits engaged in battle, and the sun was darkened – the thunder rolled in the Heavens, and blood flowed in streams – and I heard a voice saying, ‘Such is your luck, such are you called to see, and let it come rough or smooth, you must surely bear it.’ Nat Turner
Everything’s not black and white. We choose to make bad decisions or not. Will Arnett
I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture. Lauryn Hill
The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it’s kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well. Iris Apfel
The Zionists indeed learnt well from the Nazis. So well that it seems that their morally repugnant treatment of the Palestinians, and their attempts to destroy Palestinian society within Israel and the occupied territories, reveals them as basically Nazis with beards and black hats. Norman Finkelstein
Things are not quite so simple always as black and white. Doris Lessing
We’ve said from the very beginning Black Lives Matter is a network and also, as a broad set of individuals, is an organization moving to transform the way our society values black lives. It’s not an ‘Internet movement.’ Alicia Garza
If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‘Why the hell not?’ John Wayne
I got the genetics of – not to get into racism or anything – but I’m built like a black man. Brock Lesnar
In tragedy, it’s hard to find a good resolution; it’s not black and white: it’s a big fog of gray. Paul Dano
If space is a fabric, then of course fabrics can have ripples, which we have now seen directly. But fabrics can also rip. Then the question is what happens when the fabric of space and time is ripped by a black hole? Michio Kaku
Being glamorous is about strength and confidence. It’s black and white – dramatic. You have to be strong. Catherine Zeta-Jones
Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North. Andrew Johnson
I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made. Jackie Robinson
I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness. Ossie Davis
Life is not black and white; there is some gray nuance to it. Pilou Asbaek
Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four. Chris Rock
I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. Colin Kaepernick
Black people need some peace. White people need some peace. And we are going to have to fight. We’re going to have to struggle. We’re going to have to struggle relentlessly to bring about some peace, because the people that we’re asking for peace, they are a bunch of megalomaniac warmongers, and they don’t even understand what peace means. Fred Hampton
It’s about you. If you win, it’s you; if you lose, it’s you. Black and white. Nowhere to hide. Greg Rusedski
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. Richard M. Nixon
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. Theodor W. Adorno
I think every group of black guys should have at least one white guy in it. Dave Chappelle
To me, we are the most beautiful creatures in the whole world. Black people. And I mean that in every sense. Nina Simone
The story of the British empire helps to explain the roots of most British people: white, black, and Asian. Sadiq Khan
Reconstruction is the great black hole that remains to be filled. Even experts on the Civil War don’t really understand its full significance. Ron Chernow
Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
George Bush doesn’t care about black people. Kanye West
Good can exist in bad, and bad can exist in good. It’s not black and white. Sarah Jeffery
We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It’s our basic human right. Aretha Franklin
Identity is becoming more dependent on what people are willing subscribe to and less dependent on objective criteria such as skin colour or where they’re born. Ways of identifying blackness are no longer black or white. It’s not a case of us or them, you can now be us and them; like them but different. Stuart Hall
We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. H. P. Lovecraft
Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power. Barbara Jordan
In the beginning it was all black and white. Maureen O’Hara
I like a venti black coffee, no room for cream or sugar. Victor J. Glover
Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It’s a black wall. It’s a thief. Dave Grohl
Why don’t they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff. Steven Wright
I don’t see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do. Benicio Del Toro
I can’t think of the last Asian that I ran into that talked about internment camps. But black people always want to talk to me about slavery. Candace Owens
