Top 1200 Black Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

When you start making a movie, people want to know: Who's the star power? And very early, I realized there's not a lot of 26-year-old black actors who have been given the opportunity to be the lead of a film. It's, like, Michael B. Jordan, and then we're done.

There are four different kinds of power in a communication: position power (the CEO talking to her direct reports), emotion power (passion sometimes rules the day), expertise (people often listen to the most knowledgeable person in the room), and conversational power (the subtlest, this is the ability to direct the conversation through body language).

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

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

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

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

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.

People are more afraid of black unity than black rage.

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.

I believe strongly that when you have political capital, you should use it in a manner that helps improve the human condition. You shouldn't just compile power and hold onto power for power's sake.

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.

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

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

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

Has the God who made the white man and the black left any record declaring us a different species? Are we not sustained by the same power, supported by the same food. . . . And should we not then enjoy the same liberty. . .?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Power to the people' can only be put into practice when the power exercised by social elites is dissolved into the people. Each individual can then take control of his daily life. If 'Power to the people' means nothing more than power to the 'leaders' of the people, then the people remain an undifferentiated, manipulatable mass, as powerless after the revolution as they were before. In the last analysis, the people can never have power until they disappear as a 'people.

There must be power in the word of a satyagraha general, not the power that the possession of limitless arms gives, but the power that purifies life which strict vigilance and a ceaseless application produce.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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