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Quotes About Black

Clunk! Something hit the back of his head and he turned quickly, silently, and peered through the gap in the leaves to where Temba crouched in another tree, waiting, his black skin scarcely visible in the deep green shade among the branches. Temba moved his left arm slowly, pointing down to Madu's right.
~ Tim Vicary
complete with driving winds and a sky nearly black enough to turn the twilight of the city and surrounding countryside into full night.
~ Timothy Zahn
The sky was a velvety black paw pressing on the white landscape with a feline delicacy, stars flying like sparks from its fur.
~ Tom Robbins
Black women were armed; black women were dangerous and the less money they had the deadlier the weapon they chose.
~ Toni Morrison
What solicited my attention was whether the cultural associations of jazz were as important to Cardinal's "possession" as were its intellectual foundations. I was interested, as I had been... in the way black people ignite critical moments of discovery or change or emphasis in literature not written by them. In fact I had started, casually like a game, keeping a file of such instances.
~ Toni Morrison
At sunrise, he said, they turned copper and you knew they'd been at it all night. At noon they were silvery gray. Then afternoon blue, then evening black. Moving, moving, all the time moving.
~ Toni Morrison
They seemed to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorance, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it all up into a fiery cone of scorn that had burned for ages in the hollows of their minds—cooled—and spilled over lips of outrage, consuming whatever was in its path. They danced a macabre ballet around the victim, whom, for their own sake, they were prepared to sacrifice to the flaming pit. Black
~ Toni Morrison
in the clear brown were little flecks of black like pieces of bark
~ Tracy Chevalier
E major's the key of the Black Tourmaline, Sapphire sings in F major, and bright is her sheen. Then almost at once, comes Diamond alone, Whose sign of the lion as Leo is known. Projectio! Time flows on, both present and past. Ruby red is the first and is also the last.
~ Kerstin Gier
Chess works because the board is black and white. Life works because our brains are black and white. But wisdom lies in knowledge of the grey.
~ Kevin Dutton
most of the work toward empowering Black males must come from Black males. And nowhere is our love of God more evident than through acts of service.
~ Kevin Powell
The apocalypse sounds like this-- black men breaking in to steal back the thing once stole from them.
~ Kevin Young
Cockroaches were a problem, too, and to me the people who invented Combat, the little black roach-trapping contraption, are urban folk heroes.
~ Kim Gordon
it's black and beautiful, bright and open...it's beauty won't end...just like you!
~ Kim Shaw
It" was continuing. The game was undeniably in progress. A long funeral procession, a crowd of peoplewearing black. A man in a black suit with a somber know-it-all face addressed them, "Oh, ShuyaNanahara and Noriko Nakagawa? You two, that's right, you're a little early. But you did just pass byyour own graves right here. We carved in the number you two share, No. 15. Don't worry, we'reoffering a special bonus.
~ Koushun Takami
Melanin endows Blacks with greater mental, physical and spiritual abilities--something which cannot be measured based on Eurocentric standards.
~ Kristen Clarke
At other times the children discerned in the water of the vase a figure which Giuliano recognized as the 'mistress of the game', (a designation used alternately for Diana and Herodias) who 'clothed in black, with a chin to her stomach', appeared before Giuliano himself, saying she was ready to reveal to him 'the properties of herbs and the nature of animals
~ Carlo Ginzburg
It is the curious local structure of the present that produces black holes.
~ Carlo Rovelli
Faris turned on him. "Why choose to wear black today, of all days? I know why I'm in black. Why are you? Mourning? He looked startled. "One does not wear mourning for a servant." You still don't understand, do you? He was not my servant." He regarded her anger, aghast. "What then? What else could he be? Her empty hands shook as she held them out to him. Her voice shook as she replied, "Glove to my hand." Slowly she closed her fists. "Everything.
~ Caroline Stevermer
It means 'Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234'.
~ Cassandra Clare
What do you want?" "Just coffee. Black - like my soul.
~ Cassandra Clare
His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin.
~ George R.R. Martin
Ned was clad in a white linen doublet with the direwolf of Stark on the breast; his black wool cloak was fastened at the collar by his silver hand of office. Black and white and grey, all the shades of truth.
~ George R.R. Martin
Black and white and grey, all the shades of truth.
~ George R.R. Martin