Top 1200 Black Humor Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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.

Probably the most important single element that I found in my own marriage was a sense of humor. My wife had a delicious sense of humor, and I think I have an adequate one.

I was interested in the mystical element of humor - was humor part of creation? Is God laughing at us, or with us?

Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.

I've been to some funerals where there's a lot of laughing - it's about celebrating their new journey. I can't think of anything. There's humor in everything. There's gotta be humor in everything.

It's terrible to write what are essentially comedies for people with no sense of humor. Everyone thinks they have a sense of humor, but observably not.

Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know.

To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.

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.

People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say it's a sense of humor. If you've got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive.

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

I think there's plenty of room, even in the most serious activist circles, for humor. Humor can be very effective both to inspire, and as a weapon. Just ask Frank Zappa and Charlie Chaplin.

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

Humor is a bit like Mary Poppins' sugar-it helps the medicine go down. A little bit of humor allows people to think about very difficult subjects.

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.

One of the first things every press secretary assures you is, the boss has a wonderful sense of humor, because not to have a sense of humor is considered flagrantly un-American.

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

I translated an Emile Zola book, 'The Belly of Paris,' because I didn't find an existing translation that captured his sense of humor. Humor is the first victim of translation.

It's perfectly possible to spotlight Black joy over Black suffering. Setting the story in the past doesn't mean that Black folks do nothing but suffer.

G.I. humor is similar to cop humor.

There is humor that's just whimsy, that we smile at, but the humor that we laugh at, someone has to be - someone's dignity has to be reduced.

For black America needs a politics whose first mission isn't the reinforcement of the idea of black America; and a discourse of race that isn't centrally concerned with preserving the idea of race and racial unanimity. We need something we don't yet have: a way of speaking about black poverty that doesn't falsify the reality of black advancement; a way of speaking about black advancement that doesn't distort the enduring realities of black poverty.

I think humor is a really important way of creating solidarity - like, through humor you can make people realize that certain situations, where they thought they were alone, are actually shared by everyone.

Bathroom humor, fart, and poo poo humor in movies gets a laugh. It's a pretty easy audience, and that's been around for ages.

Lily Tomlin said something years ago, and I'm paraphrasing, that you have to find humor in everything, because by finding humor, you find humanity.

Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.

Among animals, one has a sense of humor. Humor saves a few steps, it saves years.

I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.

I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early 70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.

It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.

I don't think that there's necessarily a side to drama that has to be completely bleak. You have to have a flicker of humor 'cause everyone has a flicker of humor, something they find funny in life.

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

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.

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

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

I don't see myself a Great Black Hope. I'm just a golfer who happens to be black and Asian. It doesn't matter whether they're white, black, brown or green.

There's a tricky tone where you try to get some humor into a movie that's also a tough tale of murder and revenge. You have to ice skate rather carefully between the humor and the action tension part of the drama.

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

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

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

I mean, yeah, I'm sure that Python and the other things have paved the way for a greater understanding of the British sense of humor, but I don't think it's all that different than the American sense of humor.

I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor?

It was darker than a pitch-black panther, covered in tar, eating black licorice at the very bottom of the deepest part of the Black Sea.

I feel like humor is the answer to everything. If you have a little bit of humor in the shaker and you can sprinkle that on, that's your answer.

Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so important. I am here to have fun here with my work.

Anxiety and hostility seem to be a great part of good and bad humor. Examining humor too closely does seem to destroy it.

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 remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. It's mean, mean stuff.

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

Within any drama in anyone`s life, there`s always a way to find the humor in it. Without humor no one cares about whatever drama is going on.

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

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

I have a sense of humor. I usually come off as very serious, but I definitely have a dry sense of humor.

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

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.

I learned that on kids' shows, you have to eat a lot of stuff. A lot of the humor comes from food and gross-out humor.

I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor.

I was always kind of finding humor to be an access point to the conversation, to a pain relief, if you will. My mother was in a wheelchair since I was very young, so she was in pain and we used humor.

I never write anything without humor, just because I like humor, but at the same time, it is a way for anything fantastical to become relatable.

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.