Top 1200 Jacob Black Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I've gotten over that by now. But I remember the first time reading the book, I was like, 'Wait, Jacob's been trying to get Bella this entire time, and he strikes out, so he goes for her child?' I was so confused. It took me a second.

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.

The Christian's God does not merely consist of a God who is the Author of mathematical truths and the order of the elements. The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, the God of the Christians, is a God of love and consolation.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary.

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

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.

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

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

There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in America.

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

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

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

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

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

In the dead silence, all the details suddenly fell into place for me with a burst of intuition. Something Edward didn't want me to know. Something that Jacob wouldn't have kept from me.... It was never going to end, was it?

One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.

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.

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.'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.