Black Love Quotes
1. “Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” – James Baldwin
2. “We choose love. Our love for our children. Our commitment to leaving them a better world. Our love for our country … our love for our fellow citizens … that’s what we choose.”– Michelle Obama
3. “To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients – care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, and trust, as well as honest and open communication.”– Bell Hooks
4. “Love sometimes means letting go of something that isn’t right for you. It’s important to walk away from toxic people and things going on in your life. Love gives you strength and courage.”– Lucille Clifton
5. “Love is a feeling that’s similar to being on a tropical island. It makes you feel like you are safe and living in a peaceful world. Love will bring you peace and joy.”– Octavia E. Butler
6. “To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are not prepared to give, we seek romantic relationships. We believe these relationships, more than any other, will rescue and redeem us. 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.”– Bell Hooks
7. “She asked, ‘You are in love. What does it look like?’, to which I replied ‘Like everything I’ve ever lost come back to me.’” – Nayyirah Waheed
8. “Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.” – Maya Angelou
9. “There are people in the world who will love you and people in the world who will hurt you, and there are people in the world who will do both. When it’s over and it’s gone, you almost wish that you could have all that bad stuff back so you can have the good.”– Rihanna
10. “The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We’re still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings.”– Halle Berry
11. “Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
12. “Being in love with someone will make you come out of your comfort zone. ”Zora Neale Hurston
13. “I am grateful to have been loved, and to be loved now and to be able to love. Because love liberates.”– Maya Angelou
14. “Out of love, no regrets–though the goodness be wasted forever. Out of love, no regrets–though the return be never.” ― Langston Hughes
15. “I found god in myself and I loved her- I loved her fiercely”– Ntozake Shange
16. “Paradise is one’s own place, one’s own people, one’s own world, knowing and known, perhaps even loving and loved.”– Octavia E. Butler
17. “Love is an endless act of forgiveness. Forgiveness is me giving up the right to hurt you for hurting me.”– Beyoncé
18. “When you love and accept yourself when you know who really cares about you, and you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.”– Beyonce
19. “A man who isn’t willing to fight for love will always be alone.”– Malcolm X
20. “When you’re truly in love, you will never have anything to hide.”– Jay-Z
21. “Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.”– Maya Angelou
22. “If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.” – Maya Angelou
23. “Love means accepting many faults and taking revenge out of your vocabulary. If you love someone, let go of the pain and move on with that person.”– Beyonce
24. “When we first met, I never felt something so strong. You were like my lover and my best friend all wrapped into one with a ribbon on it.”– Rihanna
25. “Love is so blind it feels right when it’s wrong.”– Beyonce
25. “Love can hurt, but it shouldn’t stop you from pursuing it. When you love someone, you shouldn’t regret it. The feeling is worth all of the pain you may endure from it.”– Langston Hughes
27. “Finding love within yourself is truly an act of God. Love is about accepting everything about yourself.”– by Ntozake Shange
28. “Don’t ever think I fell for you or fell over you. I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.”– Toni Morrison
29. “Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.”– Nikki Giovanni
30. “The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.”– Zadie Smith
31. “Paradise is one’s own place, One’s own people, One’s own world, Knowing and known, Perhaps even Loving and loved.” – Octavia Butler
32. “Kindness eases change, Love quiets fear.”– Octavia Butler
33. “I found God in myself, and I loved her, I loved her fiercely.”– Ntozake Shange
34. “If we lose love and self-respect for each other, this is how we finally die.” – Maya Angelou
35. “No. Don’t never go looking for love girl. Just wait. It’ll come. Like the rain fallin’ from the heaven, it’ll come. Just don’t never give up on love.” – Sonia Sanchez
36. “I hope I’ll always believe in love. Even if love shames me and tries to destroy me, I hope I’ll want to start again.”– Warshan Shire
37. “Loving you was like going to war; I never came back the same.”– Warshan Shire
38. “We have all hurt someone tremendously, whether by intent or accident. We have all loved someone tremendously, whether by intent or accident. It is an intrinsic human trait, and a deep responsibility, I think, to be an organ and a blade. But, learning to forgive ourselves and others because we have not chosen wisely is what makes us most human. We make horrible mistakes. It’s how we learn. We breathe love. It’s how we learn. And it is inevitable.” – Nayyirah Waheed
39. “You must leave me now, but I feel good in my heart, we stayed together and in love; only death caused us to part.” – Margaret H. Oliver
40. “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”– Nelson Mandela
