Top 1200 Black Youth Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

We say Black lives matter, but a lot of white folks don't know Black folk.

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

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

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

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

Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.

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

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

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

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

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

When I walk out into the street or go to the toilet, I don't think of myself as being black. Of course, other people think of me as black when I walk into a pub. Obviously being black is a part of me.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Appalling numbers of youth have been led into a cynical ultra-sophisticated attitude which regards drinking as a badge of social aptitude, which makes a fetish of sport and professes eroticism as a way of life. A perverted and insane pictorial art, lewd exhibitionistic dancing and jungle music form the spiritual norm of this sector of America's youth.

Sometimes, you feel like, 'Am I going to be upset about this as a black person or as a woman first? Or am I gonna be both?' Because some things inherently affect black women; some things affect you as a woman and not a black person; and some things just affect you as a black person.

I was inspired to shoot 'Look Back at It' in a high school because I'm like a voice of the youth. When the youth sees me in a classroom, I want them to be inspired to accomplish their dreams. I was just like them in a classroom at one point. It all starts in a classroom.

I've always loved black, and I realized that, from the beginning, man went into completely dark caves to paint. They painted with black too. They could have painted with white because there were white stones all over the ground, but no, they chose to paint with black in the dark.

The leading distinction in magnets is the sex, male and female, and the next great difference in them is the colour. Those of Magnesia, bordering on Macedonia, are of a reddish black; those of Breotia are more red than black; and the kind that is found in Troas is black, of the female sex, and consequently destitute of attractive power.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

People are more afraid of black unity than black rage.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I hope that audiences understand that there is a precariousness to black lives in this country that we need to address, that there has always been a precariousness to black lives in this country that we need to address. In fact, our country is built on the precariousness of black lives, the disposability of black lives.

Whether or not you call it Black Lives Matter, whether or not you put a hashtag in front of it, whether or not you call it the Movement for Black Lives, all of that is irrelevant. Because there was resistance before Black Lives Matter, and there will be resistance after Black Lives Matter.

His golden locks Time hath to silver turned, O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing! His youth 'gainst Time and Age hath ever spurned, But spurned in vain! Youth waneth by increasing.

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

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

That quote by this guy Friedrich Schiller, "Keep true to the dreams of thy youth"? That quote changed my life. It confirmed that every crazy thing I'd ever done at least was staying true to the dreams of my youth - and really, I mean very young dreams of just being able to have fun all the time.

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

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.

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

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

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

Luckily for me, Hereford restarted their youth team. I trained a few times with the first team before my first stroke of luck, when the club's youth team coach Pete Beadle, someone who knew me well, became the first-team manager.

If the white man can come here uneducated and as an immigrant, and within 10 or 15 years set up an industry that provides job opportunities and educational opportunities for black people, then if the black man, the black leadership, who has access to all of this money and has all of these degrees today, can't use his talent and his know-how to set up business opportunities, job opportunities, housing opportunities for the black people the same as the white leaders have done for white people, then these black leaders need to get off the boat.

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

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.

I love leather vests and jackets, black leggings, black lips.

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