One thing that's coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing.
Dylan Moran

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
Harrison Ford

There are no black people in Iraq, so how will they know who to shoot at?
Greg Giraldo

Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.
Laurence Olivier

When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?
Benjamin Harrison

There is no such thing as a black middle class.
H. Rap Brown

In the beginning it was all black and white.
Maureen O'Hara

I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos.
Sun Ra

Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man.
Peter Abrahams

Audiences in London called me the girl with the black cherry eyes.
Maureen O'Hara

Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.
Eden Ahbez

I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me.
Ornette Coleman

During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.
Jonathan Kozol

Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.
Robert Frank

So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.
H. Rap Brown

But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.
H. Rap Brown

In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the Mexican American, the Puerto Rican American, the American Indian, and black people.
H. Rap Brown

Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
H. Rap Brown

The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
H. Rap Brown

The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.
H. Rap Brown