Top 1200 Black Youth Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

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

The enemy of the black is not the white. The enemy of capitalist is not communist, the enemy of homosexual is not heterosexual, the enemy of Jew is not Arab, the enemy of youth is not the old, the enemy of hip is not redneck, the enemy of Chicano is not gringo and the enemy of women is not men. We all have the same enemy. The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind. The enemy is every expert who practices technocratic manipulation, the enemy is every proponent of standardization and the enemy is every victim who is so dull and lazy and weak as to allow himself to be manipulated and standardized.

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

These are such First World problems, but there's a certain claustrophobia to New York. You don't escape in the East Village, but it at least feels full of camaraderie and youth - or full of camaraderie and youth in an East Village that is as full of Chase banks and Starbucks as the Upper West Side, or anywhere else in Manhattan.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Oh youth, youth! You don't worry about anything; you seem to possess all the treasures of the universe--even sorrow gives you pleasure, even grief suits you.... And perhaps the whole secret of your charm lies not in your ability to do everything, but in your ability to think that you will do everything.

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.

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

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

The biggest surprise for me, without a doubt, was that the first black people who came to the United States weren't the 20 who arrived in Jamestown in 1619. All of us had been taught that. Well, guess what? The first African came to Florida in 1513. And the huge shock is we know his name, Juan Garrido, and that he wasn't a slave. He was free! This brother was a conquistador who came with Ponce de Leon. He was looking for the Fountain of Youth just like the white people were.

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

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

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

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

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 am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

People, you see... are ruthless and foolish. When they're young, in order to have money and power, they give up everything like health and youth. And when they get sick, become old, and have all the money and power... in order to find their health and youth again, they spend all of the wealth they've wasted so much energy and time to accumulate.

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.

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

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.'

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.

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

Youth is a period of idealism. The Communists attract young people by appealing directly to that idealism. Too often, others have failed either to appeal to it or to use it and they are the losers as a consequence. We have no cause to complain if, having neglected the idealism of youth, we see others come along, take it, and harness it to their cause - and against our own.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep, More grateful than this marble sleep; It hears a voice within it tell: Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well. 'Tis all perhaps which man acquires, But 'tis not what our youth desires.

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

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.

I'm a staunch believer in the effect of pop culture - including advertising and the internet - on the young. Pop culture in its narrowest sense - mass-produced film, TV, and music - either truly reflects what's up in youth culture, or it reflects what youth-filled focus groups have told marketing companies that they want to consume.

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.

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

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

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?

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

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.