Quotes of: Black Keyword

[A] new finding shows that while in the 1940s, three-quarters of those surveyed claimed to dream in black and white, today, three-quarters say the opposite, that they dream in color. This reversal is attributed to a change in the number of people who...

The Fantasy Film

Claire was struggling through last summer’s diary volume when Myrnin popped in through the portal, wearing a big floppy black hat and a kind of crazy/stylish pimp coat that covered him from neck to ankles, black leather gloves, and a black and silv...

Fade Out

Today even the attitude of the Southern whites toward the blacks is not, as so many assume, in all cases the same; the ignorant Southerner hates the Negro, the workingmen fear his competition, the money-makers wish to use him as a laborer, some of th...

The Souls of Black Folk

I do not dye my hair black so as to be young again and sin again but because people dye their clothes black in mourning, so I have dyed my hair black, mourning for my old age. -

Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems

Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack, all dressed in black, black, black. She has a knife, knife, knife, stuck in her back, back, back. She cannot breathe, breathe, breathe. She cannot cry, cry, cry. Thats why she begs, begs, begs. She begs to die, die ,die..

White Is for Magic

It's time for a new National Anthem. America is divided into two definite divisions. The easy thing to cop out with is sayin' black and white. You can see a black person. But now to get down to the nitty-gritty, it's getting' to be old and young - no...

Jimi Hendrix

[looking at the tapestry with the Black family tree] Sirius Black: I hated the lot of them. My parents, with their pure-blood mania... my repulsive cousin, Bellatrix Lestrange... [he points to a scorched hole in the tapestry over his name] Sirius Bla...

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Sirius Black: If anyone's got a right to know it's Harry. If it wasn't for him we wouldn't even know Voldemort was back! He's not a child, Molly! Mrs. Weasley: He's not an adult either! He's not James, Sirius. Sirius Black: He's not your son. Mrs. We...

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

[after being beaten by the Man in Black] Inigo Montoya: Kill me quickly. Man in Black: I would sooner destroy a stained glass window than an artist like yourself. However, since I can't have you follow me either... [knocks him out] Man in Black: Plea...

The Princess Bride

Buttercup: You're the Dread Pirate Roberts, admit it! Man in Black: With pride. What can I do for you? Buttercup: You can die slowly, cut into a thousand pieces. Man in Black: Tsk, tsk. That's hardly complementary, Highness. Why loose your venom on m...

The Princess Bride

Jack Sparrow: I know those cannons. It's the Pearl. Man in Jail: The Black Pearl? I've heard stories. She's been preying on ships and settlements for near ten years. Never leaves any survivors. Jack Sparrow: No survivors? Then where do the stories co...

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Price controls almost invariably produce black markets, where prices are not only higher than the legally permitted prices, but also higher than they would be in a free market, since the legal risks must also be compensated. While small-scale black m...

Thomas Sowell

I had choosen the path of the black sheep rather than that of the unicorns and puppies.

Cutting Class

When your authority comes straight from God, shit always turns ugly.

Caine Black Knife

God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color.

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

They were rebellious through their artistic expression and their uplifting spirits

The Black Banner

Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream.

The Black Cat

You are human and mortal; we are the sum of our weak moments and our strong.

The Black Gryphon

An army is a miniature of the society which produces it.

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

When I look into the crowd, I see young and old, black and white - it's amazing that I'm able to connect with so many different kinds of people.

Patti LaBelle

There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.

Pat Oliphant