Black Beauty Quotes

“There’s one more thing I want to say. It’s a touchy subject. Black beauty. Black sensuality. We live in a culture where the beauty of black people isn’t always as celebrated as other types. I’d like to help change that if I can!” ~ Jody Watley

“There is no shame in black beauty.” ~ Lupita Nyong’o

“There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.” ~ Anna Sewell

“Black beauty – he’s a dark horse.” ~ Tim Vine

“Black beauty – he’s a dark horse.” ~ Tim Vine

“The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” ~ William Carlos Williams

“If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness.” ~ Rodney Dangerfield

“Nothing about human beings ever had the power to move me as a child. Black Beauty now … !” ~ Nancy Mitford

“We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.” ~ Anna Sewell

“What right had they to make me suffer like that?” ~ Anna Sewell

“My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my friends under the apple trees.” ~ Anna Sewell

“The way we value black beauty has changed. I’m single now, but back in the slave days, I would have never been single. I’m 6 feet tall and I’m strong. Look at me, I’m a Mandingo.” ~ Leslie Jones

“The way we value black beauty has changed. I’m single now, but back in the slave days, I would have never been single. I’m 6 feet tall and I’m strong. Look at me, I’m a Mandingo.” ~ Leslie Jones

“I liked speed. I was on black beauties all the time. Nothing bad happened to me. I didn’t become a drug addict because I always had to make a movie. We weren’t stoned when we made them; I was stoned when I made movies up. I did them all.” ~ John Waters

“To my mind, fashion is one of the wickedest things in the world.”

“God had given men reason, by which they could find out things for themselves; but he had given animals knowledge which did not depend on reason, and which was much more prompt and perfect in its way, and by which they had often saved the lives of men.” Anna Sewell

“Why don’t they cut their own children’s ears into points to make them look sharp? Why don’t they cut the end off their noses to make them look plucky? One would be just as sensible as the other. What right have they to torment and disfigure God’s creatures?” Anna Sewell

“To my dear and honored Mother, whose life, no less than her pen, has been devoted to the welfare of others, this little book is affectionately dedicated.”

“If we could act a little more according to common sense, and a good deal less according to fashion, we should find many things work easier.”