Top 1200 Black Diamonds Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

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

When a country doesn't respect Black lives, maybe it doesn't deserve to be entertained by Black athletes.

Whether or not you call it Black Lives Matter, whether or not you put a hashtag in front of it, whether or not you call it the Movement for Black Lives, all of that is irrelevant. Because there was resistance before Black Lives Matter, and there will be resistance after Black Lives Matter.

I didn't want to write a 'black' book because black characters are a tough sell.

When I walk out into the street or go to the toilet, I don't think of myself as being black. Of course, other people think of me as black when I walk into a pub. Obviously being black is a part of me.

With the Black Lives Matter movement, a lot of the focus is on the protest and dissent. I'm hoping to dismantle the public notion - for folks outside of the community - of what Black Lives Matter means. It's really about saying that black lives matter: that humanity is the same when you go inside people's homes.

Color is the overpowering of black; white – the final victory over black.

I've always loved black, and I realized that, from the beginning, man went into completely dark caves to paint. They painted with black too. They could have painted with white because there were white stones all over the ground, but no, they chose to paint with black in the dark.

Dead was the gift that kept on giving. Dead, like diamonds, was forever.

My style is not that big. I wear heels, tight pants, and I wear diamonds.

I wear black on the outside 'Cause black is how I feel on the inside.

Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.

People are more afraid of black unity than black rage.

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

Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.

I had the opportunity to wear Hearts On Fire jewelry on the red carpet and just loved the way their diamonds made me look and feel.

I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.

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.

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

The kind of money that show business will pay you, unless you need to have shoes made of diamonds, you can actually put it in the bank and sort of be okay.

It's not enough even to have one black Barbie... because black women are not a monolith.

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

If the white man can come here uneducated and as an immigrant, and within 10 or 15 years set up an industry that provides job opportunities and educational opportunities for black people, then if the black man, the black leadership, who has access to all of this money and has all of these degrees today, can't use his talent and his know-how to set up business opportunities, job opportunities, housing opportunities for the black people the same as the white leaders have done for white people, then these black leaders need to get off the boat.

I grew up in Columbia, Maryland, a planned community built during the sixties. During the early years, it was very integrated. I grew up being taught by black teachers with black principals and vice principals and, you know, a lot of black friends. We played in mixed groups, and I kind of thought that was how it was.

Hitler had a lot of Jews high up in the hierarchy of the Third Reich. Color does not necessarily denote quality, content or value. If a black is a tyrant, he is first and foremost a tyrant, then he incidentally is black. Bush is a tyrant and if he gathers around him black tyrants, they all have to be treated as they are being treated.

Life is just like a book. Only after you've read it do you know how it ends. It is when we are at the end of life that we know how our life ran. Mine, until now, has been black. As black as my skin. Black as the garbage dump where I live.

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

Anything I get to wear to the Met Ball is huge. I'm not a fashion girl, so it's cool to be dolled up and have those diamonds where they send armed guards with you.

Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges, and brownish tints known romantically as 'champagne.'

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

Sometimes, you feel like, 'Am I going to be upset about this as a black person or as a woman first? Or am I gonna be both?' Because some things inherently affect black women; some things affect you as a woman and not a black person; and some things just affect you as a black person.

You need Black [people] sometimes to understand things about Black culture.

One of the reasons I paint black people is because I am a black person.

It's better to be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother.

Tutankhamun was not black, and the portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilization as black has no element of truth to it.

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

I am proud of my black roots and of the black blood that runs in my veins.

Black culture, to me, is so important and I identify with young black women.

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

I love leather vests and jackets, black leggings, black lips.

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

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

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.

Black Nativity certainly lends itself to reinterpretation. It was kind of designed to be infused with the creativity of whoever is putting it on, and every performance is a little bit different. So, this is definitely my version of Black Nativity. It has its own story, which is a family story. Langston Hughes' Black Nativity informs it, and is contained within it.

There is still an assumption among many people that to be black is to be lower class. In the last fifteen to twenty years, perhaps even further back than that, there's also been an explosion of a very wealthy black class in the United States, but those people are often treated as special cases: they're athletes, entertainers. Jay-Z. Basketball players. The country metabolizes the fact these rich black people exist, but it seems only to reinforce the idea that every other black person is limping along in poverty.

But for poor black people and working-class black people, it is a much more difficult way to go. The over-incarceration of black people is just intolerable. When you look at the disparity in terms of education and access to fair schooling, it is horrible. If this would happen to white people in this country, it would not be tolerated.

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

To be black and beautiful means nothing in this world unless we are black and powerful.

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.

I don't want to be alone at 80 years old, dripping in diamonds - having never helped anyone. That's not my path. That's not what I care about. That's not what excites me.

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

I tend to play characters that arent supposed to black or written black.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

The Black Lives Matter movement is stronger when non-black people step up for it.

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

There is an obsession with black tragedy. If you see a black movie, it's typically historical, and it tends to deal with our pain. And listen, there have been some excellent films made in that vein, and there are some painful parts of black history that should be explored, but it is kind of weird that only those films bubble up to the surface.

I hope that audiences understand that there is a precariousness to black lives in this country that we need to address, that there has always been a precariousness to black lives in this country that we need to address. In fact, our country is built on the precariousness of black lives, the disposability of black lives.

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

Black-on-black crime is a massive human rights issue that's going on in America.

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