Quotes of: Black-magic Keyword

Dear Non-American Black, when you make the choice to come to America, you become black. Stop arguing. Stop saying I'm Jamaican or I'm Ghanaian. America doesn't care.

Americanah

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

You are the posterity of your family. You are either continuing the progression or regression of your ancestors.

The Promise of Being Black: The Conversation We Need to Have

We were divided by color. Not black and white, but colour/color. She was British, and I was honoured to engage her in a spelling debate.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Black clothing makes me look skinnier. If I wear all black at night, and turn out the lights, I look so skinny that I disappear.

This Book Has No Title

But in the earlier hours, or so I have read, they still have got their daylight minds. It takes the midnight mind to do the black deed to the black man.

The Voice at the Back Door

[God is] the One who in absolute freedom loves absolutely.

Young, Restless, No Longer Reformed: Black Holes, Love, and a Journey in and Out of Calvinism

A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks what's best fo...

Cornel West

The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up.

Snowy Tower: Parzival and the Wet Black Branch of Language

I don’t want to go home yet.” He twisted at the waist and patted the seat behind him. “Take a walk on the wild side with me.

Her Knight in Black Leather

Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence.

Linda Chavez

My mother was a member of the Cape Coloured community. 'Coloured' is the South African word for the half-caste community that was a by-product of the early contact between black and white.

Peter Abrahams

And I might add the confidence with which distracted persons do oftentimes, when they are awake, think, they see black fiends in places, where there is no black object in sight without them.

Robert Boyle

Many people believe that determining who is 'black' is rather easy, a task simplified by the administration of the one-drop rule. Under the one-drop rule, any discernible African ancestry stamps a person as 'black.'

Randall Kennedy