Tawanna Black Quotes

An open mind is a traveled mind. ~ Tawanna Browne Smith

Black, intelligent, and educated... Now that's POWER. ~ Stephanie Lahart

This Queen right here is educated and beautiful with a degree. ~ Stephanie Lahart

If indeed all lives mattered, we would not need to emphatically proclaim that "Black Lives Matter." Or, as we discover on the BLM website: Black Women Matter, Black Girls Matter, Black Gay Lives Matter, Black Bi Lives Matter, Black Boys Matter, Black Queer Lives Matter, Black Men Matter, Black Lesbians Matter, Black Trans Lives Matter, Black Immigrants Matter, Black Incarcerated Lives Matter. Black Differently Abled Lives Matter. Yes, Black Lives Matter, Latino/Asian American/Native American/Muslim/Poor and Working-Class White Peoples Lives matter. There are many more specific instances we would have to nane before we can ethically and comfortably claim that All Lives Matter. ~ Angela Y. Davis

Through Miss Behave I am attempting to reclaim my voice one word at a time and live my truth to the best of my ability ~ Malebo Sephodi

Be Black, buy Black, think Black, and all else will take care of itself. ~ Marcus Garvey

We go hard in the ink! ~ K'wan

Dear Young Black Males… Our Future Black Kings: I'm 100% rooting for you, I wholeheartedly believe in you, I deeply care about you, I genuinely love you, and I honestly want to see you succeed in EVERY area of your life. ~ Stephanie Lahart

Uplift. Inspire. Elevate. Black Women Win! ~ Stephanie Lahart

It's ironic when black non-Muslims say Islam is not a religion that uplifts black people when two of the most celebrated black heroes in recent history were both Muslim; Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali. ~ Habeeb Akande

Black Barbie? Nah… I'm an unapologetic Exquisite Black Queen who's intelligent, creative, courageous, confident, ambitious, and authentic. My beauty is just a bonus! ~ Stephanie Lahart

I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa. ~ Langston Hughes

Black bodies have become ornamental, haven't they? ~ Darnell Lamont Walker

ALPHA: sleek black-and-brown female with a white fang-shaped mark below her ear (also known as Blade) BETA: huge black-and-tan male (also known as Mace) DAGGER - brown-and-tan male with a stubby face PISTOL - black-and-tan female BRUTE - black-and-tan male RIPPER - black-and-tan female REVOLVER - black-and-tan male AXE - large black-and-brown male SCYTHE - large black-and-tan female BLUDGEON - massive black-and-tan male MUSKET - black-and-brown male CANNON - brown-and-tan female LANCE - black-and-tan male ARROW - young black-and-tan male OMEGA: smaller black-and-brown male (also known as Bullet) PUPS: FANG - brown-and-tan male LONE ~ Erin Hunter

There's something about black. You feel hidden away in it. ~ Georgia O'Keeffe

I'm a powerful being ... a wizard," Corny said. "So don't try anything."
"Yes," said the little faery, blinking black eyes rapidly. "No. Try nothing. ~ Holly Black

In fact, she realized when they finally found their table and sat down, every single woman at the banquet was dressed in some variation of back. Black silk, black chiffon, black with beads, black with rhinestones, short black cocktail dresses, black evening dresses, and even black pantsuits. All black. There was no way she was going to get lost in this crowd, not in her pink-and-orange poppy print ~ Leslie Meier

The Black Man... He can, he does, he WINS. ~ Stephanie Lahart

As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write songs for black voices. ~ Mike Stoller

There's no Chanel collection without black. (It) will never exist. Who can live without some black clothes. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

To me, goth is like really hard black lipstick, black nails, black clothes. ~ Shawna Thompson

I'm a black man that is proud to be black, and I want to help the black community, but I love all mankind. ~ Common

Black female entrepreneurs don't make excuses, we find solutions. We're leaders, resourceful, ambitious, hardworking, and creative. We're powerful, unstoppable, confident, smart, and fearless. We're Exquisite Black Queens that represent Black Excellence… We are success! There's no denying it… Black female entrepreneurs are resilient and we rock! ~ Stephanie Lahart

One's truest nature is often the hardest to fight. ~ Vortigern Black

The community certainly included black English professors, like my mother, as well as black doctors and dentists, black mechanics, janitors, and contractors, black cobblers, wedding planners, real estate agents, and undertakers, several black lawyers, and a handful of black Mary Kay salespeople. As a child, however, I knew so many African Americans working in science, math, and engineering that I thought that's just what black folks did. ~ Margot Lee Shetterly

