Quotes of: Black-hat Keyword

One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.

Paul Klee

See, a marriage needs love. And God. And a little money. That's all. The rest you can deal with. It's not about black or white. It's about God and don't let anyone tell you different. All this Jungle fever! Shoot! The Jungle fever goes away, honey, a...

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

It is, then, not simply a question of black power or white power, but of how meaningfully to reenfranchise power. This, as I think Martin Luther King understood, is the real point, the real gift to America, of the struggle of the black people. In acc...

The Hidden Wound

A black shadow dropped down into the circle. It was Bagheera the Black Panther, inky black all over, but with the panther markings showing up in certain lights like the pattern of watered silk. Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his p...

The Jungle Books

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

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