Top 1200 Black Pepper Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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?

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

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

Mostly, in The Great Waldo Pepper I remember the lovely Ed Herrmann befriending me and taking care of me. I was crying a lot. I was a real mess when we made that. But this is all such ancient history, Jesus Lord. Was this before or after The Sting?

There haven't been enough profound things written about what being black means and what a black character is. Nobody knows.

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.

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.

Even that was all consumed after two days, and the patients had to try to choke down fresh fish, just boiled in water, without salt, pepper or butter; mutton, beef, and potatoes without the faintest seasoning

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.

My mom's a painter, and she used to wear black all the time, and so do I. So I would say a black T-shirt with a pocket is my go-to.

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

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

The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

When I was involved with 'Star Wars,' I was very interested in all the backstories, and I used to pepper George with all kinds of questions about anything that crossed my mind, because I was very, very into it. But when the job came to an end, I had to move on.

An actor hears 'no' more often than the average person. A black human and a black woman on top of that? That's a lot of no's.

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.

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.

Even that was all consumed after two days, and the patients had to try to choke down fresh fish, just boiled in water, without salt, pepper or butter; mutton, beef, and potatoes without the faintest seasoning.

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

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

The studios aren't lining up to make films about black protagonists, black people being autonomous and independent.

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.

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

I come in with this rock 'n' roll-oriented music, and it's not black enough . . . I've always had to deal with this black-white thing.

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.

I'm a Black woman and I've always been told that I wasn't Black enough because of the way that I grew up, the experiences that I had.

It's the reality of being Black in this country. You can have money, and you can be a benefactor and a leader in your community, but all people see is Black skin.

If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.

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

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

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

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.'

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.

Black immigrants and refugees have just as much at stake in the fight to make Black Lives Matter as African Americans do.

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

I joke to people in the press that I realize I'm not black, I'm actually white. But I've got these roots in black American music. I love it.

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.

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

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

Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy

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

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

#BlackLivesMatter is about black pride and black power and standing up against a world that tries to annihilate us.

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.

I am for Obama, all the way. I don't 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.