B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Black veins were filling the garden, spreading like escaped ink. Darkness, darkness everywhere. It was night, without any moons or stars.”
Source: Once Upon a Broken Heart
“Black-velvet butterflies fill my room,
and when my eyes are open, I watch them,
and I let the wanting fill me.”
Source: I Am the Swarm
“Black Velvet in that little boys smile, Black Velvet with that slow southern style. A new religion that'll bring you to your knees.”
“Black vintners in this country make some really great wines. Explore a wine list and you will find at least one of our wines in the best restaurants. Buy a bottle for your table, and let management know you appreciate them including a Black winemaker in their stock.”
“Black Votes are worth far more than a Chicken Sandwich.”
“Black Votes are worth far more than a Fish Sandwich.”
“Black Votes are worth far more than a Hot Dog.”
“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.”
“Black, white, brown or martian - at the end of the day, you'll find good and evil in every corner of the world. You'll find apes peddling segregation in the name of preserving heritage and purity, in every corner of the world, just like you'll find humans standing up for love and oneness, in every corner of the world. It has nothing to do with ethnicity of a person, and everything to do with humanity of the person.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“Black, white, brown or muslim,
or any qaum* of the human world,
no society is civilized society,
till no *community is marginal.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“Black, white, brown, red, yellow, hetero, homo, trans, poor, rich, literate, illiterate, weak, strong – all are my sisters and brothers.”
Source: I Am The Thread: My Mission
“Black, white, brown, red, yellow, hetero, homo, trans, poor, rich, literate, illiterate, weak, strong – all are my sisters and brothers. My life is their life. And till the last breath in my body, I shall be serving you with all the power in my veins. And beyond death, my ideas shall be serving you for eternity.”
Source: I Am The Thread: My Mission
“Black Widow by Stewart Stafford
She blinds me with her caress.
Hand upon my chest,
Venom kisses like snake bites
ecstatic and unbecoming night.
She drags me to her tomb,
graveyard of many a groom,
Lovers wrapped in silken lace,
In webs of death, find their place.
Creeping dawn on morn,
Frostbitten and reborn,
Clinging on so tight,
Her kiss, the shroud of night.
© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
“Black widows may be powerful predators, but every predator is somebody else's prey.”
“Black wines have become the rage over the last 20 years. I prefer our wines to be red.”
“Black women . . . work because their husbands can't make enough money at their jobs to keep everything going. . . . They don't go to work to find fulfillment, or adventure, or glamour and romance, like so many white women think they are doing. Black women work out of necessity.”
Source: Wilma
“Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.”
“Black women and Black girls are beautiful in EVERY shade. We are exquisite… Respect our complexions!”
“Black Women and Black Girls are Exquisite Beauty in EVERY Shade.”
“Black women and Black girls in STEM are phenomenal! They’re intelligent, fearless, resilient, and unstoppable. They exude confidence, strength, determination, and excellence. Accept it… Black females in STEM rock!”
“Black women are going to have to take more leadership. I think we are prepared because we bring a tenaciousness with us. We do not fear losing friends, allies, or jobs.”
“Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“Black women are some of the most colorful women in the world. We come in all shadeshave so many hair textures..eye colors..body types. In this generation, it's sad to see so many black girls claiming ethnicities that they know nothing about in hopes of impressing a man or appearing 'exotic'. So many people act as if being black and beautiful is impossible. It's not. If we wanna get technical and look at our history, almost every black American is mixed. But we must stop implying that a woman's beauty comes from a part of her that is not black.”
“Black women are supposed to be 'strong,' but the burden of carrying our race and carrying our families adds the pressure.”
“Black women are taught to move through this country not only bearing the regular indignities and slights that come with preconceived notion of Black women, but also the scars of our history.”
Source: Grief Is Love: Living with Loss
“Black women are the touchstone by which all that is human can be measured.”
Source: What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction
“Black women are very capable of leading our organizations. I believe that firmly.”
“black women breathe flowers, too.
just because
we are taught to grow them in the lining of our quiet (our grandmothers secret)
does nor mean
we do not swelter with wild tenderness.
we soft swim.
we petal.
we scent limbs.
love.
we just have been too long a garden for sharp and deadly teeth.
so we
have
grown
ourselfves
into
greenhouses.”
