1,474 Quotes About Black

We came down off our hill and looked towards St. Helens and saw this huge black cloud and thought it was a thunderstorm,

I read something a few years back that said there were a few black players who didn't even know who Jackie Robinson was,

We've got the first generation of significantly educated people. There's a black middle class like never before.

What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution.

Many times they would lynch someone by a railroad track so that passing trains would see and pass the word on and also as a form of intimidation to people in surrounding black community.

It was 1989, and the word 'Muslim' wasn't even really used in Britain at the time; you were either black or Asian.

With red hair, a black face, a cloven foot, and blear eyes, you show the world a prodigy, Zoilus, if you are an honest man

The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.

This signals the end of an era, the civil rights era. And it's a signal of a changing of the guard in black leadership. Look around locally and nationally; the lack of leadership is frightening.