Quotes of: Black-history Keyword

Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?...He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage...

Coal Black Horse

The tragedy of Dionysus: Wear a black robe at night, and white you’ll wear by morning; but wear a purple robe to the midnight feast, and when you wake you’ll dress in black to mourn your soul deceased.

Crepuscule

When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.

Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

It [the Harlem Renaissance] was a time of black individualism, a time marked by a vast array of characters whose uniqueness challenged the traditional inability of white Americans to differentiate between blacks.

Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance

People decide how to live their own lives! A scum bastard doesn't have the right to chain anyone down!" -Sven to Torneo

Black Cat: Creed, Vol. 2

Even though we don't admit it, every single one of us aspires to be like somebody, whether they live in the world today, within the bard's lyrics, or on the pages in the Library

The Black Banner

Milcas raced out his door, anxious to find the answer to this riddle and discover the source of hope for a Roegan in Fargranther; the propellant of an unheard of, forgotten, impossible, and by all accounts, damned idea.

The Black Banner

Evil is relative…You can’t hang a sign on it. You can’t touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger.

The Black Company

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