Top 1200 Black Snake Moan Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Differences are scarier now. The dollar isn't so guaranteed if you don't follow what they see as the norm. But I don't moan about it. I just keep working.

I am extremely content in my life - sometimes to the point where I really should find something to moan about!

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.

Actually we've had a black bourgeoisie or the makings of a black bourgeoisie for many more decades.In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the US has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable. What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.

So many people moan about touring and say it's a chore. I don't know, they must be living on a different planet.

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.

Racism is not only in football, it's in cricket too. Even within teams as a black man, I get the end of the stick. Black and powerful. Black and proud.

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

Can't be no Mamba. I don't want to be a snake.

We understand that, in our communities, black trans folk, gender-nonconforming folk, black queer folk, black women, black disabled folk - we have been leading movements for a long time, but we have been erased from the official narrative.

I'm black. I've been black all my life, and as far as I know, I'll die black.

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

Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: Anytime something was not good, or anytime something was bad in some kinda way, it had to be called black. Like, you had Black Monday, Black Friday, black sheep... Of course, everything else, all the good stuff, is white. White Christmas and such.

Black males who refuse categorization are rare, for the price of visibility in the contemporary world of white supremacy is that black identity be defined in relation to the stereotype whether by embodying it or seeking to be other than it…Negative stereotypes about the nature of black masculinity continue to overdetermine the identities black males are allowed to fashion for themselves.

For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake

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

In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.

If Barack Obama now, or some black person in the future, should become president, neither Jesse Jackson nor Al Sharpton would be out of a job. A black president can't end black misery; a black president can't be a civil rights leader or primarily a crusader for racial justice.

America has a black president, but there are no black studio heads, and there just aren't that many black people working anywhere on film sets, let alone in positions of power in Hollywood. That's what needs to change.

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.

Sometimes I think I'll give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day.

Poison. The perfect weapon for a snake.

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

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

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

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

Watch waterfalls of pity roar, you feel to moan but unlike before, you discover that you'd just be one more person crying.

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

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

One of my friends is Snake from Skid Row.

Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives.

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.

The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass.

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.

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.

Gladys.. work has kept you fit And Bill.. you never moan Well life's not for carrying cases With a butler of your own

After claws and feathers, he took skin and bone, shaped it like an hour glass and made the angels moan.

A black conservative is a black who dissents from the victimization explanation of black fate.

There's a snake hidden in the grass.

I come from a real working class background, and I didn't know anyone sophisticated - except I saw Edie Sedgewick once at the Art Museum in Philly. She had these black leotards and little black pumps and this big ermine cape and all these white dogs and black sunglasses and black eyes. She was classy!

I can't stand it when writers moan about what film-makers might do or have done to their books. There's a very simple answer: don't take the money.

Never wound a snake; kill it.

The moan of the whip-poor-will from the hillside; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; the dreary hooting of the screechowl.

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

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.

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

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.

My staples are a beautiful pair of black pants, a lightweight coat, a great black heel, and a black cardigan. Everything else is just a topping on my fashion sundae.

The epidemic is truly black-on-black crime. The greatest danger to the lives of young black men are young black men.

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.

Even though it's called Music Of Black Origin, it's not just music for black people. Music is for everybody. I think it's good that black music is acknowledged, and it's open for lots of artists, including white artists who have been inspired by black musical heritage.

Come election time, black and white politicians put on their costumes of compassion and care, shake black hands, kiss black babies, sing 'We Shall Overcome' in black , and pray that we will ignore the reality of everyday suffering and the damage that is being done to our future in exchange for our votes.

As a black member of parliament and minister for nearly a decade, I was determined not to be defined by my race. I didn't want to be 'the black politician', when being black is just a part of who I am.

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.

Black Lives Matter has no more to do with black issues than Students for a Democratic Society had to do with democracy. They are means to an end, and they use the black population as sacrifices for their goals.

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

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.

The Black church is extremely important in Black America. I think most Americans themselves believe in a divine power, in a god, and I'm sure that that number increases with Black people.

Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it.

There's a snake lurking in the grass.