I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health. ~ Bell Hooks

Black Girls… Just be BRAVE. ~ Stephanie Lahart

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white. ~ Doris Lessing

Black women were beautifully created at birth. We were blessed with melanin in our skin, which makes us Exquisitely Beautiful. From the lightest to the darkest skin tone, our melanin is Fiercely Poppin' on Purpose. There's no denying it, a Black woman's beauty is elegant! We are Black Queens... Uniquely perfect, flaws and all! ~ Stephanie Lahart

It was darker than a pitch-black panther, covered in tar, eating black licorice at the very bottom of the deepest part of the Black Sea. ~ Lemony Snicket

It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor. ~ Larry Holmes

People called me 'Iman the black model'. In my country, we're all black, so nobody called somebody else black. It was foreign to my ears. ~ Iman

Dear Exquisite Black Queen... No matter what shade of MELANIN you are, know that your skin tone is brilliant. You, my Queen, are phenomenally made! ~ Stephanie Lahart

If you don't know why you're apologizing, your apology probably sucks. ~ Holly Black

Black women have been cultured to compare not connect. ~ Michaela Angela Davis

Black makes your life so much simpler. Everything matches black, especially black. ~ Nora Ephron

First time I got the full sight of Shug Avery long black body with it black plum nipples, look like her mouth, I thought I had turned into a man ~ Alice Walker

When in doubt, I always say, wear black. You can never go wrong with black. ~ Meg Cabot

Black was bestlooking ... Ebony was the best wood, the hardest wood; it was black. Virginia ham was the best ham. It was black on the outside. Tuxedos and tail coats were black and they were a man's finest, most expensive clothes. You had to use pepper to make most meats and vegetables fit to eat. The most flavorsome pepper was black. The best caviar was black. The rarest jewels were black: black opals, black pearls. ~ Ann Petry

I am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the rights of black people everywhere. ~ Allan Dare Pearce

We'll worry about cock holding later. ~ Lilly Black

Busy Building FUND$ While Y'all Have FUN. ~ Stephanie Lahart

Well who's black and what is a black person? ~ Pam Grier

There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black writer's book that everybody is going to be Black. ~ Gabrielle Union

You're the mold. ~ Lilly Black

Racist dermatologists think all black people have really bad skin. ~ Anthony Jeselnik

You want fucked? ~ Lilly Black

My composition often goes toward the black middle class or the black super-wealthy or strong historical black figures. ~ Rashid Johnson

I am a Black woman... Exquisite from the inside out. ~ Stephanie Lahart

I think that many black people thought this would be a wonderful and extraordinary thing, for a black family to occupy the White House. Not only black people; a lot of white people thought that, too, but particularly black people. ~ Randall Kennedy

He knew that the King was so much bigger than the circumstances they faced. ~ Chuck Black

There's a lot of racism going on. Who's more racist, black people or white people? It's black people! You know why? Because we hate black people too! Everything white people don't like about black people, black people really don't like about black people. ~ Chris Rock

Black drinks the sun and draws all colours into it.
I am bleached white, my truant love. Come back,
and stain me with the intensity of black. ~ Robert Graves

In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men. ~ Audre Lorde

I read so much stuff that black women say, especially about my relationship. 'Oh, he left his black wife to go be with some exotic chick.' First of all, my girl is black: she's Jamaican. ~ Kevin Hart

Dear Exquisite Black Queen… You are original, unique, and exquisite! Embrace your imperfections with confidence and self-love. Your authentic self is your best self! Flaws and all, you're still a rare gem! Black woman, you are phenomenal, please believe that! ~ Stephanie Lahart

I don't see myself as the Great Black Hope. I'm just a golfer who happens to be black and Asian. It doesn't matter whether they're white, black, brown or green. ~ Tiger Woods

What would America be like if we loved black people as much as we loved black culture? ~ Amandla Stenberg

Don't you dare come into my world and tell me what color the ocean is! It's black. Black as midnight. Black and awful! ~ Nadia Scrieva

[ ... ] the only folks who kill black folks any more are black folks. [ ... ] black folks kill more black folks than the KKK ever did. ~ Michael Nutter

What!? You tell people that, I won't get no more black movies? ~ Chris Tucker

When the charge first came up, I hated black women. Then, going to trial, I started seeing the black women that was helping me. It's mostly black female guards. They treat me with human respect. ~ Tupac Shakur

I've always had an interest in complicating the way that we perceive the black character, whether it's the black academic or scholar or activist or black intellectual. ~ Rashid Johnson

Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white ... to highlight that contrast. ~ Leonard Nimoy

There's nothing quite as funny as someone else's misery - Cassel Sharpe ~ Holly Black