Source: Salt
“Black women control the world. We are through being discriminated against.”
“Black women don’t have to cheat, lie, or manipulate to succeed. We are unapologetic Exquisite Black Queens: the REAL game-changers. Our brilliance, confidence, fearlessness, resilience, and strength are unmatched. We lead intentionally, empower with purpose, and set the standard for others to follow and learn. We TRULY rock on a phenomenal level.”
“Black women don’t have to cheat, lie, or manipulate to win. We are Unapologetic Exquisite Black Queens… The REAL game-changers!”
“Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies.”
“Black women have always been at the bottom of the human race. In that bottom of a pit, they were abused, misjudged, neglected, and unseen. In the end, there were two options left for them; to diminish and die, or to be strong and rise like a phoenix from the ashes.
Today, black women are using their strength to make an imprint of their existence. They are here to conquer the brutal neglect, injustice, hatred, mistreatment, and inequality.
Black women are saying: here we are in all our beauty, glory, strength, and assertiveness. See us. Know us. Recognise us. Give us what we're worth. Above all else, respect us.”
“Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn't have each other you had nothing.”
“Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?”
“Black women have been cultured to compare not connect.”
“Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group. They have had to understand white men, white women, and black men. And they have had to understand themselves. When black women win victories, it is a boost for virtually every segment of society.”
“Black women have incomparable faith, strength, resilience, creativity, and work ethic. There’s nothing that we can’t do or be! We’re Exquisite Black Queens… Born with excellence inside our DNA. We were, are, and will always be royalty!”
“Black women have kinky hair, and we think we have limitations on what we can do. It's interesting that people think, 'Oh this is the only thing they can do.' But if you have blonde, straight hair and don't change it for 20 years - nobody thinks about it. Nobody says anything!”
“Black women have long been the backbone of our political progressive past: the strategists and protesters and organizers and volunteers, the women who've gotten out the vote and licked the envelopes, pioneered the thinking that led to the revolutions. Yet they've been only barely represented in leadership of the political parties they've bolstered, their policy priorities have often gone unaddressed and unrecognized; their participation has long been taken for granted. And when white women have caught up to where black women have been for a long time, the work of the black women has often been appropriated, ignored, and uncredited by those with greater economic, cultural, and racial advantage.”
Source: Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger
“Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits.”
“Black women must challenge black men to live up to their best in every arena of the culture -
at job, at home, in school and in religious arenas.”
“Black women must help black men understand their full potential lies not in denying black women full access to their humanity and opportunity, but in working diligently to overcome the odds that hamper our progress. Yes, some of that is self-imposed, and we must confront it; and much of it comes from outside. But without courageous and brilliant black women, our communities are greatly diminished.”
“Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future.”
“Black women's history is a tale of fierce determination, sass, and unyielding resilience. From Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?" speech to Maya Angelou's poetic prowess, they've left a trail of fabulousness in their wake. With style, grace they've faced adversity head-on and emerged as queens of their own narratives. So let's raise a glass this February to the trailblazers, the game-changers, and the unsung heroes!”
“Black Women save lives”
“Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“Black women - the world knows that we are strong because our strength is legendary. We are Harriet Tubman, Michelle Obama, and Rosa Parks. We are Oprah Winfrey, Nanny, and Mae Jameson. We are Shirley Chisholm, Portia Simpson and Maya Angelou. We have birthed a nation, rescued slaves, built empires, traveled to space and written our place in history. Survival is not enough; we were built to rise.”
Source: The Heart and Soul of Black Women: Poems of Love, Struggle and Resilience
“Black women," Toya said as I walked her to the subway, "are the meatloaf at a Greek diner. People sometimes talk about ordering it, but everyone's surprised when someone does, even black men.”
Source: Aftershocks
“Black women, we deserve deep and abiding love. We deserve love without having to struggle, without having to prove ourselves worthy, without having to be the "ride or die" girl. Love, loyalty and respect just because we have a beautiful soul.”
Source: The Heart and Soul of Black Women: Poems of Love, Struggle and Resilience