Top 1200 Black Diamonds Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

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

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

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

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

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

No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.

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

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.

I am for Obama, all the way. I dont support Obama just because he is a black man; I support him because he is an educated black man. He is making black people proud.

The Circle Theatre, black people had to sit in the balcony. Any theater with a balcony, black people had to sit up there. Black people couldn't check into any hotel except their own. And black people couldn't eat anywhere except in their own restaurants.

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

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

We all need to become more customer-focused and recognize the power of marketing to sell more diamonds.

I think there is this narrative that if you are a black woman, and you are strong, and you are educated, it's like, 'Good luck getting a black man.'

The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are not really white, and that black people are not black.

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

Japanese players have good football qualities and Urawa Red Diamonds is one of the greatest Japanese teams.

We both know what memories can bring / They bring diamonds and rust.

'Black Ice Cream' is a salute to the ladies with Black Girl Magic who exude a powerful sexual confidence.

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

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

I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.

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.

All any girl needs, at any time in history, is simple velvet and basic diamonds.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Black women are the most passionate commentators, and even as black female geeks and nerds, they are rarely acknowledged.

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

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

The issue of diamonds in Africa is inseparable from the issue of child soldiers.

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

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

One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.

I was raised in a black household and grew up with black homies.

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

The scriptures offer us so many doctrinal diamonds. And when the light of the Spirit plays upon their several facets, they sparkle with celestial sense and illuminate the path we are to follow.

Ya know it was a toss-up whether I go in for diamonds or sing in the choir. The choir lost.

I imposed black; it still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around

I do admit that black men love me. I always forget that, and then I come to a black neighborhood and I remember.

Donald Trump has not held an event in the black community. He has not gone to a black church, as Hillary Clinton has done.

Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites.

I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.

When you die, they can make you into diamonds now. It’s scientific. That’s how I want to be remembered. I want to shine.

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

I like pressure. Diamonds are made under pressure, and I definitely enjoy it.

The thorny path bears some of the sweetest flowers that adorn life. And when with naked, bleeding feet we walk upon a flinty soil, we often find diamonds.

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

You know who's also joining the Wall Street protesters? Kanye West. That's a real good idea -- a guy with diamonds in his teeth protesting greed.

We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands.

I’d noticed that his eyes were black – coal black.

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

The media love to cover black people on the front page. After all, when you live in a society that will lock up about 30 percent of all black men at some time in their lives and send more of them to prison than to college, chances are a fair number of those black faces will end up in the newspaper.

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

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.

But George Lucas is carrying about Black actors, about Black men, about Black history, which really incorporates and tells all of history. You can't take one race out without eliminating every other race if you're going to tell the story of the human race.

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

Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.