Liberalism Has Nearly Destroyed Black America, And Now It's Time For Black America To Return The Favor ~ Elbert Guillory

Black Girls rock because we have no other choice. ~ Iyanla Vanzant

The velvet darkness of his face ~ Camilla Gibb

There was a great deal of inbreeding between the Indians and the slaves. Genetically speaking, black people are some part black, some part European. ~ Alex Haley

It would seem that some black people want to say that when you, as a black, become successful, you cease to be black. That's ridiculous. ~ Clarence Thomas

I don't know if you've noticed, but our two-party system is a bowl of shit looking at itself in the mirror. ~ Lewis Black

Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering "who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?" ~ Chuck Berry

I've had days when I go in my bedroom for 24 hours at a time. I call them my Cilla Black days, and they're literally black days. It's like the old Boomtown Rats song 'I Don't Like Mondays.' You just want to shut the whole day down. ~ Cilla Black

I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman. ~ David Alan Grier

No, I'm NOT Team Light Skin. No, I'm NOT Team Dark Skin. No, I'm NOT Team Brown Skin. I'm Team Melanin because we are one! I'm a Black Queen that celebrates ALL shades of Black beauty. Black women and Black girls are equally beautiful in EVERY shade. Our skin tones are Exquisite Beauty. Respect the complexion! ~ Stephanie Lahart

I've gotten a firsthand view at the destruction that black men and black women not being able to stay and build healthy relationships has had on the black family and black children. ~ Hill Harper

If you are a crazy person who needs to have clandestine meetings, then, just like in real estate, what matters most is location, location, location. ~ Holly Black

There's one thing about Black Sabbath which should not be understated: If Black Sabbath is missing any one of its members it's no longer Black Sabbath. ~ Henry Rollins

Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions of masculinity. ~ Bell Hooks

Stereotypes wouldn't be so bad if black people were nicer, in general. ~ Anthony Jeselnik

Some black filmmakers will say, "I don't want to be considered a black filmmaker, I'm a filmmaker." I don't think that. I'm a black woman filmmaker. ~ Ava DuVernay

Better she never be a bride than wind up a widow ~ Holly Black

Take comfort in the devil you know. It may be safer then the one you don't ~ Vortigern Black

Park looked good in black. It made him look like he was drawn in charcoal. Thick, arched, black eyebrows. Short, black eyelashes. High, shining cheeks. ~ Rainbow Rowell

These are my soldiers. Standing single-file line in their assembly uniforms. Black shirts, black pants, black boots. No guns. Left fist pressed against their hearts. ~ Tahereh Mafi

Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy - but mysterious. But above all black says this: "I don't bother you - don't bother me". ~ Yohji Yamamoto

The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them. ~ Jean-Michel Basquiat

She was unprepared for how much the way into Coldtown looked like a shoddily run DMV. ~ Holly Black

The black man in North America was sickest of all politically. He let the white man divide him into such foolishness as considering himself a black 'Democrat,' a black 'Republican,' a black 'Conservative,' or a black 'Liberal' ... when a ten-million black vote bloc could be the deciding balance of power in American politics, because the white man's vote is almost always evenly divided. ~ Malcolm X

Black man cleans the streets but mustn't walk freely on the pavement; Black man must build houses for the white man but cannot live in them; Black man cooks the white man's food but eats what is left over. Don't listen to anyone bluff you and say Black and white are brothers. ~ Es’kia Mphahlele

I wish BET did more to represent the full spectrum of black experiences in a balanced manner. If you watch BET, you get the sense that the only way black people succeed is through professional sports, music, or marrying/fucking/being a baby mama of someone who is involved with professional sports or music. ~ Roxane Gay

Do you know what the Turkish say about coffee? It should be black as hell, strong as death, and sweet as love. ~ Holly Black

I was wearing black clothes almost from the beginning. I feel comfortable in black. I felt like black looked good onstage, that it was attractive, so I started wearing it all the time. ~ Johnny Cash

But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people. ~ Charles Barkley

If the churches don't move, much of the community won't move. We've got a situation in which a black church is still a major institution in the black community where 55 percent of the black folk attend and over 75 pass through its doors. ~ Cornel West

At screenings for 'Black in America,' I've heard people say, 'Well you know, I never thought you were black until you did Katrina, and then I thought you were black.' ~ Soledad O'Brien

Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups. ~ Ben Horowitz

How can we teach our children to respect Black women if Black women don't respect Black women? ~ T.D. Jakes

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

The Negro comes in many colors. Dark. Black. Blacker. Blackest. Blacker than night. Black as hell. Black as tar. ~ James McBride