Top 1200 Black Clothes Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

It would seem that some black people want to say that when you, as a black, become successful, you cease to be black. That's ridiculous.

I'm truly obsessed by clothes. I just buy clothes all the time.

While I might not have a specific experience that is fully American, there is still a knowledge, something that I logically understand as a black woman and a black woman who is existing in America and a black woman who is in the diaspora that are just known quantities that I think anyone can relate to who is black.

I don't really care if my clothes are wrinkled or there's a stain on my shirt. Going out on the road, your clothes are dirty.

I express myself through clothes, but clothes don't define me.

I'm trying just to do good clothes, clothes that you need as much as you want.

Black Consciousness therefore takes cognizance of the deliberateness of God's plan in creating Black people black.

A trip to Tel Aviv is a ritual. I always wear the same clothes to Tel Aviv: black pants and a blue-checked shirt that I bought especially from Ralph Lauren.

Standing to America, bringing home black gold, black ivory, black seed.

I'm a black man that is proud to be black, and I want to help the black community, but I love all mankind.

All the clothes in my closet are Oakland, California, clothes. You can't wear those anywhere else. The barometric pressure drops and then where are you?

I like black a lot because I can't really see colors - so I wear a lot of dark-colored clothes. You've got to be aware of what you're wearing because you might become that.

Cuts of clothes and shapes of clothes are really important.

American women often fall into the trap of, 'Oh, these are my weekend clothes. These are my work clothes. This is what I wear at night.' It's so old-fashioned.

It's great to be black in Hollywood. When a black actor does something, it seems new and different just by virtue of the fact that he's black.

The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.

It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the black underclass, tension between them is inevitable. What we, the black middle class have to do, is think of a strategy to avert that.

Black makes your life so much simpler. Everything matches black, especially black.

I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.

Through designing clothes, I try to bring solutions to people, and I'm interested in the everyday relationship we have to clothes.

To me, not every black filmmaker who is making black films is trying to make black cinema.

Almost every labourer has his Sunday suit, very often really good clothes, sometimes glossy black, with the regulation 'chimney pot'. His unfortunate walk betrays him, dress how he will.

I just love clothes! I'm a girl who loves clothes, accessories, shoes, bags and jewelry.

I cut the labels out of my clothes because they scratch. Clothes are just little workhorses, aren't they?

Sometimes I fall asleep at night with my clothes on. I'm going to have all my clothes made out of blankets.

I love clothes, so when I wear clothes, they're usually somebody's. You know, I'm not wearing Kmart.

And all was black and still, and black and cold, and black and dead, and black.

There Has Ceased to Be a Difference Between My Awake Clothes and My Asleep Clothes

We're not doing outrageous fashion; I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears.

It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.

I have to wear clothes but I don't like to give an idea of what I am with clothes.

It's very necessary, showing the positive aspect of a black father. We see a lot of black women being the head of the household and holding the house down, but I think we need to have those images because there are black fathers out there who are doing the same thing and who are the glue to the family. That's who Black Lightning is.

Be Black, buy Black, think Black, and all else will take care of itself.

My intention is not to make clothes. My head would be too restricted if I only thought about making clothes.

I want to make clothes that are beautiful of course, but also clothes that are interesting and considered and intelligent and not out of place.

When I'm born I'm black, when I grow up I'm black, when I'm in the sun I'm black, when I'm sick I'm black, when I die I'm black, and you...when you're born you're pink, when you grow up you're white, when you're cold you're blue, when you're sick you're green, when you die you're grey and you dare call me coloured.

Expectations that black directors have to make black films about black subject matter are, to me, kind of absurd.

I just love having no clothes on outside, and the only time to do that is when the sun's shining. It's a wonderful sensation to not have any clothes on.

He had once found himself in a room with Lady Bessborough's long-haired white cat. He happened to be dressed in an immaculate black coat and trousers, and was there thoroughly alarmed by the cat's stalking round and round and making motions as if it proposed to sit upon him. He waited until he believed himself to be unobserved, then he picked it up, opened a window, and tossed it out. Despite falling three storeys to the ground, the cat survived, but one of its legs was never quite right afterward and it always evinced the greatest dislike of gentlemen in black clothes.

I'm a pretty big clothes horse. I shop for clothes constantly. I do so much shopping. I should go to Shoppers Anonymous.

The element of fashion I'd like to see more often? Clothes that fit people well. For me it's not so much about the clothes.

I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman.

Style depends more on how you carry yourself in the clothes than the clothes alone, but a killer pair of heels doesn't hurt.

You want to look great under your clothes and obviously without clothes.

A dandy is a clothes-wearing man--a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object--the wearing of clothes, wisely and well; so that, as others dress to live, he lives to dress.

I always loved clothes, just not clothes that were appropriate to the place I grew up in.

I absolutely hate clothes shopping, though I love clothes. It's my idea of heaven to be handed things to wear.

I know I'm black. Everyone knows I'm black. But I don't want to be defined as a black hockey player.

Yes, my clothes don't reflect my personality at all. Because I'm a very straightforward and serious person. My clothes are much flasher than I am. Yeh. Yeh, yeh. It's a good contrast. I don't think your clothes should reflect your personality... keep people on their toes.

I'm having fun playing with clothes now. I didn't used to appreciate the clothes as much when I was modeling. It was a job.

You have to know the forces that are against you and that are trying to break you down. We talk about the problems facing the black community: the decimation of the black family; the mass incarceration of the black man; we're talking about the brutality against black people from the police. The educational system.

You can't tell me what to wear, Indian clothes or no clothes.

Then why don’t you and Bubba have girlfriends? (Nick) I don’t want the drama of it. After the last one burnt up all my clothes with my Jack Daniel’s Black Label collection and tried to decapitate me with my CDs, I decided I’d take a hiatus for a bit. (Mark)

It is hard finding clothes that fit. At the German Vogue shoot most of the clothes were undone at the back.

I've always had an interest in complicating the way that we perceive the black character, whether it's the black academic or scholar or activist or black intellectual.

To turn ordinary clothes into gardening clothes, simply mix with compost.

Black art is not some kind of a magic wand: there still has to be a humble heart attached that's listening to it. And I know it's not a wand because plenty of fans love to turn on us as soon as they realize we are actual black people, with black concerns in our black lives.

I'm not interested in clothes that just convey a certain look or fashion. Clothes for me have always been a form of self-expression.

Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.

My composition often goes toward the black middle class or the black super-wealthy or strong historical black figures.