Quotes of: Black-america Keyword

What rent do you pay here?" I inquired. "I don’t know,—what is it, Sam?" "All we make," answered Sam. It is a depressing place,—bare, unshaded, with no charm of past association, only a memory of forced human toil,—now, then, and before the w...

The Souls of Black Folk

Only by acknowledging the full extent of slavery's full grip on U.S. Society - its intimate connections to present day wealth and power, the depth of its injury to black Americans, the shocking nearness in time of its true end - can we reconcile the ...

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

Physicians, patients, and ethicists must also understand that acknowledging abuse and encouraging African Americans to participate in research are compatible goals. History and today's deplorable African American health profile tell us clearly that b...

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

The human mind is so limited it can only build an arbitrary heaven — and usually the physical comforts they endow it with are naively the kind that can be perceived as we humans perceive — nothing more. No: perhaps I will awake to find myself bur...

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Like vampires and extremely rich people, black folk can sense one another. Use your Spidey Sense (Blacky Sense?). Use your blackdar to inspect the workplace for signs of Other Negroes. They may be working security for the building. They may be in adm...

Baratunde R. Thurston

Flanagan: Fucking black people, huh? Graham: What did you just say? Flanagan: I mean, I know all the sociological reasons why, per capita eight times more black men are incarcerated than white men... Schools are a disgrace, lack of opportunity, bias ...

Crash

Furious Styles: [referring to drug epidemic] I know every time you turn on the TV thats what you see, Black People, sellin the rock, pushin the rock, pushin the rock, yeah I know. But that wasn't a problem as long as it was here [referring to Compton...

Boyz n the Hood

High buildings fall, black oceans rise, and coins sink in height Where weapons smash in every grace, with every black and white The east drops, the west too, children die and so do old With every sin, and every crime, people drop by their gold The gr...

Yehya El Kouzi

Put your hand in your conscience and see if it does not come out as black as pitch.

Dutch

Once you have been tossed by a buffalo, a black ox looks like a buffalo.

Kenyan

When a miller fights with a chimney sweep, the miller gets black and the chimney sweep gets white.

Yiddish

I had the feeling that all over America such stupid arguments were taking place on street corners and in bars and restaurants. All over America, people were pulling credentials out of their pockets and sticking them under someone else's nose to prove...

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

Because of social strictures against even the mildest swearing, America developed a particularly rich crop of euphemistic expletives - darn, durn, goldurn, goshdad, goshdang, goshawful, blast, consarn, confound, by Jove, by jingo, great guns, by the ...

Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States

correlation between the growing lack of respect for ideas and the imagination and the increasing gap between rich and poor in America, reflected not just in the gulf between the salaries of CEOs and their employees but also in the high cost of educat...

The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books

The pianokeys are black and white but they sound like a million colors in your mind

The Collected Stories of Maria Cristina Mena

[E]very journey is played out between standstill and flight.

Danube: A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Sea

There are many hostelries in his report, which is the true account of an expedition.

Danube: A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Sea

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.

Gift from the Sea

There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey.

Gadiantons and the Silver Sword

We can't change the world by shouting, but our words can have meaning if we give them enough respect.

The Black Banner

If we truly detach from our childhood and abandon our inherent romanticism, then we shred any bit of humanity left in us.

The Black Banner