Quotes of: Black-sheep Keyword

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

There are so many aspects of human sexuality that we're afraid to talk about, because people still don't understand it. It's not just black and white, you know?

Sasha Grey

Although almost every theoretical physicist agrees with my prediction that a black hole should glow like a hot body, it would be very difficult to verify experimentally because the temperature of a macroscopic black hole is so low.

Stephen Hawking

Amongst black people, you have always heard it said that once a black man reaches a certain level, especially if you are an entertainer, you get a white trophy woman. I didn't make that up.

Spike Lee

I'm very proud to be black, but I'm just as much black as I am white. But I want tell stories that everybody can relate to, so I don't care who's opposite me.

Shemar Moore

Sometimes I feel like I’m not solid. I’m hollow. There’s nothing behind my eyes. I’m a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence.

Sylvia Plath

What I really resent most about people sticking labels on you is that it cuts off all the other elements of what you are because it can only deal with black and white; the cartoon.

Siouxsie Sioux