Quotes of: Black-history Keyword

I know I grew up in the time when a young man in a baggy suit and slicked-down hair stood spraddle-legged in the crossroads of history and talked hot and mean about the colored, giving my poor and desperate people a reason to feel superior to somebod...

All Over But the Shoutin'

Listen: I am ideally happy. My happiness is a kind of challenge. As I wander along the streets and the squares and the paths by the canal, absently sensing the lips of dampness through my worn soles, I carry proudly my ineffable happiness. The centur...

Selected Letters, 1940-1977

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

the illusion that power lies within the hands of the common man is more important than legitimate efficiency within the government.

The Black Banner

The dominoes of fate are falling down as we are speaking, and Ferriar knows what will happen when the last one crashes down.

The Black Banner

While parchment may burn and gold may be stained or melted down, the things that are truly important to us will never lose their value.

The Black Banner

the bleakest situations bring out the hospitality in all of us, but it's during the harshest we find out how strong we really are.

The Black Banner

That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.

The Black Cauldron

And this is when I knew I was black for real. This is when I knew black was a city whose walls were constantly under siege....

Bury My Clothes

Using the voice is a physical act, one that first announces the existence of the body of residence and then trumpets its arrival in a public space.

The Black Interior: Essays

Trust no one. You may be working with the last honest cop in Mexicali, but why bet your life on it?

The Black Ice

Slade and sex went together. He was a walking aphrodisiac, from the top of his head, to the black boots on his feet.

Black Moon

Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.

The Black Tulip

There are many movies which come with an attitude of black and white. I am good and you are bad. And there are many movies that are also trying to see the reality as it is or to discover what really is behind the character or events.

Ashraf Barhom

You can wear black at any time. You can wear it at any age. You may wear it for almost any occasion; a 'little black frock' is essential to a woman's wardrobe.

Christian Dior