Quotes of: Black-history Keyword

We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.

Jules Verne

It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The life that Shakespeare was living was the only life he had, and he had to use it to create what he was doing.

Stephen Greenblatt

The most colorful thing in the world is black and white, it contains all colors and at the same time excludes all.

10 Alone

Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.

Anthology of Black Humor

Fire and paper - they do not mix well, n'est pas?" "Perhaps they mix too well.

Hellboy Animated Volume 1: The Black Wedding

..because never in my life have I ever been picked when there was another alternative.

My Heart and Other Black Holes

Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others.

My Heart and Other Black Holes

If rules make a framework for the mind to climb about in, why should the mind not climb right out?

The Mammoth Book of Black Magic

People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was color. All the color he had.

A Man Called Ove

You ask me if I can forgive myself? I can forgive myself for many things.

The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains

I sell black markers on the black market. I am personally responsible for 50% of all truck stop urinal poetry.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

As she conceived it, tea had to be as black as tar and as strong as a sinner's conscience. Or the other way around. As black as that conscience and as strong as tar. And sweet.

Unknown

Consider the road, long and forked as the Devil’s own tongue. Consider the Devil, burning every bridge; Placing in every tree a black bird. In every bird a black thought.

The Wingless

Love is a good thing on a bad day, when the last thing you want is to be cheered up.

Waking Up In Black And White

We have a lot of black Anglo-Saxons. Their skin is black, but their brain is white. When I get real mad at them, I call them 'graham crackers.'

Paul Mooney

There's a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we've arrived where we need to be and nothing else needs to be done and affirmative action needs to be dismantled.

Spike Lee

The President of the United States, if you remove his blackness, then just ask the question, is he a good President or is he a bad President for the United States? Just remove the blackness and make that decision.

Ken Hutcherson

I grew up in a world where the majority of people were black, so that wasn't the defining quality of anyone. When you're describing someone, you don't start out with 'he's black, he's white.'

Lupita Nyong'o

There are two kinds of science: The black science and the white science. The science of weapon production is the black one. Working in this category of science is a great betrayal to humanity!

Mehmet Murat ildan

We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.

Rand Paul

It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations.

Stokely Carmichael