Top 1200 Black Widow Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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.

The others were only my wives. But you, my dear, will be my widow.

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

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

Truly, sister, you were born to be a widow. (Tyrion to Cersei)

I get lonely when I'm a Playstation widow.

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

At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.

Being a rock widow is not my job, so I would hire people to do it for me.

Drying a widow's tears is one of the most dangerous occupations known to man.

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

The black experience for me has been very interesting. Some days, I wake up, and I feel really black. Some days, I'm like, 'This is me. I'm black. Black Lives Matter. Black pride. Look at my cocoa skin.' I just feel it's my being.

Khaddar brings a ray of hope to the widow's broken-up home.

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

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

The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.

Every widow I have met has recognized in the wheel a dear forgotten friend.

As a widow and a caregiver and a single mother, I'm living the experience that New Mexicans are.

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.

Like for 'Black Nails,' I just had black nails - and I never have black nails. It was my first and last time getting black nails. And that's so not normal for me. So when you're recording, you're up at the mic and you gotta name the file, so I just look down and I'm like, 'Black Nails!' That's literally what it was.

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

He will regard his people's cry, the widow's tear, the orphan's moan.

My mom is Jamaican and Chinese, and my dad is Polish and African American, so I'm pretty mixed. My nickname in high school was United Nations. I was fine with it, even though I identify as a black woman. People don't realize it hurts my feelings when someone looks at my hair or my eyes, and says, "But you're not actually black. You're black, but you're not black black, because your eyes are green." I'm like, "What? No, no, I'm definitely black." Even some of my closest friends have said that. It's been a bit touchy for me.

If Black women stand strong and our commitment is to ending domination I know that I'm supporting Black males, Black children male and female Black elderly because the bottom line is the struggle to end domination in all its forms.

For a black person who's Senegalese, growing up in France, or a New York Jamaican, that's a completely different relationship with being black and how you might be accepted in that culture or that world. Everyone's experience is different. Especially black women and black men.

Widow. The word consumes itself.

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.

It's very necessary, showing the positive aspect of a black father. We see a lot of black women being the head of the household and holding the house down, but I think we need to have those images because there are black fathers out there who are doing the same thing and who are the glue to the family. That's who Black Lightning is.

Black art is not some kind of a magic wand: there still has to be a humble heart attached that's listening to it. And I know it's not a wand because plenty of fans love to turn on us as soon as they realize we are actual black people, with black concerns in our black lives.

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.

A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.

It were better to be a soldier's widow than a coward's wife.

It's good to be a widow in New York, because I can do something every night.

But I am a Widow’s Son, outlawed and my orders must be obeyed.

Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

When I was a teenager, black pride became newly popular again. Suddenly a lot of black people were wearing the fake kente cloth and red black and green and Bob Marley. That was sort of my window into finding my own identity as a black person.

A lot of racism going on in the world right now. Who's more racist? Black people or white people? Black people. You know why? 'Cuz we hate black people too! Everything white people don't like about black people, black people really don't like about black people.

White people scare the crap out of me. I have never been attacked by a black person, never been evicted by a black person, never had my security deposit ripped off by a black landlord, never had a black landlord, never been pulled over by a black cop, never been sold a lemon by a black car salesman, never seen a black car salesman, never had a black person deny me a bank loan, never had a black person bury my movie, and I've never heard a black person say, 'We're going to eliminate ten thousand jobs here - have a nice day!'

You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly—Tom's Aunt Polly, she is—and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before.

A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.

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.

While I might not have a specific experience that is fully American, there is still a knowledge, something that I logically understand as a black woman and a black woman who is existing in America and a black woman who is in the diaspora that are just known quantities that I think anyone can relate to who is black.

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.

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

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

[T]he departing world leaves behind... not an heir, but a pregnant widow.

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

One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.

Fortune is like a widow won,And truckles to the bold alone.

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

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

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.