Quotes of: Black-america Keyword

But, alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging.

The Black Cauldron

He [Harry Bosch] defined good company not by the conversation but by the lack of it. When there was no need to talk to feel comfortable, that was the right company

The Black Echo

Rule number four for me as a writer? Plotlines are like sharks: They either keep moving or they die. ~J.R. Ward

The Black Dagger Brotherhood: An Insider's Guide

We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.

Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life

After all, you’re only an immortal until someone manages to kill you. After that, you were just long-lived.

The Bride Wore Black Leather

It was any outcast's nightmare. If I looked carefully, I suspected I might find it beneath the black paint of the small acrylic by the window.

Black Mirror

If the first job one has in a given profession acts as a tuning fork for the career that follows, Frederick Thomas was attuned from the start to a pitch of the highest quality.

The Black Russian

It is easy to be clever if you leave something important out.

The Black Goddess and the Unseen Real: Our Uncommon Senses and Their Common Sense

Data that comes subliminally and is acted upon will look like luck or inspiration.

The Black Goddess and the Unseen Real: Our Uncommon Senses and Their Common Sense

There are some catastrophes that a poor writer's pen cannot describe and which he is obliged to leave to the imagination of his readers with a bald statement of the facts.

The Black Tulip

Stunt performing is a highly structured career path - you have to gain qualifications in six different sports to a high standard. It takes four or five years and costs at least £20,000; a black belt in a martial art from scratch costs a fortune.

Steve Truglia

Eyes as black and as shiny as chips of obsidian stared back into his. They were eyes like black holes, letting nothing out, not even information.

Anansi Boys

It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physical light and mental light coexist on very poor terms.

Anthology of Black Humor

There was nothing better than the feel of a book in your hand, listening to the crinkling sounds as you turned its pages and the smell of its crisp paper.

His Black Wings

The ignorance of the world often makes people believe that life should be black and white – that you must choose sides – and so the world of colourful gradients goes unadmired.

Rise of the Morningstar

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library..

Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem

At best, the natural good-nature is edged with complaint or has changed into sullenness and gloom. And now and then it blazes forth in veiled but hot anger.

The Souls of Black Folk

Be careful who you call crazy. Some of us think it's a compliment.

Mom's Little Black Book: Godly Advice for the High School Graduate

I wonder if that's how darkness wins, by convincing us to trap it inside ourselves, instead of emptying it out. I don't want it to win.

My Heart and Other Black Holes

Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there's nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression.

My Heart and Other Black Holes

Morals; the pathetic answer to authority Seen two gorillas sharing a banana?

LITTLE BLACK PIECES OF DYNAMITE INSIDE MY SKULL