Quotes of: Black Keyword

There's sort of a persistent misperception that talking about race is black folk's burden. Ultimately, only men can end sexism, and only white people can end racism.

Benjamin Todd Jealous

So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.

Don Cheadle

Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.

Gabrielle Union

And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.

Phyllis Schlafly

I think America loves cooperative black men. I am not against Colin Powell, but I know who he is.

Sister Souljah

There's no doubt that Mexican men and women full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States.

Vicente Fox

Rachel Stein aka Ellis de Vries: I never knew this would happen. To fear the liberation...

Black Book

Yurek: [Looks at Nelson strangely] What's wrong with him? Twombly: Oh, he's deaf. My fault.

Black Hawk Down

General Garrison: If we don't hold down this city we are gonna have 100 caskets to fill by morning.

Black Hawk Down

[after an explosion] Sanderson: Are you alright? Grimes: Yeah, I can hear bells ringin'!

Black Hawk Down

Abdullah 'Firimbi' Hassan: You Americans don't smoke anymore. You live long, dull and uninteresting lives.

Black Hawk Down

Maddox: [after losing his vision, he tells McKnight] I can't see shit, sir.

Black Hawk Down

[Watching a Somali mother pick up a gun] Specialist Mike Kurth: Don't do it lady!

Black Hawk Down

Crew Chief: Hey, Grimesy! No fear! Grimes: Oh, yeah, RIGHT!

Black Hawk Down

Garrison: You know, the last one of these guys shot himself in the head playing Russian-Roulette in a bar.

Black Hawk Down

[Spoken in Somali when capturing Mike Durant] Abdullah 'Firimbi' Hassan: Mohammad Farid Aidid... claims this prisoner... alive!

Black Hawk Down

[with blood covering his face, speaking to Col. McKnight] Othic: Colonel, I can't see shit.

Black Hawk Down

The Stranger: Darkness warshed over the Dude - darker'n a black steer's tookus on a moonless prairie night. There was no bottom.

The Big Lebowski

[first lines] Nina Sayers: I had the craziest dream last night. I was dancing the White Swan.

Black Swan

Erica: It's the role, isn't it? It's all this pressure? I knew it would be too much. I knew it!

Black Swan

Thomas Leroy: I got a little homework assignment for you. Go home and touch yourself. Live a little.

Black Swan