Black Quotes : Black is an infinite void, a nothingness; the absence of light. Black is also a pigment and therefore can be considered a cooler. In printmaking the black recorded on paper might be perceptibly grey, perhaps warm or cold. As with the value of white, black is subjective and a matter of creative choice.
Black Quotes
Never dull your shine for somebody else.
If you look at how long the Earth has been here, we’re living in the blink of an eye. So, whatever it is you want to do, you go out and do it.
Do not live someone else’s life and someone else’s idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
We’re here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.
You can fool people. You can fool anybody any time of the day, but you can’t fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you’ve got to be straight up with you.
If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.
Success is the sweetest revenge.
Successful people don’t have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.
You have to be able to accept failure to get better.
Get up. Stand up. Speak up. Do something.
Never let someone tell you you’re too small or too slow.
It’s okay to fail; it’s not okay to quit.
If your dream is only about you, it’s too small.
Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child—What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.
If you can’t figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. Your passion will lead you right to your purpose.
Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities.
You can and should set your own limits and clearly articulate them. This takes courage, but it is also liberating and empowering, and often earns you new respect.
I know that in life there will be sickness, devastation, disappointments, and heartache – it’s a given. What’s not a given is the way you choose to get through it all. If you look hard enough, you can always find the bright side.
The easy thing to do is to keep doing what’s always been done, but challenging the status quo can show you things you didn’t know were possible.
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong
Deep Black Quotes
You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.
There’s nothing you can really do to prepare to rock. Do you prepare to eat a delicious meal? Are you hungry? Then you’re gonna eat it.
With the acting, it’s somebody else’s brainchild, and I’m just sort of helping flesh it out. There’s a special satisfaction to being the brains behind the operation.
If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner-up to The D.
I think of myself as an entertainment arsenal. Like I have my acting bazooka and my music machete. And you don’t know what I’m going to come at you with.
The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It’s for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.
I’ve had so many hot, cheesy, corny loves of music in my life. I had a very intense Billy Joel period. So once you’ve really Joined it up—there are some good periods of Joel; it’s not all hot cheese. But I can’t judge anyone else for their cheese. I’ve deep-sea dived in the Gouda.
My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavors. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.
The real challenge is if you don’t look super sexy, like Brad Pitt, you’re going to have to try harder. You’re going to have to make up for it in other ways.
I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the ‘Pink Panther’ theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.
Black is not sad. Bright colors are what depresses me. They’re so… empty. Black is poetic. How do you imagine a poet? In a bright yellow jacket? Probably not.
Women who wear black lead colorful lives.
When in doubt, I always say, wear black. You can never go wrong with black.
I love the color black because it’s perfect. There is no scope of adding anything to it, unlike to other colors.
She wore black, the color of nuns and witches, the color of the loneliest corners of outer space, where gravity prevents all light from escaping, the name given to boxes tucked into airplanes, the ones that explain the disaster.
The night sky is a dignified black princess freckled with the stars. Get lost in her beauty to find it in your darkness.
Black and white, severally incomplete and at the same time completely several.
Why do you always wear black
When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the smartest person in the world. One by one my delusions got shut down. Now I just see myself as the lamest guy in the world.
There’s something about black. You feel hidden away in it.
You can kill a man, but you can’t kill an idea.
Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse, and deprivation cannot be expected to find a voice in a whisper..
Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
You don’t have to live near me; just give me my share of the equality.
When Black women stand up—as they did during the Montgomery Bus Boycott, as they did during the Black liberation era—earth-shaking changes occur.
Children holding hands, walking with the wind. That is America to me—not just the movement for civil rights but the endless struggle to respond with decency, dignity, and a sense of brotherhood to all the challenges that face us as a nation, as a whole.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Sometimes, I am also identified as a civil rights leader or a human rights activist. I would also like to be thought of as a complex, three-dimensional, flesh-and-blood human being with a rich storehouse of experiences, much like everyone else yet unique in my own way, much like everyone else.
Truth is powerful, and it prevails.
Let us be dissatisfied until that day when nobody will shout “White power!”, when nobody will shout “Black power!”, but everybody will talk about God’s power and human power.
We were coloreds or Negroes, and to call someone Black was to invite a fistfight. But Malcolm remade the menace inherent in that name into something mystical—Black Power; Black Is Beautiful; It’s a Black thing; you wouldn’t understand.
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
Let a woman’s claim be as broad in the concrete as the abstract. We take our stand on the solidarity of humanity, the oneness of life, and the unnaturalness and injustice of all special favoritism, whether of sex, race, country, or condition. If one link of the chain is broken, the chain is broken.
Race is a constant factor in American life. Yet, reacting to every incident, real or imagined, is crippling, tiring, and ultimately counterproductive.
I suffered first as a child from discrimination, and poverty … So I think it was a natural follow from that that I should use my camera to speak for people who are unable to speak for themselves.
I knew then, and I know now when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it.
When we’re talking about diversity, it’s not a box to check. It is a reality that should be deeply felt and held and valued by all of us.
Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Loving God is like my being Black. I just am. [No one says] ‘You know what? I’m gonna be blacker today!’ It’s my culture. It’s not something I put on or take off or show more. You just communicate that in the way you live your life.
What I’m really praying is that we, as a people, understand that we are interdependent upon each other. We don’t want police to leave; we want to police in our world. But I think that people aren’t comfortable with each other.
Black Quotes for Instagram
Don’t ever think I fell for you or fell over you. I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God.
True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.
Kindness eases change, Love quiets fear.
I found God in myself, and I loved her, I loved her fiercely.
I have learned not to worry about love, but to honor it’s coming with all my heart.
No. Don’t ever go looking for a loving girl. Just wait. It’ll come. Like the rain fallin’ from the heaven, it’ll come. Just don’t never give up on love.
I know who I married, too. You’re in me. When I touch you, your flesh communicates with my bones.
Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
A good color picture is usually a good black and white too.
Landscapes are where photography began, and in the beginning, black and white was all there was.
Black and white are the colors of photography. To me, they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.
Nothing conveys mood and emotion quite like a good black-and-white image. But simply removing color from an image is unlikely to achieve this.
Black and white have an unsurpassed ability to convey character.
Good black-and-white photography is not about the removal of color!
My philosophy, like color television, is all there in black and white.
Admiring black and white photos is often what first starts people out on their own road to becoming keen photographers.
A natural self-limitation in photography is to leave out the color and present the world in black and white.
I think every subject deserves to be treated as just what they are, an individual. It’s quite often I will think ‘this is going to look great in black and white’ though. In fact, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a black and white photograph and thought ‘that would look great in color’.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Love is not a color. Character is not a shade of skin black.
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is ‘What are you doing for others?’.
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Before we start talking about genetic differences, you gotta come up with a system where there’s equal opportunity. Then we can have that conversation.
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.
Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.
You’re not to be so blind by patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
To serve, you only need a heart full of grace and a soul generated by love.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.
I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for or against.
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
I swear to the Lord I still can’t see why democracy means everybody but me.
Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.
Black people have always been America’s wilderness in search of a promised land.
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