Top 1200 Black Beauty Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

What is being black? It's making the most of your life, not taking a single moment for granted. Taking something that's seen as a struggle and making it work for you, or you'll die inside. Not to say that my struggle is like the collective struggle of black America. But maybe my struggle is similar to one black dude's.

I am not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American, and got sense enough to know it. I am one of the 22 million black victims of the Democrats, and one of the 22 million black victims of the Republicans, and one of the 22 million black victims of Americanism... You and I have never seen democracy; all we've seen is hypocracy... If you go to jail, so what? If you're black, you were born in jail. If you're black, you were born in jail, in the North as well as the South. Stop talking about the South. Long as you south of the Canadian border, you're south.

We must realise that prophetic cry of black students: Black man you are on your own!

It doesn’t honor God to pretend everything is OK. That’s the beauty of Jesus that so many people miss. The beauty is that he died on the cross for our sins, but also that he existed the way we exist.

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition." "And they rock, and they rock, through the sensual ageless ages on the depths of the seven seas, and through the salt they reel with drunken delight and in the tropics tremble they with love and roll with massive, strong desire, like gods.

The leading distinction in magnets is the sex, male and female, and the next great difference in them is the colour. Those of Magnesia, bordering on Macedonia, are of a reddish black; those of Breotia are more red than black; and the kind that is found in Troas is black, of the female sex, and consequently destitute of attractive power.

In the true mythology, Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide; nor can we express a deeper sense than when we say, Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

I love black. Anything black transforms lives in a profound way, particularly for women.

I've heard that Black people and Black faces don't sell magazines, but one day you're going to beg me to be on there.

The impact of black music and black art forms on American culture is really difficult to appreciate.

In black America there's such a thing as passing, the black people who are light skinned and they will pass for white.

My signature style is super uniformed. I like black pants, black blazers, and boots.

Amelie had on black pants, a black zip-up hoodie, andrunning shoes. So wrong.

The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses.

What makes Luke Cage unique isn't him being black. Yes, he is black, but he has other things.

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

Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.

In my own life, when I'm not working, I do wear a lot of black. I think I do feel very comfortable in black.

If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary.

I went to an historically black college where we're always told that there's limitation. And so I'm happy to represent for black colleges.

The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.

I don't like the term 'black film,' and I am proud to be black.

In all fields black consciousness seeks to talk to the black man in a language that is his own

There ought to be a robust, uninhibited conversation in black America with different black ideological perspectives.

It's important to be an ally. You don't have to be a black woman to think we should have more black women in tech.

The thing about black women and black hair is that you just have to experiment.

Beauty is transcendent. It is our most immediate experience of the eternal. Think of what it's like to behold a gorgeous sunset or the ocean at dawn. Remember the ending of a great story. We yearn to linger, to experience it all our days. Sometimes the beauty is so deep it pierces us with longing. For what? For life as it was meant to be. Beauty reminds us of an Eden we have never known, but somehow our hearts were created for.

I am black, and there's no getting around that, but being black doesn't define every aspect of my life.

We say Black lives matter, but a lot of white folks don't know Black folk.

I tend to play characters that aren't supposed to black or written black.

I like to think my work is furthering black culture by educating and empowering black people.

No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening - still all is Beauty!

The way black people feel, especially, is if you're going to tell a black story, let it come from a real place.

I am more interested in revolutionary beauty than in the great beauty, to be honest. Italian cinema is now mostly a bureau for tourism. We have given up that revolution of the contemporary.

Begbie offers an additional valuable contribution by rejecting the traditional emphasis on beauty, in its Platonic sense, and instead suggesting that beauty be reconceived in Christological terms-as disorder redeemed.

Black culture is cool, but black issues sure aren't, huh?

It's a lot easier being black than gay. At least if you're black you don't have to tell your parents.

I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.

I wear black because I'm a large lady, and I have many exact replicas of the same black outfit.

In 2013, there were 6,261 black homicide victims in the US — almost all killed by black civilians.

I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.

Black girl stories aren't just for black girls: they're for everybody.

A lot of the time, black people, we don't introduce ourselves as black.

You can't get more racist than hating black conservatives just because they're black.

'Roots' did show that the audience would be receptive to black talent and a black story.

It's hypocritical to say Black Lives Matter' when we know Black life begins in the womb.

'Into The Gloss,' what I think it did so well was create a conversation around beauty and make beauty the main event as opposed to the ugly step-sister, which it often is in magazines.

Wasn't Winston Churchill the first black president of America? There's a statue of him near me... that's black.

Blacks are tired of seeing whites saying, 'I understand you.' You need a black to direct a black film.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival.

The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout.

I leave these speculations to others. It’s quite possible that my work represents a search for beauty in the most prosaic and ordinary places. One doesn’t have to be in some faraway dreamland in order to find beauty.

Every time I go back to Paris, I'm so amazed by how little makeup French women wear. The approach to beauty there is more of a natural 'who you are,' but with American beauty, you can have fun with who you are.

I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they represent.

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

When I find a colour darker than black, I'll wear it. But until then, I'm wearing black!

I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.

I recently signed on with Lancome, and I guess it's any girl's modeling dream come true. Especially being in a beauty ad, more so because I'm French. There are so many girls out there, and I'm just so flattered they picked me. The Tom Ford fragrance ad was the first thing I did. Black Orchid is my winter scent and of course it has a nostalgic feel.

Black Lives Matter is one iteration of a much larger struggle to fight for black people's freedom.