166 quotes found
“The black color is much deeper than to be overwhelmed by grief… Black hides everything within itself in the argument of elegance.”
“I don’t want to be a free nigger; I want to be a free man.”“Don’t we all. Look. Be what you want--- white or black. Choose. But if you choose black, you got to act black, meaning draw your manhood ...”
“I don’t know about black or white magic I just know one type and that is your magic.”
“Those without color—say, dressed in all black—can go about almost unnoticed. Where the rainbow is conspicuous, their darkness acts as a kind of camouflage, masculine by contrast, and allows them to...”
“...you can have a dark heart and be a writer, but you can't have a black one..”
“the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.”
“They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.”
“They were close to the end of the beginning . . .”
“Once again there was the desert, and that only.”
“Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.”
“There was murder, there was rape, there were unspeakable practices, and all of them were for the good, the bloody good, the bloody myth, for the grail, for the Tower.”
“The trap had a ghastly perfection”
“One day you’re going to get arrested, and when you do, don’t call me. I’ll tell the police to lock you up just to teach you a lesson.” Because there were some black parents who’d actually do that, ...”
“... paint in blue and black...sometimes gray - the colors of night - occasionally I surprise you with a mustard yellow, but then, I am a poet ...”
“Vengeance was one hell of a roommate.”
“I believe it’s incredibly important to write against [racial] stereotypes. If we give in and make sure that all black women characters are asexual, gentle, and kind we wind up with another set of s...”
“She never answered. She couldn’t. All she could do was stare, reaching toward him with her gaze alone, pulling him to drown in the sorrow of those depthless black pools.”
“Do your parents know you’re here?' asked the lady at social Services. ‘No,’ I said, ‘but I want to know about children’s homes.’ I had to stand on my toes to see over the reception desk.”
“[O]ur revolt was as much against the traditional black leadership structure as it was against segregation and discrimination.”
“Don’t wait up for me tonight, for the night will be black and white.”
