Top 1200 Black Movie Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

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

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.

I'm such an action movie junkie that as an action fan, because action scenes are so heightened, we could never really picture ourselves in that scene. So when you're watching an action movie, you experience an action movie more outside of the aquarium: you know you're out of the aquarium looking in at all the swimming fish that are in there.

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

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

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.

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 part of a legacy of queer black women who have fought for the freedom of black people across the globe.

There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in America.

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.

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

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

I have been saying again and again that the case of Israel and Palestine, the case of Israel and the Arab world, and indeed the case of Israel and Europe, is not black and white. It's not a western movie.

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

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

I wear a lot of black, but not in the goth way, I just really love black. I'll never be in pink or purples.

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

Part of what I am dealing with, with this blackness, is asking the question, "Where are those black people, who are as dark as the description of a young black boy that Solomon Northup gives in 12 Years A Slave?" He describes the young black 14-year-old boy as "blacker than any crow." You have to question if he is using that metaphorically or as a descriptive?

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

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.

Our respect for the dead, when they are just dead, is something wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still. We show it with black feathers and black horses; we show it with black dresses and black heraldries; we show it with costly obelisks and sculptures of sorrow, which spoil half of our beautiful cathedrals. We show it with frightful gratings and vaults, and lids of dismal stone, in the midst of the quiet grass; and last, and not least, we show it by permitting ourselves to tell any number of falsehoods we think amiable or credible in the epitaph.

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

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

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

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

My greatest sense comes from the experience of performing in the movie. When I have a great experience, that becomes a perfect movie. If it makes a nickel, it's still perfect. The same is true with a movie that's a bad experience. If it makes a bejillion dollars, I will hate it till the end of time.

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

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

For me, the reason to make the movie is that if people like the comic, then people would like the movie if it was well made. There are good movies for them, but very few. And I mean that in a true sense. If they love your story for freaking 30 years, then they can do a movie about it.

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

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

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

Directors typically have three choices - you do a studio movie and get a paycheck up front, you do an independent movie, which is for your heart and you don't get paid up front and probably don't make any money on it, but it hopefully goes to Sundance and is more of an art movie, and then you do TV.

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

Black people's music is in a class by itself and always has been. There's nothing like it. The reason for that is because it was not tampered with by white people. It was not on the media. It was not anywhere except where black people were. And it is one of the art forms in which black people decided what is good in it. Nobody told them. What surfaced and what floated to the top, were the giants and the best.

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.

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

I know that statistically, it has been proven that there is a tremendous amount of black on black crime within the inner cities.

I go to Uganda, I can't speak the language. In India, I'm black. In the black community, I'm dark-skinned. In America, I'm British.

When my family first moved to Hempstead in the 1960s, they were one of the first black families. It used to be an all-white neighborhood, but there was white flight when the black people with money started moving in. When I was, like, 13 or 14, Hempstead had just become all black, and the poverty became worse and worse.

I loved 'Weekend,' and it meant a lot to me when I saw it in the movie theater. I think 'Looking' feels more like that movie than any of those other shows, with a little more comedy thrown in than 'Weekend.' But it's certainly got the vibe and look and feeling of that movie.

The core of the culture is racism and how black men are viewed. They've always been demonized and seen as threats in our culture. Another holdover from slavery. We've got to deal with that core root of racism and demonization of the upbringing of black men. Black women are not exempt by any means.

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

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.

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

Eventually I got the call for 'Iron Man,' and I read sides that had nothing to do with what I did in the movie, and I performed it once while no one was in the room - it was videotaped, and I'm sure Shane Black was watching it from his helicopter or something. And then I got a call the next day that I was going down to shoot it.

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

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

Black is the most slimming of all Colors. It is the most flattering. You can wear black at any Time. You can wear it at any age. You can wear it for almost any occasion. I could write a book about black.

Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.

In my essays and articles I have been saying again and again that the case of Israel and Palestine, the case of Israel and the Arab world, and indeed the case of Israel and Europe, is not black and white. It's not a western movie.

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.

The black man in North America was economically sick and that was evident in one simple fact: as a consumer, he got less than his share, and as a producer gave least. The black American today shows us the perfect parasite image - the black tick under the delusion that he is progressing because he rides on the udder of the fat, three-stomached cow that is white America.

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

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

They had this movie called Juno about a teenage girl who gets pregnant and it's nominated for an Oscar. That's an unusual experience for me, 'cause when a black girl gets pregnant it ain't no Oscar. It's social work and a box of condoms is what that is.

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

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