#black

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #black




I like black because it is a vacant space.


Lady Gaga


#black #i #like #space #vacant

In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.


Henry Louis Gates


#black #black community #class #community #divide

The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa.


Henry Louis Gates


#african #allen #ambivalent #american #been

You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ancestors owned slaves. But I've never had a black guest who was upset to learn about white ancestry that probably involved forced sexual relations.


Henry Louis Gates


#again #ancestors #ancestry #black #forced

People think that everyone wears black in France; in fact they all wear grey.


Jean Paul Gaultier


#everyone #fact #france #grey #in fact

When I'm not working I just like to be comfortable: I love black, nothing tight, no heels, no make-up - it's nice to be able to breathe!


Eva Green


#black #breathe #comfortable #heels #i

This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is scared of something. He doesn't have confidence in himself or else he doesn't believe in what he's doing.


Betty Carter


#believe #black #care #confidence #culture

There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any claim to blackness other than the biological. They have forgotten their roots.


Stephen Carter


#biological #black #blackness #claim #conservatives

Showtime has given new, young filmmakers - black, white, across the board - an opportunity to make films, as well as actors who want to cross over into directing.


Morris Chestnut


#black #board #cross #directing #filmmakers

I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.


Bessie Coleman


#blacks #decided #difficulties #experience #faced