Top 1200 Pitch Black Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports.

I'm more eclectic.Maybe I'm minimalist in the respect that I love black...black for the winter, white for the summer, you know? But I love artisanal things.

As a young black boy, it made me proud to see black leaders that did something amazing and made the world change.

I played Pierre, a white Russian aristocrat, and my co-lead was Denee Benton. Two black leads playing not black people - it was an important moment for the Broadway community to say diversity is possible and it's here.

There were not many black students at Juilliard, unfortunately. So when you get there, you become very good friends, in particular, with the other black students.

I pitch like my hair is on fire.

When I was young I was one of the second generation of black people in Holland. My father was the first. My mother was white, and living with a black man at that time and having a how-you-say half-caste boy is not easy.

I really like black. I love wearing black, different aesthetics and shades. I like earth tones. Those are my go-tos.

My family is part Creole, and we're Indian, and we're also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.

My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'

Unlike earlier black-power movements that tried to fight or segregate for self-preservation, Black Lives Matter aligns with the dead, continues the mourning, and refuses the forgetting in front of all of us.

Historically, black women have suffered tremendously, but today's black women are the triumph. We have choices, and that's what freedom is all about: having the power to choose.

Black women have to know the historical and everyday struggles of black men, and our men have to know the struggles of black women in America.

Could it be that my circle is largely black and that it is why I am influential in black circles but not in white circles?

I don't need to tell myself that I'm black or that I'm proud of being black. I just am, and it just doesn't matter.

I wonder: Would there be a black president if people hadn't already begun imagining, through film and television, that a black man is president? It's self-actualization.

Liberalism Has Nearly Destroyed Black America, And Now It’s Time For Black America To Return The Favor.

I feel a responsibility to continue creating complex roles for black women, especially young black women.

Well who's black and what is a black person?

Black people, we are fully deserving of the room and space to fully express our humanity. This is what Black Lives Matter is truly about.

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.

There's not one black narrative. There's not one way to be black.

I've often said that with Black Sabbath you ought to have put a lasso around the sound and pulled it in. That's the best way to record Black Sabbath.

I'm better on the pitch than with the microphone.

Poitier opened the doors to so many artists, not just black artists. There is a line that goes from black to Latin to Asian with regards to roles.

We have to shut up and work on the pitch.

I'm a woman of color. I've lived in black neighborhoods all of my life, and most of the time I get hit on in my neighborhood - and mostly by black men. And so I wanted to have my specific experience and my perspective on street harassment out there.

The Clintons use black people for votes but then don't do anything for black communities after they're elected. They use us for photo ops.

For me, it's clear Beyonce sees herself as a part of the movement for black lives and believes that black lives matter - and ultimately, that's what matters.

Everything matches black, especially black.

I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and as long as he kept being black, I was a happy man.

Black Velvet in that little boys smile, Black Velvet with that slow southern style. A new religion that'll bring you to your knees.

The single most important lesson I learned is that black people are the cause of black people's demise.

What it is is that Barack Obama was raised by a white mother and two white grandparents who, A, told him he was black and that there was nothing wrong with being black.

The interesting thing about Georgia is, Atlanta is teeming with middle-class black people and black people with money - and yet there is still segregation.

Black is not sad... Black is poetic.

And it's ironic that in my career I've done the black shows from 'Moesha' to 'Fresh Prince' to 'Hangin' with Mr. Cooper,' and then a lot of black films like 'Biker Boyz' and 'Love Don't Cost a Thing.'

The whole future of America's black community is at risk. One out of every three young black men in Washington, D.C., is under one arm or the other of the criminal justice system. These are the continuing consequences of slavery.

With my coloring, I'm nothing in black and white. I've seen my films sometimes on black-and-white TV. Disaster.

In 2016, the conversation of the black experience is so broad, and it's very raw. I mean, c'mon, we have a black president. That's a major thing, and there are so many other significant occurrences that have come from the '60s and '70s up to now.

I'll be back. I'll be black. I'll be white black.

Black love is black wealth

Orphan Black is the new black.

Don't tell me you can pitch...pitch. Don't tell me you can sell...sell.

Whenever I'm on the pitch, I feel confident.

Usually, 'All Lives Matter' comes as a response to 'Black Lives Matter'; it doesn't exist in a vacuum. So when people say 'Black Lives Matter,' a lot of times the response 'All Lives Matter' can seem very condescending, dismissive to 'Black Lives Matter.'

Light-skinned black people are seen to be closer to white people. The allegiance to lighter-skinned people has operated in a very destructive way that we have internalized ourselves inside black communities. You look at many of the prominent black people in this society who have been able to do well. Many have been lighter-skinned.

The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.

I want to be someone who is a great representation of a black woman in Hollywood, a black woman in the entertainment industry.

First thing is first and let me be clear: I stand with the Black community. Black Lives Matter. There is no room in this world for racism. Period.

I dont think being black has held me back at all. Being black makes you strong.

I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year.

With support from techies, designers, artists and thousands of activists across the country, Black Lives Matter is now an online-to-offline political movement, affirming the humanity and resilience of black communities.

Black is not sad. Bright colours are what depress me. They're so... empty. Black is poetic. How do you imagine a poet? In a bright yellow jacket? Probably not.

The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.

It's better not to talk but to act on the pitch.

The gestures and the swagger and the attitude of black men is imitated everywhere in American culture, but people still find black men intolerable.

It was really bizarre. I was learning how to be a black guy from a white guy pretending to be a black man.

I don't even want to touch on the topic of black quarterback, because I think this game is bigger than black, white or even green.

I love white T-shirts as much as I love black. I often wear total black. It's my favourite.